What peculiarity of articulation do the stressed vowels in the following words (boxes 1 and 2) have in common? — What are the vowels that have this peculiarity?

1 2

value that (in 'that impact has reached the point of crisis')

want impact

wild environmental

animals toxic

gone like

precisely actual

because gradually

attitude 1

dramatic lives

technology crisis

acid point

——— 3.4. Words and Word-Combinations ——

3.4.1. Explain the meanings of the words below (boxes 1 and 2), in which they occur in the text (use the explanatory dictionary for this purpose):

stretch wilderness

moor aware

dismiss devastating

desolate impact

recently decade

precisely advance (n)

remote environmental

infinitely tempt

precious excessively

alarmist waste (n)

gradually expert

debate beneath

extraordinary witness

3 4.2. Comment on the following elements of the text:

the ozone layer marine pollution toxic waste acid rain global warming

— Use 'Longman Dictionary of the English Language and Culture' and 'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' for that purpose.

Test yourself.

— Read the following and guess what English word is explained in this way (the explanations come from 'Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English' and the 'Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English'.

— Write the words and transcribe them.

1) to refuse to consider someone's idea, opinion, etc. without thinking carefully about it;

2) an area of land or water, especially one that is long and narrow;

3) left alone, uninhabited, unfit to live in, without trees or any living things or much activity;

4) exactly; the word is used to emphasize that something is completely true or correct;

5) far away or off in space or time; distant, far from towns;

6) of great non-material worth; valuable and important to be used with care;

7) a large area of land that has never been cultivated, developed of farmed;

8) destroying or badly damaging something;

9) the effect or influence that an event, situation, etc. has on someone or something;

10) clever and unusual, artful;

11) a period of ten years;

12) making people unnecessarily worried about dangers that do not exist.

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