Passwords : Courses 7-8 - Practice book

environment /in'vaiaranmant/, environments 1 Someone's environment is all the circumstances, people, things, and events around them that influence their life, e.g. A child can easily adjust to changes in its environment. Could the college provide a stimulating environment? It was cruel to plunge her into such a totally alien environment and culture. ...Are the natural surroundings which we all heredity. 2. At the particular surroundings in which they live or exist, especially a region that has particular characteristics, is what people describe as an environment, e.g. desert environments. But our natural habitat may be in constant need of restoration. ...our natural environment. She did not have total mastery over her environment and set over us ... 3. The environment is the natural world of land, sea, air, plants, and animals that exists around towns and cities. ...the growing threat, pollution to the environment....the Secretary of State for the Environment.

environmental /in, vaiara'mental/ adj Environmental concerns are concerns about the natural world in its relation to people, especially the group Greenpeace. He is one of the environmental and all kinds of pollution. The way in which we use the environment badly. So conscious of the need to protect the environment. Environmentalists are campaigning to persuade countries to limit changes in the earth. Coral reefs are sensitive to environmental change. ...environmental issues. ...environmental energy. ...environmental benefits. environment, environmentally, environmentalist, environmentalists. An environmentalist is a person who wants to protect and preserve the natural environment, e.g. by preventing pollution and destroying trees. Environmentalists have been protesting about the destruction of Amazon rain forests.

world /wsrld/, worlds. 1 The world is the planet that we live on. He attempted to sail round the world....in many parts of the world....one of the most famous artists in the world...also used to refer to the people who live on this planet. The famine in Ethiopia has shocked the world... used before a noun, e.g. the growth in world population...the "World" Basketball Championships...war on a world scale...world peace. 2 The world also refers to all the societies, institutions, and ways of life of people living on this planet. They are content for the world to stay as it is, poverty, pain, and everything. We are now moving forward into a world which will be more and more dominated by energy crises.

PASSWORDS TEXTBOOK PRACTICE BOOK KEY TAPES GUIDE TESTS LUKION KURSSIT 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.1 2.2 2.3 3.1 3.2 3.3 4 5 6 7 8 Eeva-Liisa Pitkänen Leena Säteri Sirkka-Liisa Pitkänen Paul Westlake Eero Lehtonen