Climate Change Vocabulary

Enter the following vocabulary words into the search box at Macmillan Dictionary and answer
the questions below.
Example:
Planet
1. What part of speech is the word escape?
Verb
2. Listen to the pronunciation of escape. How many syllables do you hear?
Two
3. Click on Word Forms. What is the past tense of the word escape?
Escaped
4. Write the definition of escape in your own words. (You can click on any word in the
definition to read its meaning.)
To get away from danger
5.

Click on Other entries for this word. Click on one of the entries, such as fire escape.
Write the definition in your own words.
Stairs on the outside of a building, often below a window where a person
can escape if there is a fire in the building.

Reduce
1. What part of speech is the word reduce?
2. Listen to the pronunciation of reduce. How many syllables do you hear? Is the stress on
the first or last syllable?
3. Read the definition of reduce then answer the question. If I want to reduce something
that means I want to make it smaller or bigger?
Debate
1. Listen to the pronunciation of the word debate. Repeat the word after you hear it. Is the
b in debate easy to pronounce?
2. What is a synonym for the word debate?
3. Scroll down to Phrases. What is the meaning of open for debate?

Percent
1. Is percent an adjective or a noun?
2. Read the definition of percent. Then use the word percent in your own sentence.
3. Click on Other entries for this word. What does it mean to give a hundred percent?
Atmosphere
1. Listen to the pronunciation of atmosphere. How many syllables do you hear?
2. What is a synonym for the word atmosphere?
3. Read definitions 1 and 2. What is the difference in meaning between the two definitions?
Global
1. What part of speech is the word global?
2. What is a synonym for the word global?
3. Read the definitions and the sample sentences of the word global. Write your own
sentence using the word global.
Attention
1. Listen to the word attention. How many syllables do you hear?
2. Read definitions 1 and 2 of the word attention. Is the word attention a countable or
uncountable noun?
3. Scroll down to Phrases. What does pay attention mean?
International
1. Listen to the pronunciation of the word international. How many syllables do you hear?
2. What part of speech is the word international?
3. Read the definition of the word international. When someone uses the word
international, are they talking about something inside, outside or between countries?

Unite
1. What part of speech is the word unite?
2. Click on Word Forms. How many word forms are given for the word unite?
3. Read the definition of the word unite.
4. There is another word that uses the same letters that are in unite. Except the i and the
t are switched.
a. unite untie
5. Look up the word untie. Listen to the pronunciation. Read the definition. What does it
mean?