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All right. Thank you, Maboula. Nice presentation. It was quite effective for your purpose, and you showed that you can construct a discourse around your topic and your presentation.

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I see there's been some effort to use interesting vocabulary, and there's a few grammar things here and there that are remarkable as well, or noticeable.

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and so the structure is good I like the structure I will just say that the title

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maybe it's a bit too generic because you have no clue what your presentation is

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going to be about if you you know if you take it out of the context of the forum

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and so on we wouldn't know so maybe I understand that you want to create

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expectations with that title what's next and you want to you want to make us

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think about it and so on. But maybe I would suggest introducing some of the key

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weights in there. Is water next? Are oceans next? And then it would give us, I

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think, a better clue. We would know that you are talking about expectations and so on, but we would also know what the core of the subject is.

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For example, are oceans next? It's good that you include this trigger about the

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microplastic away being the most looked at one. Then the structure, you give the

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structure of your talk, talking about that in a minute, you walk us through your

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presentation very nicely, you explain different flows over there, so that is

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good, and also your conclusion is there, but I think we could have worked out

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something more powerful there. So let me go over the whole presentation and

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I'll point out some of the problems there and talk about these other

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issues as well. As to the problems, there is something that I want to emphasize

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which is thought groups. Once again, sometimes you are not mispronouncing

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words as such, but the breakout of the thoughts is not the most appropriate one.

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So if you make pauses in between the components of the thought group, the idea,

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then they kind of become unrelated.

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So this is something that we need to avoid.

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We need to keep together those words that belong to a single idea.

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So let's go ahead.

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What's next?

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That's the question that comes to my mind when thinking about human beings' actions

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and its effects on the Earth and its environment.

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We have two little examples over there, okay?

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Not the most noticeable ones, but they're there.

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This is the first thing that comes to my mind.

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You notice you made a little pause over there.

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This is the first thing that comes to my mind.

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And it actually actually, like,

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it's the first thing that comes to my mind.

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Comes to my mind.

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The first thing that comes to my mind.

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Comes to my mind should be all together, okay?

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and then human beings actions actually should be human beings actions you need

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to shh to bracket to bracket it all together within your pronunciation okay

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thought groups I'll make a link available to you to check more on this

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Recently microplasticos was selected as the word of the year in our country and

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and it was a powerful trigger for this presentation.

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Doing some searching related to pollution, I found some worrying facts that I would like to share.

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This is kind of a minor thing, worrying.

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We need to, it's not that important, but it actually sounds much better when you do it.

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You need to work a little bit on the ending of words, okay?

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The G is not fully pronounced, but you need to be able to hear it.

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Worrying. Worrying. Okay. It's my new thing. So you. I will expose some worrying facts.

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Not quite. Expose is something that we use to bring something to the light that was hidden.

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so you expose a corruption case or you expose or you get exposed to like you

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know when when you were hiding and then somebody brings the attention to you you

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feel exposed but what you're going to do is to explain something about those

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sense, what is happening with wildlife, the alarming global warming, and other

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issues to be aware of. Okay, so other issues that should be aware of, that we

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should be aware of. It's a nice structure, the 2b2 that you're using there, but

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that's, I mean, yes, you can use it, but I think it would relate better to your

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audience, because here you have a definite audience, so it's better to use,

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sometimes to use the personal constructions than than the personal ones

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okay yeah so you say these are other issues to keep in mind or these are other

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issues to be aware of that's fine but probably relates better if you use the

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personal construction there so these are there's other issues that we should be

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aware of and again very minor thing okay and I note is that that usage of TV

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tools so that comes in positive now as to the way that you produce your that you

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that you deliver your structure because this is basically the structure of your

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talk there's a number of points which are clearly defined over there I just

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think that you could do a better job combining combining your different

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topics into into a point instead of just reading and giving them in isolation

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something like an encompassing statement maybe and this is just an example so so

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what's next well I'm trying to show you how oceans or I'm trying to prove how

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oceans are getting cluttered. So yes, they're getting cluttered and this is

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damaging wildlife and even it's producing a whole degradation of

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water mass around the world. What I mean by this is that I took some of the

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elements, oceans, and maybe gave just some side information of it, that they

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are getting cluttered. You would say maybe you're getting ahead. Well, but you

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know, it's a mix of keeping the expectation and giving something

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away so that you can

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gradually build up your presentation

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so it's kind of the same thing as with the title

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what's happening with the ocean, what about wildlife

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the questions are fine but you need to be

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introducing

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your questions should be leading

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to your answer to make it

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just gorgeous

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and then the last two

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topics over there, if you can find something

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in common which is

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water mass, basically I think it's

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it's the way that water matter is being degraded so you can just put those two

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together into one single statement. So you are basically showing us how oceans

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are getting cluttered and thus damaging wildlife and reducing the whole

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degradation of water matter around the world. Just an idea.

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Other issues to be aware of. The first is related to oceans. The raw deal is that we are

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consuming and littering known by degradable materials like plastics.

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Or trusses taking downstream from rivers into the ocean where currents sweep it to the closest

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patch.

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A rabbit patch is a popular name for the concentration of marine debris in the ocean.

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Debris is a very nice word and you are also explaining a top word that is relevant, so

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well done.

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five big garbage patches in our oceans the biggest is the great pacific ocean garbage patch

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and it is at least the size of portugal spain and france together and it is about 10 meters

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deep and wages at least 100 i think there's a problem with this where i understood wages

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i think you mean ways this is kind of a difficult verb sometimes for for us because we're used to

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to the word, to the noun, wait. But remember that the verb is to weigh. Weigh. So it weighs,

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yeah, suena como camino, yes, weighs. So it weighs ten tons, or whatever it is. Weighs.

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Weigh. Alright. Ten million tons. Those plastic items break into tiny particles that are eaten

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by fish, birds, marine mammals. Alright, you're using the passive voice over there, so that's

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and can rupture their organs or cause them starvation.

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But the most fundamental issue is caused by our famous

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microplasticos or microplastics

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which near the surface...

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Yeah, our famous microplastics are near the

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surface. Now the thing with this word is that

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when it works as a suffix, it's not pronounced

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fully okay it's like the reduced pronunciation so look at this surface

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surface surface surface again it's like a suffix here it's not stressed and not

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the suffix but it's not stressed okay these tresses in the first syllable so

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when this when this compound it's not stressed it's pronounced fists surface

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Surface. There are not actually that many words, but this is another quite common one.

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Preface.

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Preface. The surface.

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Let's go on.

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The ocean blocks sunlight from reaching Placton and other below.

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And we know that without Placton...

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I think you missed the S there. Blocks. But I wasn't quite sure.

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the entire marine ecosystem will collapse bigger mammals and marine life

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get constricted by pieces of plastic waste or die due to starving unable to

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eat like the turtle or the seal you can see and can you see the carcass of the

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baby bird that has... The carcass. The carcass is a very nice word. It's a very powerful

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picture. Very nice example. It's carcass. Carcass. Carcass. It is full of plastic particles.

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A single plastic bag can kill over 100 dolphins. There you go. One more time. This is the thought

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group thing a single plastic bag can kill over 100 dolphins you see how the 100 dolphins is

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like detached and it should be they should be in the same thought group they should be pronounced

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together not marked out should be bracketed in single plastic bag can kill over 100 dolphins

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over 100 dolphins so needless to say that it is an alarming issue all right so there's nice

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linking and list of say and so on. But even more astonishing is the difficult

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situation of wildlife. The world is facing the first mass extinction since

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the dinosaurs. Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years according

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what WWF organization says. According to what the WWF organization says.

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according to. The current rate of extinction is about 100 times faster than

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what is considered normal. The fastest decline among the animal populations

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were found in French water ecosystems. We know that rivers are the bottom of the

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system and whatever happens on the land it all ends up in the rivers. You have to

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careful here with uh double uh subjects whatever happens

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so whatever happens uh whatever happens what is it whatever happens on the land

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ends up in the river you know it's there was uh was like a double subject but let me play it back

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for a second we're found in friends water ecosystems we know that rivers are the bottom

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of the system and whatever happens on the land it all ends up in the rivers so whatever happens in

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the land ends up on the rivers okay the it is superfluous it's like a double subject

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uh we don't do it we sometimes do it when we speak but there should be like an intended course

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it should be marked out as a different sentence that was a next kind of so

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whatever happens on the land well you know it all ends up in the rivers in

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that way you could have it but if you actually construct it as one single

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sentence as one single utterance of it so to say there should not be it there

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for example tens of billions of effluent are dumped in the Ganges in India every

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year. Tens of billions of what? I couldn't get that word. I don't know. Did you say

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affluence? Did you mean tributaries? I don't know. I couldn't catch that word.

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damage is not inevitable but inevitable a consequence of the way we choose to

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same thing here okay so consequence consequence consequence

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yeah we need to notice that stress lies on the first few syllables in English

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much more commonly than in Spanish the next difficult to consider is global

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warming the next there you are mistaken and adjective for the noun okay so the

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next difficulty difficulty and again it's another example of a word which

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with the stress at the beginning, which is kind of difficult for us, we tend to forget that.

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So, inevitable, consequence, difficulty.

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Here, this is an example of how prefixes are not usually stressed.

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So, these two, consequence and difficulty, are examples of where it's with the stress in the first syllable.

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Inevitable is an example of how prefixes are usually not stressed.

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And ratio retreat.

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Global warming is the term that is used for the gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans.

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Kind of the same thing here, the Earth's atmosphere.

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Do you notice how there is a very little pause over there?

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In this case, it's not a big problem as in some of the other examples, but it is showing a tendency, okay?

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So it's the Earth's atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere.

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Not the Earth's atmosphere.

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And it produces changes

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like rising sea levels due to the melting of the polar ice caps and

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the increase in the severity of storms and other weather events.

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The increase in severity of these storms and other weather events, and other, of a different

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It's not one more, it's like a different kind.

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Volumes of carbon dioxide and another greenhouse gases released by human activities are believed

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to be the primary sources of global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years.

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And what can we say?

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I mean, nice, they are believed to be, they are believed to be this passive-infinitive

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construction.

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There is one more thing about intonation or stress in this case that I want to highlight

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And it's these words, okay?

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You were mentioning greenhouse effects, okay?

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Or gases or whatever it is.

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When we have a compound like this,

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the stress, again, because it's a noun,

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comes here, greenhouse.

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Greenhouse.

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Because it's a full compound noun.

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Greenhouse.

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So it's a greenhouse effect.

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Now, if you were to pronounce,

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si fueras a hablar de una casa verde,

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then it could be a green house.

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Pero como es green house, como un nombre en sí mismo,

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or green house effect being used as an adjective,

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el estrés no está en el mismo sitio, el acento no está en el mismo sitio.

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Esto es lo que quiero señalar, ¿ok?

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So, si la palabra central es house, porque me estás hablando de una casa,

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entonces sí es the green house is very beautiful.

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The green house is very, very beautiful.

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If you are talking to me about greenhouse as a name in itself, even if you use it as an adjective for gases,

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then it is a greenhouse effect, the stress goes to the beginning and this is a general norm for composting.

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The dehydration of land, as we see in these pictures, or the indiscriminate logging and so on.

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indiscriminate now indiscriminate now pay attention all the endings of adjectives

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like this they are always pronounced like this indiscriminate indiscriminate

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as never before in the non-human history we are facing an increasing amount of

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issues that made me think about and ask will humans be able to fix the world to

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solve all these problems as to restore the natural and proper equilibrium that

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will allow us to live happily all right so that was like your ending and the

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ending is there the conclusion is there it's nice to have your ending with

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questions an open question I just think that you should mark it out you should

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make it clear, much more clear to us that you've reached your conclusion, okay?

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So, just say it. So, finally, or so, to conclude, or so, a final thought, my final

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thought is, this all makes me think about blah blah blah, and ask, actually it

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should be, it all makes me think whether this is going to be blah blah blah,

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Because what follows is, in your case, it was a clause with an active verb.

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It was not a noun.

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So, instead of using about, which is a preposition, we should use whether, which is a conjunction.

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It makes me think whether she will come.

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And it makes me think about her coming.

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But makes me think about her, makes me think about she will come.

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That doesn't work.

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You see what I mean?

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So, if what follows THINK is a noun, then you use a preposition, about.

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If what follows is a cause, then you use whether.

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Think whether we would be able to cope with this.

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Actually, to make your conclusion a bit more powerful,

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I could probably mark it out with a clip sentence of some form, for example.

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So, finally, to me the question that remains to be answered is

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will we be able to cope with blah blah blah blah blah and then you you're taking that

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opportunity to to use some powerful grammar structures ah thank you very nice or no