• Read articles on climate change, climate justice and global environmental issues, and identify cause and effect.
• Extract key information from an interview with a meteorologist and use weather expressions accurately.
• Build compound nouns and define vocabulary from context.

🌳 Concept tree

├── Unit overview

│ ├── Learning outcomes

│ └── The unit's five lessons

│ ├── Main ideas and cause-effect chains

│ ├── Idioms of blame and responsibility

│ └── Compound nouns

│ ├── Weather expressions

│ └── Weather vocabulary

│ ├── The two mechanisms of sea-level rise

│ └── Adaptation strategies

└── Vocabulary bank and exam traps

Key facts from the article

• Global sea level in 2016 was about 82 mm higher than the 1983 average.
• Projections suggest a rise of 0.2 to 2 metres by 2100.
• Coastal flooding has increased in many regions compared with the mid-20th century.
• An estimated 275 million people live in low-lying coastal zones exposed to floods, and most of the world's megacities are in coastal areas.

1. Sea-level rise projections for 2100 range from 0.2 to 2 metres. → T
2. Thermal expansion of seawater is the only cause of rising sea levels. → F (there are two linked mechanisms)
3. Most of the world's largest cities are far from coastal areas. → F
4. Amphibious architecture is one example of an adaptation strategy. → T
5. Climate migration could lead to population displacement. → T