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Notice contrasting ideas

climate change is the most important challenge facing the world today so you could think of that's the answer a it's the most important challenge facing the world today but that...

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climate change is the most important

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challenge facing the world today

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so you could think of that's the answer

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a

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it's the most important challenge facing

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the world today but that's a bit too

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obvious isn't it that if you're just

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repeating exactly the same words you can

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probably eliminate that option

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because what the speaker actually said

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if you go back further

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that i don't agree and that's the those

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are the key words here that's that's

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saying it's the opposite of what he's

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going to say so i don't agree with

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experts who

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repeatedly insist on the theory that the

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climate change

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is the most important challenge facing

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the world today

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that's quite a simple basic example and

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in in the real exam it may be a little

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bit more

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complex and and complicated than that

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but you can see that if you have the

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same words

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in the listening as in the question it's

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probably not the answer

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so be very careful with that don't be

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easily tricked

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and my last tip today tip number six is

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stay

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focused now this is really a tip i give

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for the whole exam

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because it's very important to stay

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focused always

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but it's particularly important in the

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listening

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because if you get distracted if you

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start thinking about

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the football match at the weekend or

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what you're going to have for dinner

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you're going to miss something and

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although you get two chances

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