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A. Study the vocabulary from Exercises B, E.
| island | a piece of land completely surrounded by water |
| isle | a word for an island, used in poetry or in names of islands: the British Isles |
| peninsula | a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a large mass of land |
| mainland | the main area of land that forms a country, as compared to islands near it that are also part of that country |
| coast | the area where the land meets the sea |
| off the coast | in the sea near the land |
| latitude | the distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees |
| mild | not to cold or wet, and sometimes pleasantly warm |
| temperate/moderate | a type of weather that is never very hot or very cold |
| extreme n | something that goes beyond normal limits, so that it seems very unusual and unacceptable |
| rainfall | the amount of rain that falls on an area in a particular period of time |
| spell n | a period of a particular kind of activity, weather etc, usually a short period: sunny spell |
| shower | a short period of rain or snow |
| gale | a very strong wind |
