| 1. large environmental organisation
| a. paid-up members
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| 2. complaints about unfair treatment
| b. Friends of the Earth
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| 3. with plenty of financial support
| c. close-knit
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| 4. manufactures
| d. deputations
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| 5. to request support from
| e. fragmented
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| 6. concentrated in one central organisation
| f. producers
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| 7. with close ties to each other
| g. to counter
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| 8. people who use / buy products
| h. to appeal to
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| 9. separate, not centralised
| I. Child Poverty Action Group
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| 10. to oppose
| j. well-funded
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| 11. large organisation helping people
| k. centralised
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| 12. people sent to speak for a group
| l. consumers
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| 13. people who have paid their membership fees, committed members
| m. grievances
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Look through the texts again and find three examples of the following.
| Nouns denoting people
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| Adjectives that can be used to describe social organisations
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| Verbs that can have a strong political association
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Find words from the texts formed from the same roots as the words in the box, then match them with their definitions a-h.
| 1. commerce
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| a. person standing for the interests of a group
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| 2. mass-produced
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| b. person signing a formal request
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| 3. constituency
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| c. made in large quantities
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| 4. Petitioner
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| d. to make laws
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| 5. consumption
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| e. area represented by one MP
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| 6. pressurise
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| f. to try to force someone to do something
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| 7. legislate
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| g. amount purchased, used or eaten
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| 8. representative
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| h. all the activities associated with business
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