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From the Ted Talk by TED-Ed: A brief history of plastic

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Instead, plastics were pushed into svicere in World War Two. During the war, plastic pdoitucron in the United stetas quadrupled. slrdeois wore new pisltac helmet liners and water-resistant vinyl raincoats. Pilots sat in cockpits made of plexiglass, a shatterproof plastic, and relied on parachutes made of resilient nylon.

Afterwards, plastic manufacturing companies that had srnpug up during wartime turned their attention to consumer pctudors. Plastics began to rcpalee other materials like wood, glass, and fabric in furniture, clothing, shoes, televisions, and radios. Versatile plastics opened up possibilities for packaging— mainly designed to keep food and other products fserh for longer. Suddenly, there were plastic garbage bags, stretchy plastic wrap, sezelqbaue plastic bottles, takeaway cartons, and plastic containers for furit, vegetables, and meat.

Open Cloze


Instead, plastics were pushed into _______ in World War Two. During the war, plastic __________ in the United ______ quadrupled. ________ wore new _______ helmet liners and water-resistant vinyl raincoats. Pilots sat in cockpits made of plexiglass, a shatterproof plastic, and relied on parachutes made of resilient nylon.

Afterwards, plastic manufacturing companies that had ______ up during wartime turned their attention to consumer ________. Plastics began to _______ other materials like wood, glass, and fabric in furniture, clothing, shoes, televisions, and radios. Versatile plastics opened up possibilities for packaging— mainly designed to keep food and other products _____ for longer. Suddenly, there were plastic garbage bags, stretchy plastic wrap, __________ plastic bottles, takeaway cartons, and plastic containers for _____, vegetables, and meat.

Solution


  1. soldiers
  2. replace
  3. fruit
  4. states
  5. squeezable
  6. plastic
  7. fresh
  8. service
  9. production
  10. sprung
  11. products

Original Text


Instead, plastics were pushed into service in World War Two. During the war, plastic production in the United States quadrupled. Soldiers wore new plastic helmet liners and water-resistant vinyl raincoats. Pilots sat in cockpits made of plexiglass, a shatterproof plastic, and relied on parachutes made of resilient nylon.

Afterwards, plastic manufacturing companies that had sprung up during wartime turned their attention to consumer products. Plastics began to replace other materials like wood, glass, and fabric in furniture, clothing, shoes, televisions, and radios. Versatile plastics opened up possibilities for packaging— mainly designed to keep food and other products fresh for longer. Suddenly, there were plastic garbage bags, stretchy plastic wrap, squeezable plastic bottles, takeaway cartons, and plastic containers for fruit, vegetables, and meat.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. attention
  2. bags
  3. began
  4. bottles
  5. cartons
  6. clothing
  7. cockpits
  8. companies
  9. consumer
  10. containers
  11. designed
  12. fabric
  13. food
  14. fresh
  15. fruit
  16. furniture
  17. garbage
  18. glass
  19. helmet
  20. liners
  21. longer
  22. manufacturing
  23. materials
  24. meat
  25. nylon
  26. opened
  27. parachutes
  28. pilots
  29. plastic
  30. plastics
  31. plexiglass
  32. possibilities
  33. production
  34. products
  35. pushed
  36. quadrupled
  37. radios
  38. raincoats
  39. relied
  40. replace
  41. resilient
  42. sat
  43. service
  44. shatterproof
  45. shoes
  46. soldiers
  47. sprung
  48. squeezable
  49. states
  50. stretchy
  51. suddenly
  52. takeaway
  53. televisions
  54. turned
  55. united
  56. vegetables
  57. versatile
  58. vinyl
  59. war
  60. wartime
  61. wood
  62. wore
  63. world
  64. wrap