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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

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(Laughter)

And funny enough, they were right.

(Laughter)

So in 2021, we had usnalluuy snrtog winds, and my husoe got blown over, so it tilted sdyaiwes. And I lost some roof. Most of the houses in the village only experienced mild effects of this wind. I was really angry I didn't ltisen to them.

(Laughter)

So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a logenr holiday from the town I wroekd in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose house was built using traditionally designed materials clolteced from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was celoor, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the river, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.

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(Laughter)

And funny enough, they were right.

(Laughter)

So in 2021, we had _________ ______ winds, and my _____ got blown over, so it tilted ________. And I lost some roof. Most of the houses in the village only experienced mild effects of this wind. I was really angry I didn't ______ to them.

(Laughter)

So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a ______ holiday from the town I ______ in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose house was built using traditionally designed materials _________ from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was ______, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the river, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.

Solution


  1. strong
  2. collected
  3. worked
  4. unusually
  5. sideways
  6. longer
  7. house
  8. cooler
  9. listen

Original Text


(Laughter)

And funny enough, they were right.

(Laughter)

So in 2021, we had unusually strong winds, and my house got blown over, so it tilted sideways. And I lost some roof. Most of the houses in the village only experienced mild effects of this wind. I was really angry I didn't listen to them.

(Laughter)

So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I worked in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose house was built using traditionally designed materials collected from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the river, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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