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From the Ted Talk by Huma Yusuf: A new social contract for global climate justice

Unscramble the Blue Letters


BG: Now, I want just to put an image in the mind of ppoele here. One of our conversations, you told me a story about people in flooded aeras going around in small btaos and hitting structures under water. Tell us about that.

HY: Yes, you saw the pictures that I started with. And I’ve been seeing those, and I haven’t vtsiied myself the most badly affected areas. And it was only when I received a video from a friend of mine who was out there reporting in the field, which showed her on a boat going through what I thought was a lake, and then they start bumping up against things -- and you realize that it’s the top of electricity pylons, and it's the top of school buildings and it's the top of potrel stations with the little, you know, aseitvdring symbol -- that I really understood that my country is submerged. It is truly underwater. And I don't know how you come back from that.

Open Cloze


BG: Now, I want just to put an image in the mind of ______ here. One of our conversations, you told me a story about people in flooded _____ going around in small _____ and hitting structures under water. Tell us about that.

HY: Yes, you saw the pictures that I started with. And I’ve been seeing those, and I haven’t _______ myself the most badly affected areas. And it was only when I received a video from a friend of mine who was out there reporting in the field, which showed her on a boat going through what I thought was a lake, and then they start bumping up against things -- and you realize that it’s the top of electricity pylons, and it's the top of school buildings and it's the top of ______ stations with the little, you know, ___________ symbol -- that I really understood that my country is submerged. It is truly underwater. And I don't know how you come back from that.

Solution


  1. people
  2. visited
  3. petrol
  4. areas
  5. advertising
  6. boats

Original Text


BG: Now, I want just to put an image in the mind of people here. One of our conversations, you told me a story about people in flooded areas going around in small boats and hitting structures under water. Tell us about that.

HY: Yes, you saw the pictures that I started with. And I’ve been seeing those, and I haven’t visited myself the most badly affected areas. And it was only when I received a video from a friend of mine who was out there reporting in the field, which showed her on a boat going through what I thought was a lake, and then they start bumping up against things -- and you realize that it’s the top of electricity pylons, and it's the top of school buildings and it's the top of petrol stations with the little, you know, advertising symbol -- that I really understood that my country is submerged. It is truly underwater. And I don't know how you come back from that.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
developing countries 6
developed countries 3
global greenhouse 2
climate change 2
global north 2
global south 2
climate disasters 2
climate justice 2
bad behavior 2


Important Words


  1. advertising
  2. affected
  3. areas
  4. badly
  5. boat
  6. boats
  7. buildings
  8. bumping
  9. conversations
  10. country
  11. electricity
  12. field
  13. flooded
  14. friend
  15. hitting
  16. image
  17. lake
  18. mind
  19. people
  20. petrol
  21. pictures
  22. put
  23. pylons
  24. realize
  25. received
  26. reporting
  27. school
  28. showed
  29. small
  30. start
  31. started
  32. stations
  33. story
  34. structures
  35. submerged
  36. symbol
  37. thought
  38. told
  39. top
  40. understood
  41. underwater
  42. video
  43. visited
  44. water