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From the Ted Talk by Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(lehatugr)

but over here ... I'm standing at pinched. singularly.tutorial.

But we haven't just done this in English. We thought it was essential that people should be able to use this sytesm in their own lngguaae. So far, we've built it into 14 languages, including French, Swahili and Arabic, and we're working on more now, like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.

But this idea can do a lot more than just get my musicians to their gigs on time. If the 75 pcenert of countries that struggle with rielalbe addressing started using three-word addresses, there's a sactk of far more important applications. In Durban, South Africa, an NGO called geaatwy Health have distributed 11,000 three-word address signs to their community, so the pregnant mothers, when they go into labor, can call the emergency sreicevs and tell them exactly where to pick them up from, because otherwise, the acnmleabus have often taken hours to find them. In Mongolia, the nonaatil Post Service have adopted the system and are now doing deliveries to many people's hsoeus for the first time. The UN are using it to geotag photos in disaster zones so they can deliver aid to exactly the right place. Even Domino's pzzia are using it in the Caribbean, because they haven't been able to find customers' homes, but they really want to get their pizza to them while its still hot.

Open Cloze


(________)

but over here ... I'm standing at pinched. singularly.tutorial.

But we haven't just done this in English. We thought it was essential that people should be able to use this ______ in their own ________. So far, we've built it into 14 languages, including French, Swahili and Arabic, and we're working on more now, like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.

But this idea can do a lot more than just get my musicians to their gigs on time. If the 75 _______ of countries that struggle with ________ addressing started using three-word addresses, there's a _____ of far more important applications. In Durban, South Africa, an NGO called _______ Health have distributed 11,000 three-word address signs to their community, so the pregnant mothers, when they go into labor, can call the emergency ________ and tell them exactly where to pick them up from, because otherwise, the __________ have often taken hours to find them. In Mongolia, the ________ Post Service have adopted the system and are now doing deliveries to many people's ______ for the first time. The UN are using it to geotag photos in disaster zones so they can deliver aid to exactly the right place. Even Domino's _____ are using it in the Caribbean, because they haven't been able to find customers' homes, but they really want to get their pizza to them while its still hot.

Solution


  1. system
  2. houses
  3. reliable
  4. percent
  5. pizza
  6. stack
  7. laughter
  8. language
  9. ambulances
  10. national
  11. gateway
  12. services

Original Text


(Laughter)

but over here ... I'm standing at pinched. singularly.tutorial.

But we haven't just done this in English. We thought it was essential that people should be able to use this system in their own language. So far, we've built it into 14 languages, including French, Swahili and Arabic, and we're working on more now, like Xhosa, Zulu and Hindi.

But this idea can do a lot more than just get my musicians to their gigs on time. If the 75 percent of countries that struggle with reliable addressing started using three-word addresses, there's a stack of far more important applications. In Durban, South Africa, an NGO called Gateway Health have distributed 11,000 three-word address signs to their community, so the pregnant mothers, when they go into labor, can call the emergency services and tell them exactly where to pick them up from, because otherwise, the ambulances have often taken hours to find them. In Mongolia, the National Post Service have adopted the system and are now doing deliveries to many people's houses for the first time. The UN are using it to geotag photos in disaster zones so they can deliver aid to exactly the right place. Even Domino's Pizza are using it in the Caribbean, because they haven't been able to find customers' homes, but they really want to get their pizza to them while its still hot.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations




Important Words


  1. address
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  4. adopted
  5. africa
  6. aid
  7. ambulances
  8. applications
  9. arabic
  10. built
  11. call
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  13. caribbean
  14. community
  15. countries
  16. deliver
  17. deliveries
  18. disaster
  19. distributed
  20. durban
  21. emergency
  22. english
  23. essential
  24. find
  25. french
  26. gateway
  27. geotag
  28. gigs
  29. health
  30. hindi
  31. homes
  32. hot
  33. hours
  34. houses
  35. idea
  36. important
  37. including
  38. labor
  39. language
  40. languages
  41. laughter
  42. lot
  43. mongolia
  44. mothers
  45. musicians
  46. national
  47. ngo
  48. people
  49. percent
  50. photos
  51. pick
  52. pinched
  53. pizza
  54. place
  55. post
  56. pregnant
  57. reliable
  58. service
  59. services
  60. signs
  61. singularly
  62. south
  63. stack
  64. standing
  65. started
  66. struggle
  67. swahili
  68. system
  69. thought
  70. time
  71. tutorial
  72. working
  73. xhosa
  74. zones
  75. zulu