full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Yann Arthus-Bertrand: A wide-angle view of fragile Earth

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I have a big impact on the planet to travel here by plane. I emitted, in the aprehtmsoe, nine tons of CO2; that is the weight of two elephants. I came here to spaek about ecology, and I emitted as much CO2 as a ferhmancn in one year. So what do I have to do? I have to kill a Frenchman when I come back at home? (ltehuagr) I have to do my carbon offset in another way, like I do every time. (Laughter)

In fact my work is to show our icpmat on our pnaelt. I'm going to show you some examples of the last pectruis I've done in the last year.

Alberta sand oil, a lot of pollution. You know the problem; we don't want to believe what we know. In Alberta people work nonstop, 24 hours by seven to extract as much oil as they can. We know about the end of oil. Oil sand is not a long-term solution. But we use three times more oil than we find every year. We don't want to believe what we know. Deny.

Open Cloze


I have a big impact on the planet to travel here by plane. I emitted, in the __________, nine tons of CO2; that is the weight of two elephants. I came here to _____ about ecology, and I emitted as much CO2 as a _________ in one year. So what do I have to do? I have to kill a Frenchman when I come back at home? (________) I have to do my carbon offset in another way, like I do every time. (Laughter)

In fact my work is to show our ______ on our ______. I'm going to show you some examples of the last ________ I've done in the last year.

Alberta sand oil, a lot of pollution. You know the problem; we don't want to believe what we know. In Alberta people work nonstop, 24 hours by seven to extract as much oil as they can. We know about the end of oil. Oil sand is not a long-term solution. But we use three times more oil than we find every year. We don't want to believe what we know. Deny.

Solution


  1. speak
  2. planet
  3. laughter
  4. frenchman
  5. pictures
  6. atmosphere
  7. impact

Original Text


I have a big impact on the planet to travel here by plane. I emitted, in the atmosphere, nine tons of CO2; that is the weight of two elephants. I came here to speak about ecology, and I emitted as much CO2 as a Frenchman in one year. So what do I have to do? I have to kill a Frenchman when I come back at home? (Laughter) I have to do my carbon offset in another way, like I do every time. (Laughter)

In fact my work is to show our impact on our planet. I'm going to show you some examples of the last pictures I've done in the last year.

Alberta sand oil, a lot of pollution. You know the problem; we don't want to believe what we know. In Alberta people work nonstop, 24 hours by seven to extract as much oil as they can. We know about the end of oil. Oil sand is not a long-term solution. But we use three times more oil than we find every year. We don't want to believe what we know. Deny.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
billion people 2
million refugees 2


Important Words


  1. alberta
  2. atmosphere
  3. big
  4. carbon
  5. deny
  6. ecology
  7. elephants
  8. emitted
  9. examples
  10. extract
  11. fact
  12. find
  13. frenchman
  14. home
  15. hours
  16. impact
  17. kill
  18. laughter
  19. lot
  20. nonstop
  21. offset
  22. oil
  23. people
  24. pictures
  25. plane
  26. planet
  27. pollution
  28. sand
  29. show
  30. solution
  31. speak
  32. time
  33. times
  34. tons
  35. travel
  36. weight
  37. work
  38. year