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From the Ted Talk by Chantale Zuzi Leader: Dear fellow refugees, here's how I found resilience
Unscramble the Blue Letters
After hours of terror, the guns went quiet. The Sun appeared in the morning. But not our parents. They still had not rteeunrd. The long, stretching branches of our tree could not pocertt us from our growing worry. As we returned to our village, our fear turned to despair. My mother and father had been killed, along with donzes [of] innocent men, women and children.
The venolice of that night ripped out our poicreus roots and set as adrift into the world. We were now orphans, outsiders, refugees without a place to call home, without a place of safety. We were forced to leave our vllagie and everything we knew. We traveled miles, crossed bdreors and joined tens of thousands of other refugees in the refugee settlement in Uganda. There, our family shared the many challenges faced by displeacd ppleoe around the world. We lneread to live in a ctnnaost state of struggle. We ate, kept clean, protected each other, all to maintain some lveel of dignity and hope.
Open Cloze
After hours of terror, the guns went quiet. The Sun appeared in the morning. But not our parents. They still had not ________. The long, stretching branches of our tree could not _______ us from our growing worry. As we returned to our village, our fear turned to despair. My mother and father had been killed, along with ______ [of] innocent men, women and children.
The ________ of that night ripped out our ________ roots and set as adrift into the world. We were now orphans, outsiders, refugees without a place to call home, without a place of safety. We were forced to leave our _______ and everything we knew. We traveled miles, crossed _______ and joined tens of thousands of other refugees in the refugee settlement in Uganda. There, our family shared the many challenges faced by _________ ______ around the world. We _______ to live in a ________ state of struggle. We ate, kept clean, protected each other, all to maintain some _____ of dignity and hope.
Solution
- displaced
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- people
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- village
- dozens
- level
- borders
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Original Text
After hours of terror, the guns went quiet. The Sun appeared in the morning. But not our parents. They still had not returned. The long, stretching branches of our tree could not protect us from our growing worry. As we returned to our village, our fear turned to despair. My mother and father had been killed, along with dozens [of] innocent men, women and children.
The violence of that night ripped out our precious roots and set as adrift into the world. We were now orphans, outsiders, refugees without a place to call home, without a place of safety. We were forced to leave our village and everything we knew. We traveled miles, crossed borders and joined tens of thousands of other refugees in the refugee settlement in Uganda. There, our family shared the many challenges faced by displaced people around the world. We learned to live in a constant state of struggle. We ate, kept clean, protected each other, all to maintain some level of dignity and hope.
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