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From the Ted Talk by Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Weren't those photos amazing? Yeah?

Audience: Yeah!

(Applause)

FS: I have to thank the photographers from the team La Venta, because all of those photos are from the photographers.

BG: You bring, actually, photographers with you in the expedition. They're poefosialrsns, they're speleologists and phpoehotargrs. But when I look at these pictures, I wonder: there is zero lgiht down there, and yet they look incredibly well-exposed. How do you take these pictures? How do your cuelaloges, the photographers, take these pictures?

FS: Yeah. They are working in a darkroom, basically, so you can open the shutter of the camera and use the litghs to paint the environment.

Open Cloze


Weren't those photos amazing? Yeah?

Audience: Yeah!

(Applause)

FS: I have to thank the photographers from the team La Venta, because all of those photos are from the photographers.

BG: You bring, actually, photographers with you in the expedition. They're _____________, they're speleologists and _____________. But when I look at these pictures, I wonder: there is zero _____ down there, and yet they look incredibly well-exposed. How do you take these pictures? How do your __________, the photographers, take these pictures?

FS: Yeah. They are working in a darkroom, basically, so you can open the shutter of the camera and use the ______ to paint the environment.

Solution


  1. photographers
  2. light
  3. colleagues
  4. professionals
  5. lights

Original Text


Weren't those photos amazing? Yeah?

Audience: Yeah!

(Applause)

FS: I have to thank the photographers from the team La Venta, because all of those photos are from the photographers.

BG: You bring, actually, photographers with you in the expedition. They're professionals, they're speleologists and photographers. But when I look at these pictures, I wonder: there is zero light down there, and yet they look incredibly well-exposed. How do you take these pictures? How do your colleagues, the photographers, take these pictures?

FS: Yeah. They are working in a darkroom, basically, so you can open the shutter of the camera and use the lights to paint the environment.

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Important Words


  1. amazing
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  3. basically
  4. bring
  5. camera
  6. colleagues
  7. darkroom
  8. environment
  9. expedition
  10. incredibly
  11. la
  12. light
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  15. paint
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  21. speleologists
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  24. working
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