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From the Ted Talk by Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper

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Year 2010 in Haiti, there was a big earthquake, but it's iobssmlipe to fly over, so I went to Santo dmigono, next-door country, to dirve six hours to get to Haiti with the local students in Santo Domingo to build 50 units of shelter out of local paper tbeus.

This is what happened in Japan two years ago, in northern jaapn. After the eqaukarhte and tsunami, people had to be evacuated in a big room like a gymnasium. But look at this. There's no privacy. People suffer mentally and physically. So we went there to build partitions with all the student vetunlreos with paper tubes, just a very simple shelter out of the tube frame and the caritun. However, some of the facility authority doesn't want us to do it, because, they said, simply, it's become more difficult to control them. But it's really necessary to do it.

Open Cloze


Year 2010 in Haiti, there was a big earthquake, but it's __________ to fly over, so I went to Santo _______, next-door country, to _____ six hours to get to Haiti with the local students in Santo Domingo to build 50 units of shelter out of local paper _____.

This is what happened in Japan two years ago, in northern _____. After the __________ and tsunami, people had to be evacuated in a big room like a gymnasium. But look at this. There's no privacy. People suffer mentally and physically. So we went there to build partitions with all the student __________ with paper tubes, just a very simple shelter out of the tube frame and the _______. However, some of the facility authority doesn't want us to do it, because, they said, simply, it's become more difficult to control them. But it's really necessary to do it.

Solution


  1. curtain
  2. japan
  3. domingo
  4. tubes
  5. impossible
  6. drive
  7. volunteers
  8. earthquake

Original Text


Year 2010 in Haiti, there was a big earthquake, but it's impossible to fly over, so I went to Santo Domingo, next-door country, to drive six hours to get to Haiti with the local students in Santo Domingo to build 50 units of shelter out of local paper tubes.

This is what happened in Japan two years ago, in northern Japan. After the earthquake and tsunami, people had to be evacuated in a big room like a gymnasium. But look at this. There's no privacy. People suffer mentally and physically. So we went there to build partitions with all the student volunteers with paper tubes, just a very simple shelter out of the tube frame and the curtain. However, some of the facility authority doesn't want us to do it, because, they said, simply, it's become more difficult to control them. But it's really necessary to do it.

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