full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution
Unscramble the Blue Letters
As the days pssead in Kiev's central square, streams of armed fgheirts were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary people, filling the streets in an act of collective mourning. Many were women who often carried folrwes that they had brought to lay as marks of respect for the dead. They came day after day and they corveed the square with millions of flowers. Sadness enveloped Maidan. It was quiet and I could hear the birds singing. I hadn't hraed that before.
I stopped women as they approached the bdraceiars to lay their tributes and asked to make their ptriuce. Most weomn cried when I photographed them. On the first day, my fxier, enime, and I cried with almost every woman who visited our studio. There had been such a noticeable absence of women up until that point. And the color of their pastel coats, their shiny handbags, and the bunches of red carnations, white tulips and yollew roses that they carried jarred with the beeacklnd square and the blackened men who were encamped there.
Open Cloze
As the days ______ in Kiev's central square, streams of armed ________ were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary people, filling the streets in an act of collective mourning. Many were women who often carried _______ that they had brought to lay as marks of respect for the dead. They came day after day and they _______ the square with millions of flowers. Sadness enveloped Maidan. It was quiet and I could hear the birds singing. I hadn't _____ that before.
I stopped women as they approached the __________ to lay their tributes and asked to make their _______. Most _____ cried when I photographed them. On the first day, my _____, _____, and I cried with almost every woman who visited our studio. There had been such a noticeable absence of women up until that point. And the color of their pastel coats, their shiny handbags, and the bunches of red carnations, white tulips and ______ roses that they carried jarred with the _________ square and the blackened men who were encamped there.
Solution
- fixer
- picture
- emine
- blackened
- passed
- fighters
- flowers
- barricades
- covered
- heard
- yellow
- women
Original Text
As the days passed in Kiev's central square, streams of armed fighters were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary people, filling the streets in an act of collective mourning. Many were women who often carried flowers that they had brought to lay as marks of respect for the dead. They came day after day and they covered the square with millions of flowers. Sadness enveloped Maidan. It was quiet and I could hear the birds singing. I hadn't heard that before.
I stopped women as they approached the barricades to lay their tributes and asked to make their picture. Most women cried when I photographed them. On the first day, my fixer, Emine, and I cried with almost every woman who visited our studio. There had been such a noticeable absence of women up until that point. And the color of their pastel coats, their shiny handbags, and the bunches of red carnations, white tulips and yellow roses that they carried jarred with the blackened square and the blackened men who were encamped there.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
Important Words
- absence
- act
- approached
- armed
- asked
- barricades
- birds
- blackened
- brought
- bunches
- carnations
- carried
- central
- coats
- collective
- color
- covered
- cried
- day
- days
- dead
- emine
- encamped
- enveloped
- fighters
- filling
- fixer
- flowers
- handbags
- hear
- heard
- jarred
- joined
- lay
- maidan
- marks
- men
- millions
- mourning
- noticeable
- ordinary
- passed
- pastel
- people
- photographed
- picture
- point
- quiet
- red
- respect
- roses
- sadness
- shiny
- singing
- square
- stopped
- streams
- streets
- studio
- tens
- thousands
- tributes
- tulips
- visited
- white
- woman
- women
- yellow