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From the Ted Talk by Bjarke Ingels: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the waterfronts of our ceitis are experiencing a lot of change. Economic change, industrial change and cimatle caghne. This is Manhattan before Hurricane Sandy, and this is Manhattan after Sandy. We got invited by the city of New York to look if we could make the necessary flood protection for Manhattan without building a seawall that would segregate the life of the city from the water around it. And we got ineisrpd by the High Line. You probably know the High Line — it's this amazing new park in New York. It's basically decommissioned train tracks that now have become one of the most poplaur paordemens in the city.

Open Cloze


And the waterfronts of our ______ are experiencing a lot of change. Economic change, industrial change and _______ ______. This is Manhattan before Hurricane Sandy, and this is Manhattan after Sandy. We got invited by the city of New York to look if we could make the necessary flood protection for Manhattan without building a seawall that would segregate the life of the city from the water around it. And we got ________ by the High Line. You probably know the High Line — it's this amazing new park in New York. It's basically decommissioned train tracks that now have become one of the most _______ __________ in the city.

Solution


  1. change
  2. promenades
  3. cities
  4. inspired
  5. climate
  6. popular

Original Text


And the waterfronts of our cities are experiencing a lot of change. Economic change, industrial change and climate change. This is Manhattan before Hurricane Sandy, and this is Manhattan after Sandy. We got invited by the city of New York to look if we could make the necessary flood protection for Manhattan without building a seawall that would segregate the life of the city from the water around it. And we got inspired by the High Line. You probably know the High Line — it's this amazing new park in New York. It's basically decommissioned train tracks that now have become one of the most popular promenades in the city.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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flood protection 4
high line 4
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Important Words


  1. amazing
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  4. change
  5. cities
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  7. climate
  8. decommissioned
  9. economic
  10. experiencing
  11. flood
  12. high
  13. hurricane
  14. industrial
  15. inspired
  16. invited
  17. life
  18. line
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  20. manhattan
  21. park
  22. popular
  23. promenades
  24. protection
  25. sandy
  26. seawall
  27. segregate
  28. tracks
  29. train
  30. water
  31. waterfronts
  32. york