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From the Ted Talk by Karoliina Korppoo: How a video game might help us build better cities

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We hmanus are becoming an urban species, so citeis, they are our natural hibaatt. That is where we live. In 2014, over 54 percent of the world population was lviing in cities, and I can bet you that so many of these poplee have tghouht of how they would do things differently, like if I only had the tools to change things in my city, what would I do? What would my dream city be like? And these tools, this is just what we gave them. Two years ago, my team and I, we released a game, "Cities: Skylines." It is a game about building cities.

So I have always been interested in cities as systems. It's something that I find immensely interesting. But what I didn't understand was that I am not alone in this. People love cities. They are interested. They have idaes. The game was an instant hit. So far, over three and a half million people have played it.

Open Cloze


We ______ are becoming an urban species, so ______, they are our natural _______. That is where we live. In 2014, over 54 percent of the world population was ______ in cities, and I can bet you that so many of these ______ have _______ of how they would do things differently, like if I only had the tools to change things in my city, what would I do? What would my dream city be like? And these tools, this is just what we gave them. Two years ago, my team and I, we released a game, "Cities: Skylines." It is a game about building cities.

So I have always been interested in cities as systems. It's something that I find immensely interesting. But what I didn't understand was that I am not alone in this. People love cities. They are interested. They have _____. The game was an instant hit. So far, over three and a half million people have played it.

Solution


  1. habitat
  2. people
  3. cities
  4. ideas
  5. thought
  6. living
  7. humans

Original Text


We humans are becoming an urban species, so cities, they are our natural habitat. That is where we live. In 2014, over 54 percent of the world population was living in cities, and I can bet you that so many of these people have thought of how they would do things differently, like if I only had the tools to change things in my city, what would I do? What would my dream city be like? And these tools, this is just what we gave them. Two years ago, my team and I, we released a game, "Cities: Skylines." It is a game about building cities.

So I have always been interested in cities as systems. It's something that I find immensely interesting. But what I didn't understand was that I am not alone in this. People love cities. They are interested. They have ideas. The game was an instant hit. So far, over three and a half million people have played it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
city designs 2
real city 2
basic idea 2


Important Words


  1. bet
  2. building
  3. change
  4. cities
  5. city
  6. differently
  7. dream
  8. find
  9. game
  10. gave
  11. habitat
  12. hit
  13. humans
  14. ideas
  15. immensely
  16. instant
  17. interested
  18. interesting
  19. live
  20. living
  21. love
  22. million
  23. natural
  24. people
  25. percent
  26. played
  27. population
  28. released
  29. skylines
  30. species
  31. systems
  32. team
  33. thought
  34. tools
  35. understand
  36. urban
  37. world
  38. years