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From the Ted Talk by Gabriel Marmentini: How to be an active citizen and spark change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


First, political knowledge. We are raised _________ to bad things about politics, right? It's something that is corrupted, it's boring, it's difficult to understand, so we must _____ it. That's wrong. ________ is beautiful, and it's a beauty tool for ______________. But we need to understand how to use it. And when you dive into this concept, you need to acquire the basic _________ to understand your country, how your country is organized, which institutions are there, what they do, what are the political parties, the ideologies, why you're paying taxes, where your _____ is going. All these basic answers you must have to be a citizen. If you don't have it, you need to look forward for it. Especially in a world of misinformation, this gets quite important. So political knowledge as the first ingredient.

Solution


  1. knowledge
  2. politics
  3. avoid
  4. money
  5. transformation
  6. listening

Original Text


First, political knowledge. We are raised listening to bad things about politics, right? It's something that is corrupted, it's boring, it's difficult to understand, so we must avoid it. That's wrong. Politics is beautiful, and it's a beauty tool for transformation. But we need to understand how to use it. And when you dive into this concept, you need to acquire the basic knowledge to understand your country, how your country is organized, which institutions are there, what they do, what are the political parties, the ideologies, why you're paying taxes, where your money is going. All these basic answers you must have to be a citizen. If you don't have it, you need to look forward for it. Especially in a world of misinformation, this gets quite important. So political knowledge as the first ingredient.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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public policies 3
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life experiences 2
citizen metamorphosis 2
solving public 2
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city gaps 2
civic empathy 2

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collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. acquire
  2. answers
  3. avoid
  4. bad
  5. basic
  6. beautiful
  7. beauty
  8. boring
  9. citizen
  10. concept
  11. corrupted
  12. country
  13. difficult
  14. dive
  15. ideologies
  16. important
  17. ingredient
  18. institutions
  19. knowledge
  20. listening
  21. misinformation
  22. money
  23. organized
  24. parties
  25. paying
  26. political
  27. politics
  28. raised
  29. taxes
  30. tool
  31. transformation
  32. understand
  33. world
  34. wrong