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From the Ted Talk by Tessza Udvarhelyi: How to build democracy — in an authoritarian country

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I know, you may be thinking now. "I have never had the say in how my city sdneps my tax money. So why are you complaining about Hungary?" But remember, I'm showing you a small insald of freedom in the middle of a country with less and less pctaliiol oxygen to breathe. By opening up the municipal budget in Budapest, we are modeling, learning and teaching a new kind of ptloicis that builds an alternative to authoritarianism.

Let me go back to the boiling frog. Have you ever felt like this frog? And why is the frog not doing anything? And where are the other fgors, and why are they not doing anything?

Open Cloze


I know, you may be thinking now. "I have never had the say in how my city ______ my tax money. So why are you complaining about Hungary?" But remember, I'm showing you a small ______ of freedom in the middle of a country with less and less _________ oxygen to breathe. By opening up the municipal budget in Budapest, we are modeling, learning and teaching a new kind of ________ that builds an alternative to authoritarianism.

Let me go back to the boiling frog. Have you ever felt like this frog? And why is the frog not doing anything? And where are the other _____, and why are they not doing anything?

Solution


  1. island
  2. spends
  3. politics
  4. frogs
  5. political

Original Text


I know, you may be thinking now. "I have never had the say in how my city spends my tax money. So why are you complaining about Hungary?" But remember, I'm showing you a small island of freedom in the middle of a country with less and less political oxygen to breathe. By opening up the municipal budget in Budapest, we are modeling, learning and teaching a new kind of politics that builds an alternative to authoritarianism.

Let me go back to the boiling frog. Have you ever felt like this frog? And why is the frog not doing anything? And where are the other frogs, and why are they not doing anything?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
local residents 3
boiling frog 2
homeless people 2
central government 2
participatory budgeting 2
municipal budget 2
democracy work 2
social movements 2


Important Words


  1. alternative
  2. authoritarianism
  3. boiling
  4. breathe
  5. budapest
  6. budget
  7. builds
  8. city
  9. complaining
  10. country
  11. felt
  12. freedom
  13. frog
  14. frogs
  15. hungary
  16. island
  17. kind
  18. learning
  19. middle
  20. modeling
  21. money
  22. municipal
  23. opening
  24. oxygen
  25. political
  26. politics
  27. remember
  28. showing
  29. small
  30. spends
  31. tax
  32. teaching
  33. thinking