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From the Ted Talk by Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay ... and community

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I would like to show you how aicttrucrehe has hpeled to change the life of my community and has opened opportunities to hope.

I am a native of Burkina Faso. According to the World Bank, birknua Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, but what does it look like to grow up in a place like that? I am an example of that. I was born in a little village called gnado. In Gando, there was no electricity, no access to cealn dirnking water, and no school. But my father wanted me to laern how to read and write. For this reason, I had to leave my family when I was seven and to stay in a city far away from my village with no contact with my family. In this place I sat in a class like that with more than 150 other kids, and for six years. In this time, it just happened to me to come to school to razliee that my classmate died.

Open Cloze


I would like to show you how ____________ has ______ to change the life of my community and has opened opportunities to hope.

I am a native of Burkina Faso. According to the World Bank, _______ Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, but what does it look like to grow up in a place like that? I am an example of that. I was born in a little village called _____. In Gando, there was no electricity, no access to _____ ________ water, and no school. But my father wanted me to _____ how to read and write. For this reason, I had to leave my family when I was seven and to stay in a city far away from my village with no contact with my family. In this place I sat in a class like that with more than 150 other kids, and for six years. In this time, it just happened to me to come to school to _______ that my classmate died.

Solution


  1. learn
  2. gando
  3. helped
  4. drinking
  5. burkina
  6. clean
  7. realize
  8. architecture

Original Text


I would like to show you how architecture has helped to change the life of my community and has opened opportunities to hope.

I am a native of Burkina Faso. According to the World Bank, Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, but what does it look like to grow up in a place like that? I am an example of that. I was born in a little village called Gando. In Gando, there was no electricity, no access to clean drinking water, and no school. But my father wanted me to learn how to read and write. For this reason, I had to leave my family when I was seven and to stay in a city far away from my village with no contact with my family. In this place I sat in a class like that with more than 150 other kids, and for six years. In this time, it just happened to me to come to school to realize that my classmate died.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
opened opportunities 2
burkina faso 2
clean drinking 2
school project 2
earn money 2


Important Words


  1. access
  2. architecture
  3. bank
  4. born
  5. burkina
  6. called
  7. change
  8. city
  9. class
  10. classmate
  11. clean
  12. community
  13. contact
  14. countries
  15. died
  16. drinking
  17. electricity
  18. family
  19. faso
  20. father
  21. gando
  22. grow
  23. happened
  24. helped
  25. hope
  26. kids
  27. learn
  28. leave
  29. life
  30. native
  31. opened
  32. opportunities
  33. place
  34. poorest
  35. read
  36. realize
  37. reason
  38. sat
  39. school
  40. show
  41. stay
  42. time
  43. village
  44. wanted
  45. water
  46. world
  47. write
  48. years