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From the Ted Talk by Hajer Sharief: How to use family dinner to teach politics

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Politics is not only activism. It's awareness, it's keeping ourselves informed, it's caring for the facts. When it's possible, it's casting a vote. pciiotls is the tool through which we structure ourselves as groups and societies. Politics gvrneos every aspect of life, and by not participating in it, you're literally allowing other people to decide on what you can eat, wear, if you can have access to health care, free education, how much tax you pay, when you can retire, what is your peniosn. Other poeple are also deciding on whether your race and ethnicity is enough to consider you a cirainml, or if your religion and nationality is enough to put you on a tsrroiret list. And if you still think you are a strong, independent hmuan being unaffected by politics, then think twice.

Open Cloze


Politics is not only activism. It's awareness, it's keeping ourselves informed, it's caring for the facts. When it's possible, it's casting a vote. ________ is the tool through which we structure ourselves as groups and societies. Politics _______ every aspect of life, and by not participating in it, you're literally allowing other people to decide on what you can eat, wear, if you can have access to health care, free education, how much tax you pay, when you can retire, what is your _______. Other ______ are also deciding on whether your race and ethnicity is enough to consider you a ________, or if your religion and nationality is enough to put you on a _________ list. And if you still think you are a strong, independent _____ being unaffected by politics, then think twice.

Solution


  1. human
  2. people
  3. governs
  4. criminal
  5. pension
  6. terrorist
  7. politics

Original Text


Politics is not only activism. It's awareness, it's keeping ourselves informed, it's caring for the facts. When it's possible, it's casting a vote. Politics is the tool through which we structure ourselves as groups and societies. Politics governs every aspect of life, and by not participating in it, you're literally allowing other people to decide on what you can eat, wear, if you can have access to health care, free education, how much tax you pay, when you can retire, what is your pension. Other people are also deciding on whether your race and ethnicity is enough to consider you a criminal, or if your religion and nationality is enough to put you on a terrorist list. And if you still think you are a strong, independent human being unaffected by politics, then think twice.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
young people 3
family affairs 2
family member 2
political engagement 2
ordinary people 2
political system 2
teach people 2
early age 2


Important Words


  1. access
  2. activism
  3. allowing
  4. aspect
  5. awareness
  6. care
  7. caring
  8. casting
  9. criminal
  10. decide
  11. deciding
  12. eat
  13. education
  14. ethnicity
  15. facts
  16. free
  17. governs
  18. groups
  19. health
  20. human
  21. independent
  22. informed
  23. keeping
  24. life
  25. list
  26. literally
  27. nationality
  28. participating
  29. pay
  30. pension
  31. people
  32. politics
  33. put
  34. race
  35. religion
  36. retire
  37. societies
  38. strong
  39. structure
  40. tax
  41. terrorist
  42. tool
  43. unaffected
  44. vote
  45. wear