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From the Ted Talk by Elif Shafak: If trees could speak

Unscramble the Blue Letters


hamnus do not see trees. They walk by us every day. They sit and sleep, smoke and pnicic and secretly kiss in our sadhe.

They pluck our leaves and groge on our fruits. They break our branches or crvae their lover's name on our tunkrs with their blades and vow eternal love. They weave necklaces out of our needles and pnait our flowers into art. They split us into logs to heat their hmoes, and sometimes they chop us down just because they think we obstruct their view.

They make cradles, wine corks, chewing gum, rustic furniture and produce the most beautiful music out of us. And they turn us into books in which they bury themselves on cold winter nhtigs. They use our wood to manufacture coffins in which they end their lives. And they even compose the most romantic poems for us, claiming we're the link between earth and sky. And yet, they do not see us.

Open Cloze


______ do not see trees. They walk by us every day. They sit and sleep, smoke and ______ and secretly kiss in our _____.

They pluck our leaves and _____ on our fruits. They break our branches or _____ their lover's name on our ______ with their blades and vow eternal love. They weave necklaces out of our needles and _____ our flowers into art. They split us into logs to heat their _____, and sometimes they chop us down just because they think we obstruct their view.

They make cradles, wine corks, chewing gum, rustic furniture and produce the most beautiful music out of us. And they turn us into books in which they bury themselves on cold winter ______. They use our wood to manufacture coffins in which they end their lives. And they even compose the most romantic poems for us, claiming we're the link between earth and sky. And yet, they do not see us.

Solution


  1. nights
  2. shade
  3. gorge
  4. trunks
  5. paint
  6. picnic
  7. homes
  8. carve
  9. humans

Original Text


Humans do not see trees. They walk by us every day. They sit and sleep, smoke and picnic and secretly kiss in our shade.

They pluck our leaves and gorge on our fruits. They break our branches or carve their lover's name on our trunks with their blades and vow eternal love. They weave necklaces out of our needles and paint our flowers into art. They split us into logs to heat their homes, and sometimes they chop us down just because they think we obstruct their view.

They make cradles, wine corks, chewing gum, rustic furniture and produce the most beautiful music out of us. And they turn us into books in which they bury themselves on cold winter nights. They use our wood to manufacture coffins in which they end their lives. And they even compose the most romantic poems for us, claiming we're the link between earth and sky. And yet, they do not see us.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations




Important Words


  1. art
  2. beautiful
  3. blades
  4. books
  5. branches
  6. break
  7. bury
  8. carve
  9. chewing
  10. chop
  11. claiming
  12. coffins
  13. cold
  14. compose
  15. corks
  16. cradles
  17. day
  18. earth
  19. eternal
  20. flowers
  21. fruits
  22. furniture
  23. gorge
  24. gum
  25. heat
  26. homes
  27. humans
  28. kiss
  29. leaves
  30. link
  31. lives
  32. logs
  33. love
  34. manufacture
  35. music
  36. necklaces
  37. needles
  38. nights
  39. obstruct
  40. paint
  41. picnic
  42. pluck
  43. poems
  44. produce
  45. romantic
  46. rustic
  47. secretly
  48. shade
  49. sit
  50. sky
  51. sleep
  52. smoke
  53. split
  54. trees
  55. trunks
  56. turn
  57. view
  58. vow
  59. walk
  60. weave
  61. wine
  62. winter
  63. wood