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From the Ted Talk by Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The inhabitants literally built up these homes with their own hands, and this labor of love instills a garet sense of pride in many families living in this tower. They typically make the best out of their conditions, and try to make their sepacs look nice and homey, or at least up until as far as they can reach. Throughout the tower, you come across all kdins of svcreies, like the barebr, small factories, and every floor has a little grocery store or shop. And you even find a church. And on the 30th floor, there is a gym where all the weights and barbells are made out of the leftover pulleys from the elevators which were never inleltsad. From the outside, behind this always-changing facade, you see how the fixed concrete beams pvoride a framework for the inhabitants to ctreae their homes in an organic, intuitive way that responds directly to their needs.

Open Cloze


The inhabitants literally built up these homes with their own hands, and this labor of love instills a _____ sense of pride in many families living in this tower. They typically make the best out of their conditions, and try to make their ______ look nice and homey, or at least up until as far as they can reach. Throughout the tower, you come across all _____ of ________, like the ______, small factories, and every floor has a little grocery store or shop. And you even find a church. And on the 30th floor, there is a gym where all the weights and barbells are made out of the leftover pulleys from the elevators which were never _________. From the outside, behind this always-changing facade, you see how the fixed concrete beams _______ a framework for the inhabitants to ______ their homes in an organic, intuitive way that responds directly to their needs.

Solution


  1. kinds
  2. great
  3. create
  4. barber
  5. spaces
  6. installed
  7. services
  8. provide

Original Text


The inhabitants literally built up these homes with their own hands, and this labor of love instills a great sense of pride in many families living in this tower. They typically make the best out of their conditions, and try to make their spaces look nice and homey, or at least up until as far as they can reach. Throughout the tower, you come across all kinds of services, like the barber, small factories, and every floor has a little grocery store or shop. And you even find a church. And on the 30th floor, there is a gym where all the weights and barbells are made out of the leftover pulleys from the elevators which were never installed. From the outside, behind this always-changing facade, you see how the fixed concrete beams provide a framework for the inhabitants to create their homes in an organic, intuitive way that responds directly to their needs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
unfinished tower 3
completely adapted 2
design decisions 2
ground floor 2
cow shed 2


Important Words


  1. barbells
  2. barber
  3. beams
  4. built
  5. church
  6. concrete
  7. conditions
  8. create
  9. elevators
  10. facade
  11. factories
  12. families
  13. find
  14. fixed
  15. floor
  16. framework
  17. great
  18. grocery
  19. gym
  20. hands
  21. homes
  22. homey
  23. inhabitants
  24. installed
  25. instills
  26. intuitive
  27. kinds
  28. labor
  29. leftover
  30. literally
  31. living
  32. love
  33. nice
  34. organic
  35. pride
  36. provide
  37. pulleys
  38. reach
  39. responds
  40. sense
  41. services
  42. shop
  43. small
  44. spaces
  45. store
  46. tower
  47. typically
  48. weights