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From the Ted Talk by Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Being a monolingual American, I obviously don't know what the phrase means. So I went onto Twitter, and I asked some people if they could explain to me "Cala a boca, Galvao." And fortunately, my Brazilian friends were more than reday to help. They explained that the Galvao bird is a rare and endangered parrot that's in terrible, terrible danger. In fact, I'll let them tell you a bit more about it. Narrator: A word about Galvao, a very rare kind of bird native to Brazil. Every year, more than 300,000 Galvao birds are killed during Carnival parades. Ethan Zuckerman: Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse. It turns out that, not only is the gaavlo porart very attractive, useful for hdassederes, it evidently has certain hilgeoalucnnic properties, which means that there's a terrible problem with Galvao abuse. Some sick and tewtisd ploepe have found themselves snorting Galvao. And it's terribly endangered. The good news about this is that the goalbl comnumity — again, my bziaralin friends tell me — is pitching in to help out. It turns out that Lady Gaga has released a new single — actually five or six new singles, as near as I can tell — titled "Cala a boca, Galvao." And my Brazilian fnrdeis tell me that if I just tweet the phrase "Cala a boca, Galvao," 10 ctnes will be given to a global cpgaaimn to save this rare and beautiful bird.

Open Cloze


Being a monolingual American, I obviously don't know what the phrase means. So I went onto Twitter, and I asked some people if they could explain to me "Cala a boca, Galvao." And fortunately, my Brazilian friends were more than _____ to help. They explained that the Galvao bird is a rare and endangered parrot that's in terrible, terrible danger. In fact, I'll let them tell you a bit more about it. Narrator: A word about Galvao, a very rare kind of bird native to Brazil. Every year, more than 300,000 Galvao birds are killed during Carnival parades. Ethan Zuckerman: Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse. It turns out that, not only is the ______ ______ very attractive, useful for ___________, it evidently has certain ______________ properties, which means that there's a terrible problem with Galvao abuse. Some sick and _______ ______ have found themselves snorting Galvao. And it's terribly endangered. The good news about this is that the ______ _________ — again, my _________ friends tell me — is pitching in to help out. It turns out that Lady Gaga has released a new single — actually five or six new singles, as near as I can tell — titled "Cala a boca, Galvao." And my Brazilian _______ tell me that if I just tweet the phrase "Cala a boca, Galvao," 10 _____ will be given to a global ________ to save this rare and beautiful bird.

Solution


  1. community
  2. campaign
  3. friends
  4. galvao
  5. people
  6. global
  7. parrot
  8. twisted
  9. ready
  10. headdresses
  11. brazilian
  12. cents
  13. hallucinogenic

Original Text


Being a monolingual American, I obviously don't know what the phrase means. So I went onto Twitter, and I asked some people if they could explain to me "Cala a boca, Galvao." And fortunately, my Brazilian friends were more than ready to help. They explained that the Galvao bird is a rare and endangered parrot that's in terrible, terrible danger. In fact, I'll let them tell you a bit more about it. Narrator: A word about Galvao, a very rare kind of bird native to Brazil. Every year, more than 300,000 Galvao birds are killed during Carnival parades. Ethan Zuckerman: Obviously, this is a tragic situation, and it actually gets worse. It turns out that, not only is the Galvao parrot very attractive, useful for headdresses, it evidently has certain hallucinogenic properties, which means that there's a terrible problem with Galvao abuse. Some sick and twisted people have found themselves snorting Galvao. And it's terribly endangered. The good news about this is that the global community — again, my Brazilian friends tell me — is pitching in to help out. It turns out that Lady Gaga has released a new single — actually five or six new singles, as near as I can tell — titled "Cala a boca, Galvao." And my Brazilian friends tell me that if I just tweet the phrase "Cala a boca, Galvao," 10 cents will be given to a global campaign to save this rare and beautiful bird.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
brazilian friends 4
united states 3
enormous amount 3
ignore football 2
good news 2
internet users 2
trending topics 2
map based 2
american television 2
television news 2
heavy bias 2
red sox 2
real problem 2
global voices 2
wider world 2
dark spots 2
foko club 2
english language 2
middle east 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
american television news 2

Important Words


  1. abuse
  2. american
  3. asked
  4. attractive
  5. beautiful
  6. bird
  7. birds
  8. bit
  9. boca
  10. brazil
  11. brazilian
  12. campaign
  13. carnival
  14. cents
  15. community
  16. danger
  17. endangered
  18. ethan
  19. evidently
  20. explain
  21. explained
  22. fact
  23. fortunately
  24. friends
  25. gaga
  26. galvao
  27. global
  28. good
  29. hallucinogenic
  30. headdresses
  31. killed
  32. kind
  33. lady
  34. means
  35. monolingual
  36. native
  37. news
  38. parades
  39. parrot
  40. people
  41. phrase
  42. pitching
  43. problem
  44. properties
  45. rare
  46. ready
  47. released
  48. save
  49. sick
  50. single
  51. singles
  52. situation
  53. snorting
  54. terrible
  55. terribly
  56. titled
  57. tragic
  58. turns
  59. tweet
  60. twisted
  61. twitter
  62. word
  63. worse
  64. year