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From the Ted Talk by Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I want you to take a trip with me. Picture yourself driving down a small road in Africa, and as you drive along, you look off to the side, and this is what you see: you see a field of greavs. And you stop, and you get out of your car and you take a picture. And you go into the town, and you inquire, "What's going on here?" and ppeole are initially reluctant to tell you. And then someone says, "These are the recent AIDS dteahs in our community." HIV isn't like other medical conditions; it's stigmatizing. People are rcuetlant to talk about it — there's a fear associated with it. And I'm going to talk about HIV today, about the deaths, about the stigma. It's a maedcil sroty, but more than that, it's a social story.

Open Cloze


I want you to take a trip with me. Picture yourself driving down a small road in Africa, and as you drive along, you look off to the side, and this is what you see: you see a field of ______. And you stop, and you get out of your car and you take a picture. And you go into the town, and you inquire, "What's going on here?" and ______ are initially reluctant to tell you. And then someone says, "These are the recent AIDS ______ in our community." HIV isn't like other medical conditions; it's stigmatizing. People are _________ to talk about it — there's a fear associated with it. And I'm going to talk about HIV today, about the deaths, about the stigma. It's a _______ _____, but more than that, it's a social story.

Solution


  1. graves
  2. people
  3. medical
  4. deaths
  5. reluctant
  6. story

Original Text


I want you to take a trip with me. Picture yourself driving down a small road in Africa, and as you drive along, you look off to the side, and this is what you see: you see a field of graves. And you stop, and you get out of your car and you take a picture. And you go into the town, and you inquire, "What's going on here?" and people are initially reluctant to tell you. And then someone says, "These are the recent AIDS deaths in our community." HIV isn't like other medical conditions; it's stigmatizing. People are reluctant to talk about it — there's a fear associated with it. And I'm going to talk about HIV today, about the deaths, about the stigma. It's a medical story, but more than that, it's a social story.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
health care 12
mentor mothers 6
pregnant women 5
disproportionate share 3
united states 3
national attitudes 3
care systems 3
world today 2
give birth 2
child transmission 2
infant feeding 2
safer sex 2
thousand babies 2
single dose 2
medical care 2
change national 2
mentor mother 2
brother stood 2
sister stood 2
change attitudes 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
health care systems 3
change national attitudes 2

Important Words


  1. africa
  2. aids
  3. car
  4. community
  5. deaths
  6. drive
  7. driving
  8. fear
  9. field
  10. graves
  11. hiv
  12. initially
  13. inquire
  14. medical
  15. people
  16. picture
  17. reluctant
  18. road
  19. side
  20. small
  21. social
  22. stigma
  23. stigmatizing
  24. stop
  25. story
  26. talk
  27. today
  28. town
  29. trip