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From the Ted Talk by Hans Rosling: Religions and babies

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So bear with our scitpiilmy now when I take you over to this shot. This is in 1960. And now I show the number of bbaeis per woman here: two, four or six — many babies, few babies. And here the income per person in comparable dollars. The reason for that is that many people say you have to get rich first before you get few babies. So low income here, high income there.

And indeed in 1960, you had to be a rich Christian to have few babies. The etxeicopn was Japan. Japan here was regarded as an exception. Otherwise it was only Christian countries. But there was also many Christian countries that had six to seven babies per wmoan. But they were in Latin America or they were in Africa. And countries with Islam as the mirojaty religion, all of them almost had six to seven clidrehn per woman, ieelgrrsdars of the imncoe level. And all the Eastern religions except Japan had the same level.

Open Cloze


So bear with our __________ now when I take you over to this shot. This is in 1960. And now I show the number of ______ per woman here: two, four or six — many babies, few babies. And here the income per person in comparable dollars. The reason for that is that many people say you have to get rich first before you get few babies. So low income here, high income there.

And indeed in 1960, you had to be a rich Christian to have few babies. The _________ was Japan. Japan here was regarded as an exception. Otherwise it was only Christian countries. But there was also many Christian countries that had six to seven babies per _____. But they were in Latin America or they were in Africa. And countries with Islam as the ________ religion, all of them almost had six to seven ________ per woman, ____________ of the ______ level. And all the Eastern religions except Japan had the same level.

Solution


  1. simplicity
  2. majority
  3. woman
  4. exception
  5. children
  6. income
  7. irregardless
  8. babies

Original Text


So bear with our simplicity now when I take you over to this shot. This is in 1960. And now I show the number of babies per woman here: two, four or six — many babies, few babies. And here the income per person in comparable dollars. The reason for that is that many people say you have to get rich first before you get few babies. So low income here, high income there.

And indeed in 1960, you had to be a rich Christian to have few babies. The exception was Japan. Japan here was regarded as an exception. Otherwise it was only Christian countries. But there was also many Christian countries that had six to seven babies per woman. But they were in Latin America or they were in Africa. And countries with Islam as the majority religion, all of them almost had six to seven children per woman, irregardless of the income level. And all the Eastern religions except Japan had the same level.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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population growth 3
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world population 2
christian majority 2
christian countries 2
majority countries 2
amazing development 2
united states 2
major difference 2
fast population 2
reached peak 2
peak child 2
stop growing 2
grow older 2

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collocation frequency
fast population growth 2
reached peak child 2

Important Words


  1. africa
  2. america
  3. babies
  4. bear
  5. children
  6. christian
  7. comparable
  8. countries
  9. dollars
  10. eastern
  11. exception
  12. high
  13. income
  14. irregardless
  15. islam
  16. japan
  17. latin
  18. level
  19. majority
  20. number
  21. people
  22. person
  23. reason
  24. regarded
  25. religion
  26. religions
  27. rich
  28. shot
  29. show
  30. simplicity
  31. woman