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From the Ted Talk by Nathaniel Kahn: Scenes from "My Architect"

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So you'll see images of this remarkable biudilng. A couple of things to keep in mind when you see it, it was built entirely by hand, I think they got a crnae the last year. It was built entirely by hand off bamboo scaffolding, plopee carrying these baskets of concrete on their heads, dumping them in the forms. It is the capital of the coutnry, and it took 23 yeras to build, which is something they seem to be very proud of over there. It took as long as the Taj Mahal. Unfortunately it took so long that Lou never saw it finished. He died in 1974. The building was fiienhsd in 1983. So it continued on for many years after he died. Think about that when you see that building, that sometimes the things we strive for so hard in life we never get to see finished.

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So you'll see images of this remarkable ________. A couple of things to keep in mind when you see it, it was built entirely by hand, I think they got a _____ the last year. It was built entirely by hand off bamboo scaffolding, ______ carrying these baskets of concrete on their heads, dumping them in the forms. It is the capital of the _______, and it took 23 _____ to build, which is something they seem to be very proud of over there. It took as long as the Taj Mahal. Unfortunately it took so long that Lou never saw it finished. He died in 1974. The building was ________ in 1983. So it continued on for many years after he died. Think about that when you see that building, that sometimes the things we strive for so hard in life we never get to see finished.

Solution


  1. people
  2. years
  3. building
  4. crane
  5. finished
  6. country

Original Text


So you'll see images of this remarkable building. A couple of things to keep in mind when you see it, it was built entirely by hand, I think they got a crane the last year. It was built entirely by hand off bamboo scaffolding, people carrying these baskets of concrete on their heads, dumping them in the forms. It is the capital of the country, and it took 23 years to build, which is something they seem to be very proud of over there. It took as long as the Taj Mahal. Unfortunately it took so long that Lou never saw it finished. He died in 1974. The building was finished in 1983. So it continued on for many years after he died. Think about that when you see that building, that sometimes the things we strive for so hard in life we never get to see finished.

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Important Words


  1. bamboo
  2. baskets
  3. build
  4. building
  5. built
  6. capital
  7. carrying
  8. concrete
  9. continued
  10. country
  11. couple
  12. crane
  13. died
  14. dumping
  15. finished
  16. forms
  17. hand
  18. hard
  19. heads
  20. images
  21. life
  22. long
  23. lou
  24. mahal
  25. mind
  26. people
  27. proud
  28. remarkable
  29. scaffolding
  30. strive
  31. taj
  32. year
  33. years