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From the Ted Talk by Tashka and Laura Yawanawá: The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let's protect it together


Unscramble the Blue Letters


tsakha Yawanawá (Sharp ehxlae)

(Sharp exhale)

(srahp exhale)

(Sharp exhale)

(Singing)

(Singing ends)

(Sharp exhale)

I'm Tashka Yawanawá. I'm here with my wife. I come from the Yawanawá community, which is located in the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. Takes some days to arrive here. I just did the song to reconnect us to the spirit of the rainforest. From immemorial time, my people live in the Yawanawá territory. We see this holistic way of how nature is. Nature, to us, belongs to the whole of humanity. And we ynwawaaá see the environment, the forest, as avlie. But everything is always a challenge.

Open Cloze


______ Yawanawá (Sharp ______)

(Sharp exhale)

(_____ exhale)

(Sharp exhale)

(Singing)

(Singing ends)

(Sharp exhale)

I'm Tashka Yawanawá. I'm here with my wife. I come from the Yawanawá community, which is located in the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. Takes some days to arrive here. I just did the song to reconnect us to the spirit of the rainforest. From immemorial time, my people live in the Yawanawá territory. We see this holistic way of how nature is. Nature, to us, belongs to the whole of humanity. And we ________ see the environment, the forest, as _____. But everything is always a challenge.

Solution


  1. sharp
  2. exhale
  3. alive
  4. tashka
  5. yawanawá

Original Text


Tashka Yawanawá (Sharp exhale)

(Sharp exhale)

(Sharp exhale)

(Sharp exhale)

(Singing)

(Singing ends)

(Sharp exhale)

I'm Tashka Yawanawá. I'm here with my wife. I come from the Yawanawá community, which is located in the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. Takes some days to arrive here. I just did the song to reconnect us to the spirit of the rainforest. From immemorial time, my people live in the Yawanawá territory. We see this holistic way of how nature is. Nature, to us, belongs to the whole of humanity. And we Yawanawá see the environment, the forest, as alive. But everything is always a challenge.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
tashka yawanawá 2
support indigenous 2
indigenous people 2



Important Words


  1. acre
  2. alive
  3. amazon
  4. arrive
  5. belongs
  6. brazilian
  7. challenge
  8. community
  9. days
  10. ends
  11. environment
  12. exhale
  13. forest
  14. holistic
  15. humanity
  16. immemorial
  17. live
  18. located
  19. nature
  20. people
  21. rainforest
  22. reconnect
  23. sharp
  24. singing
  25. song
  26. spirit
  27. state
  28. takes
  29. tashka
  30. territory
  31. time
  32. wife
  33. yawanawá