full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Leo Lanna and Lvcas Fiat: The colorful, shapeshifting wonder of the Amazon's praying mantises

Unscramble the Blue Letters


LF: The closer you look, the more beautiful complexity you will find, like this aamnzig row of praying mantis wigns. And there’s the Brazilian dragon mantis; the flower bud mantis; the uornicn. But of course, rainforest isn't just a fantasy wonderland. "What if you are afraid of the dark?" you might be wroinndeg. Well, the answer is the same among explorers. Out there, surrounded by all kinds of creatures, the only thing we fear is mankind. And when we are back home, we fear that the next time we visit the rfisneorat again, it will be further destroyed.

LL: rasoneitrfs are delicate and endangered esmeytsocs critical to the stability of our paenlt. Most of its life renmias unknown. And just during this single talk, we've lost about 15 hectares of rainforest in the Amazon of Brazil to deforestation. That's bigger than 20 floabotl fields. Every 10 minutes, countless praying mantises gone. No matter how magical darkness is, when it covers the Amazon tonight, these areas will be empty. A silent mourning that few will hear. We are documenting species that may not exist in future generations. We’re just binnnegig to learn about them, and we are sihrang our discoveries so that we can increase their chances of survival.

Open Cloze


LF: The closer you look, the more beautiful complexity you will find, like this _______ row of praying mantis _____. And there’s the Brazilian dragon mantis; the flower bud mantis; the _______. But of course, rainforest isn't just a fantasy wonderland. "What if you are afraid of the dark?" you might be _________. Well, the answer is the same among explorers. Out there, surrounded by all kinds of creatures, the only thing we fear is mankind. And when we are back home, we fear that the next time we visit the __________ again, it will be further destroyed.

LL: ___________ are delicate and endangered __________ critical to the stability of our ______. Most of its life _______ unknown. And just during this single talk, we've lost about 15 hectares of rainforest in the Amazon of Brazil to deforestation. That's bigger than 20 ________ fields. Every 10 minutes, countless praying mantises gone. No matter how magical darkness is, when it covers the Amazon tonight, these areas will be empty. A silent mourning that few will hear. We are documenting species that may not exist in future generations. We’re just _________ to learn about them, and we are _______ our discoveries so that we can increase their chances of survival.

Solution


  1. sharing
  2. football
  3. wondering
  4. rainforest
  5. ecosystems
  6. planet
  7. rainforests
  8. amazing
  9. beginning
  10. remains
  11. wings
  12. unicorn

Original Text


LF: The closer you look, the more beautiful complexity you will find, like this amazing row of praying mantis wings. And there’s the Brazilian dragon mantis; the flower bud mantis; the unicorn. But of course, rainforest isn't just a fantasy wonderland. "What if you are afraid of the dark?" you might be wondering. Well, the answer is the same among explorers. Out there, surrounded by all kinds of creatures, the only thing we fear is mankind. And when we are back home, we fear that the next time we visit the rainforest again, it will be further destroyed.

LL: Rainforests are delicate and endangered ecosystems critical to the stability of our planet. Most of its life remains unknown. And just during this single talk, we've lost about 15 hectares of rainforest in the Amazon of Brazil to deforestation. That's bigger than 20 football fields. Every 10 minutes, countless praying mantises gone. No matter how magical darkness is, when it covers the Amazon tonight, these areas will be empty. A silent mourning that few will hear. We are documenting species that may not exist in future generations. We’re just beginning to learn about them, and we are sharing our discoveries so that we can increase their chances of survival.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
praying mantis 6
praying mantises 3


Important Words


  1. afraid
  2. amazing
  3. amazon
  4. answer
  5. areas
  6. beautiful
  7. beginning
  8. bigger
  9. brazil
  10. brazilian
  11. bud
  12. chances
  13. closer
  14. complexity
  15. countless
  16. covers
  17. creatures
  18. critical
  19. dark
  20. darkness
  21. deforestation
  22. delicate
  23. destroyed
  24. discoveries
  25. documenting
  26. dragon
  27. ecosystems
  28. empty
  29. endangered
  30. exist
  31. explorers
  32. fantasy
  33. fear
  34. fields
  35. find
  36. flower
  37. football
  38. future
  39. generations
  40. hear
  41. hectares
  42. home
  43. increase
  44. kinds
  45. learn
  46. life
  47. lost
  48. magical
  49. mankind
  50. mantis
  51. mantises
  52. matter
  53. minutes
  54. mourning
  55. planet
  56. praying
  57. rainforest
  58. rainforests
  59. remains
  60. row
  61. sharing
  62. silent
  63. single
  64. species
  65. stability
  66. surrounded
  67. survival
  68. talk
  69. time
  70. tonight
  71. unicorn
  72. unknown
  73. visit
  74. wings
  75. wondering
  76. wonderland