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From the Ted Talk by Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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BG: When the story came out first, last July, last year, you filed a criminal complaint with a German tribunal. Why? HK: Yeah, I did so because of the second pnoit I mnietnoed, that I think especially in a democracy, the rules are for everybody. They are made for everybody, so it's not allowed that any institution doesn't respect the rules. In the criminal code of Germany, it's written that it's not allowed to tap somebody without the permission of the jugde. Fortunately, it's written in the criminal code of gmenary, so if it's not respected, then I think an investigation is necessary, and it took a very long time that the pubilc prosecutor of Germany started this, and he started it only in the case of alngea Merkel, and not in the case of all the other people living in Germany.

Open Cloze


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BG: When the story came out first, last July, last year, you filed a criminal complaint with a German tribunal. Why? HK: Yeah, I did so because of the second _____ I _________, that I think especially in a democracy, the rules are for everybody. They are made for everybody, so it's not allowed that any institution doesn't respect the rules. In the criminal code of Germany, it's written that it's not allowed to tap somebody without the permission of the _____. Fortunately, it's written in the criminal code of _______, so if it's not respected, then I think an investigation is necessary, and it took a very long time that the ______ prosecutor of Germany started this, and he started it only in the case of ______ Merkel, and not in the case of all the other people living in Germany.

Solution


  1. mentioned
  2. angela
  3. public
  4. point
  5. germany
  6. judge

Original Text


(Applause)

BG: When the story came out first, last July, last year, you filed a criminal complaint with a German tribunal. Why? HK: Yeah, I did so because of the second point I mentioned, that I think especially in a democracy, the rules are for everybody. They are made for everybody, so it's not allowed that any institution doesn't respect the rules. In the criminal code of Germany, it's written that it's not allowed to tap somebody without the permission of the judge. Fortunately, it's written in the criminal code of Germany, so if it's not respected, then I think an investigation is necessary, and it took a very long time that the public prosecutor of Germany started this, and he started it only in the case of Angela Merkel, and not in the case of all the other people living in Germany.

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Important Words


  1. allowed
  2. angela
  3. applause
  4. case
  5. code
  6. complaint
  7. criminal
  8. democracy
  9. filed
  10. fortunately
  11. german
  12. germany
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  14. investigation
  15. judge
  16. july
  17. living
  18. long
  19. mentioned
  20. merkel
  21. people
  22. permission
  23. point
  24. prosecutor
  25. public
  26. respect
  27. respected
  28. rules
  29. started
  30. story
  31. tap
  32. time
  33. tribunal
  34. written
  35. yeah
  36. year