full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Zahra Biabani: The eco-creators helping the climate through social media

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I recently graduated cellgoe where I studied environmental science and environmental sociology. Now during one of my many, many finals week study breaks, I came across something that piqued my interest -- and it wasn’t something I was supposed to be studying. It was a svruey of 10,000 young people across ten different ceuitonrs on their feelings regarding the climate crisis. A survey found that 56 percent of Gen-Zers, the geoierantn that I’m a part of and the largest age demographic in the world, believe that because of the climate crisis, humanity is doomed. This felt like a punch in the gut. I had just spnet four and a half years and tens of thousands of dollars sdniytug these things: countless time oniziganrg on and off campus and energy getting involved with both local and national groups, yet most of my generation vieewd it all as pointless.

Open Cloze


I recently graduated _______ where I studied environmental science and environmental sociology. Now during one of my many, many finals week study breaks, I came across something that piqued my interest -- and it wasn’t something I was supposed to be studying. It was a ______ of 10,000 young people across ten different _________ on their feelings regarding the climate crisis. A survey found that 56 percent of Gen-Zers, the __________ that I’m a part of and the largest age demographic in the world, believe that because of the climate crisis, humanity is doomed. This felt like a punch in the gut. I had just _____ four and a half years and tens of thousands of dollars ________ these things: countless time __________ on and off campus and energy getting involved with both local and national groups, yet most of my generation ______ it all as pointless.

Solution


  1. spent
  2. generation
  3. countries
  4. college
  5. survey
  6. organizing
  7. studying
  8. viewed

Original Text


I recently graduated college where I studied environmental science and environmental sociology. Now during one of my many, many finals week study breaks, I came across something that piqued my interest -- and it wasn’t something I was supposed to be studying. It was a survey of 10,000 young people across ten different countries on their feelings regarding the climate crisis. A survey found that 56 percent of Gen-Zers, the generation that I’m a part of and the largest age demographic in the world, believe that because of the climate crisis, humanity is doomed. This felt like a punch in the gut. I had just spent four and a half years and tens of thousands of dollars studying these things: countless time organizing on and off campus and energy getting involved with both local and national groups, yet most of my generation viewed it all as pointless.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate optimism 8
climate crisis 4
news stories 3
good news 3
younger generations 2
social media 2
fossil fuels 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
good news stories 2

Important Words


  1. age
  2. breaks
  3. campus
  4. climate
  5. college
  6. countless
  7. countries
  8. crisis
  9. demographic
  10. dollars
  11. doomed
  12. energy
  13. environmental
  14. feelings
  15. felt
  16. finals
  17. generation
  18. graduated
  19. groups
  20. gut
  21. humanity
  22. interest
  23. involved
  24. largest
  25. local
  26. national
  27. organizing
  28. part
  29. people
  30. percent
  31. piqued
  32. pointless
  33. punch
  34. science
  35. sociology
  36. spent
  37. studied
  38. study
  39. studying
  40. supposed
  41. survey
  42. ten
  43. tens
  44. thousands
  45. time
  46. viewed
  47. week
  48. world
  49. years
  50. young