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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Youn: The seeds of change helping African farmers grow out of poverty

Unscramble the Blue Letters


[In Rwanda, One Acre Fund operates under the name Tubura, which means “to grow exponentially.“]

(Voice-over) TN: I heard about TUBURA when the feild officer came to meet farmers who had jonied before me. I had seen how they were farming and I asked them, "Where do you get the frizteiler to yield such a good harvest?" They told me they get it from TUBURA.

[picre Claudine, Field ocieffr ONE ACRE FUND / TUBURA]

(Voice-over) (In Kinyarwanda) PC: I first met Therese in 2018. She was eager to learn modern agricultural methods.

(weomn speaking)

TN: My haersvt was not enough to feed my family. I struggled to feed my ceihrldn. I decided to expand my land to increase my harvest.

Open Cloze


[In Rwanda, One Acre Fund operates under the name Tubura, which means “to grow exponentially.“]

(Voice-over) TN: I heard about TUBURA when the _____ officer came to meet farmers who had ______ before me. I had seen how they were farming and I asked them, "Where do you get the __________ to yield such a good harvest?" They told me they get it from TUBURA.

[_____ Claudine, Field _______ ONE ACRE FUND / TUBURA]

(Voice-over) (In Kinyarwanda) PC: I first met Therese in 2018. She was eager to learn modern agricultural methods.

(_____ speaking)

TN: My _______ was not enough to feed my family. I struggled to feed my ________. I decided to expand my land to increase my harvest.

Solution


  1. field
  2. officer
  3. children
  4. fertilizer
  5. price
  6. joined
  7. harvest
  8. women

Original Text


[In Rwanda, One Acre Fund operates under the name Tubura, which means “to grow exponentially.“]

(Voice-over) TN: I heard about TUBURA when the field officer came to meet farmers who had joined before me. I had seen how they were farming and I asked them, "Where do you get the fertilizer to yield such a good harvest?" They told me they get it from TUBURA.

[Price Claudine, Field Officer ONE ACRE FUND / TUBURA]

(Voice-over) (In Kinyarwanda) PC: I first met Therese in 2018. She was eager to learn modern agricultural methods.

(Women speaking)

TN: My harvest was not enough to feed my family. I struggled to feed my children. I decided to expand my land to increase my harvest.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million families 4
acre fund 3
field officer 2
farm inputs 2


Important Words


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  4. children
  5. claudine
  6. decided
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  13. feed
  14. fertilizer
  15. field
  16. fund
  17. good
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  21. increase
  22. joined
  23. kinyarwanda
  24. land
  25. learn
  26. means
  27. meet
  28. met
  29. methods
  30. modern
  31. officer
  32. operates
  33. price
  34. rwanda
  35. speaking
  36. struggled
  37. therese
  38. told
  39. tubura
  40. women
  41. yield