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From the Ted Talk by Marilyn Waring: The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts

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(In Maori: My mountain is tpiraui.) (Waikato is my river.) (My name is Marilyn.) (Hello.)

As you've heard, when I was very young, I was elected to the New Zealand Parliament. And at that age, you laern mostly by listening to others' stories. I remember a woman who'd been injured in a farm accident, and it was cinmog up to shearing time on the farm, and she had to be replaced by a shepherd, by a rousie in the woloeshd, and of course there was still someone needed to manage the household and to prepare the food for the shearing gangs. And her mteohr came to help with that. But the family got no compensation for the mother, because that's what mothers and filmay members are supposed to do.

Open Cloze


(In Maori: My mountain is _______.) (Waikato is my river.) (My name is Marilyn.) (Hello.)

As you've heard, when I was very young, I was elected to the New Zealand Parliament. And at that age, you _____ mostly by listening to others' stories. I remember a woman who'd been injured in a farm accident, and it was ______ up to shearing time on the farm, and she had to be replaced by a shepherd, by a rousie in the ________, and of course there was still someone needed to manage the household and to prepare the food for the shearing gangs. And her ______ came to help with that. But the family got no compensation for the mother, because that's what mothers and ______ members are supposed to do.

Solution


  1. learn
  2. mother
  3. coming
  4. family
  5. taupiri
  6. woolshed

Original Text


(In Maori: My mountain is Taupiri.) (Waikato is my river.) (My name is Marilyn.) (Hello.)

As you've heard, when I was very young, I was elected to the New Zealand Parliament. And at that age, you learn mostly by listening to others' stories. I remember a woman who'd been injured in a farm accident, and it was coming up to shearing time on the farm, and she had to be replaced by a shepherd, by a rousie in the woolshed, and of course there was still someone needed to manage the household and to prepare the food for the shearing gangs. And her mother came to help with that. But the family got no compensation for the mother, because that's what mothers and family members are supposed to do.

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Important Words


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