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From the Ted Talk by Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, if we slip to another end of the world, I was up in the high Arctic to tell a stroy about gbloal warming, ineiprsd in part by the former Vice President's wrdfuonel book. And what struck me so extraordinary was to be again with the Inuit -- a ppoele who don't fear the cold, but take advantage of it. A people who find a way, with their imagination, to cvare life out of that very fezorn. A people for whom blood on ice is not a sign of death, but an affirmation of life. And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea ice used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in ntorhren Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March. So, their entire year has been cut in half.

Open Cloze


Now, if we slip to another end of the world, I was up in the high Arctic to tell a _____ about ______ warming, ________ in part by the former Vice President's _________ book. And what struck me so extraordinary was to be again with the Inuit -- a ______ who don't fear the cold, but take advantage of it. A people who find a way, with their imagination, to _____ life out of that very ______. A people for whom blood on ice is not a sign of death, but an affirmation of life. And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea ice used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in ________ Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March. So, their entire year has been cut in half.

Solution


  1. people
  2. global
  3. inspired
  4. wonderful
  5. frozen
  6. carve
  7. northern
  8. story

Original Text


Now, if we slip to another end of the world, I was up in the high Arctic to tell a story about global warming, inspired in part by the former Vice President's wonderful book. And what struck me so extraordinary was to be again with the Inuit -- a people who don't fear the cold, but take advantage of it. A people who find a way, with their imagination, to carve life out of that very frozen. A people for whom blood on ice is not a sign of death, but an affirmation of life. And yet tragically, when you now go to those northern communities, you find to your astonishment that whereas the sea ice used to come in in September and stay till July, in a place like Kanak in northern Greenland, it literally comes in now in November and stays until March. So, their entire year has been cut in half.

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Important Words


  1. advantage
  2. affirmation
  3. arctic
  4. astonishment
  5. blood
  6. book
  7. carve
  8. cold
  9. communities
  10. cut
  11. death
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  21. imagination
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  23. inuit
  24. july
  25. kanak
  26. life
  27. literally
  28. march
  29. northern
  30. november
  31. part
  32. people
  33. place
  34. sea
  35. september
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  40. story
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  43. vice
  44. warming
  45. wonderful
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  47. year