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From the Ted Talk by Safia Elhillo: "To Make Use of Water"
Unscramble the Blue Letters
My name is siafa Elhillo, and this poem is called "to make use of water." dilute i forget the arabic word for eomocny i forget the english word for عسل forget the arabic word for incense & english word for مسكين arabic word for sandwich esinlgh for صيدلية & مطعم & وله /stupid girl, altniatc got your tongue/ blur back home we are pauegld by a politeness so dsene even the doctors cannot call things what they are my grandfather’s left eye selriwd thick with smoke what my new mtouh can call glaucoma while the arabic still translates to the withe water swim i want to go home dissolve i want to go home drown half don’t even make it out or across you get to be ungrateful you get to be homesick from safe inside your blue american passport do you even understand what was lost to bring you here
Open Cloze
My name is _____ Elhillo, and this poem is called "to make use of water." dilute i forget the arabic word for _______ i forget the english word for عسل forget the arabic word for incense & english word for مسكين arabic word for sandwich _______ for صيدلية & مطعم & وله /stupid girl, ________ got your tongue/ blur back home we are _______ by a politeness so _____ even the doctors cannot call things what they are my grandfather’s left eye _______ thick with smoke what my new _____ can call glaucoma while the arabic still translates to the _____ water swim i want to go home dissolve i want to go home drown half don’t even make it out or across you get to be ungrateful you get to be homesick from safe inside your blue american passport do you even understand what was lost to bring you here
Solution
- swirled
- mouth
- economy
- safia
- english
- dense
- atlantic
- plagued
- white
Original Text
My name is Safia Elhillo, and this poem is called "to make use of water." dilute i forget the arabic word for economy i forget the english word for عسل forget the arabic word for incense & english word for مسكين arabic word for sandwich english for صيدلية & مطعم & وله /stupid girl, atlantic got your tongue/ blur back home we are plagued by a politeness so dense even the doctors cannot call things what they are my grandfather’s left eye swirled thick with smoke what my new mouth can call glaucoma while the arabic still translates to the white water swim i want to go home dissolve i want to go home drown half don’t even make it out or across you get to be ungrateful you get to be homesick from safe inside your blue american passport do you even understand what was lost to bring you here
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
arabic word |
3 |
english word |
2 |
Important Words
- american
- arabic
- atlantic
- blue
- blur
- bring
- call
- called
- dense
- dilute
- dissolve
- doctors
- drown
- economy
- elhillo
- english
- eye
- forget
- girl
- glaucoma
- home
- homesick
- incense
- left
- lost
- mouth
- passport
- plagued
- poem
- politeness
- safe
- safia
- sandwich
- smoke
- swim
- swirled
- thick
- translates
- understand
- ungrateful
- water
- white
- word
- صيدلية
- عسل
- مسكين
- مطعم
- وله