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From the Ted Talk by Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil

Unscramble the Blue Letters


As a culture, we tell ourselves lots of stories about the future, and where we might move forward from this point. Some of those stories are that somebody is just going to sort everything out for us. Other sotreis are that everything is on the verge of unraveling.

But I want to tell you a different story here today. Like all stories, it has a beginning. My work, for a long time, has been inelovvd in education, in tahcineg people practical skills for sustainability, teaching people how to take responsibility for growing some of their own food, how to build buildings using local mterlaias, how to generate their own energy, and so on.

Open Cloze


As a culture, we tell ourselves lots of stories about the future, and where we might move forward from this point. Some of those stories are that somebody is just going to sort everything out for us. Other _______ are that everything is on the verge of unraveling.

But I want to tell you a different story here today. Like all stories, it has a beginning. My work, for a long time, has been ________ in education, in ________ people practical skills for sustainability, teaching people how to take responsibility for growing some of their own food, how to build buildings using local _________, how to generate their own energy, and so on.

Solution


  1. stories
  2. involved
  3. teaching
  4. materials

Original Text


As a culture, we tell ourselves lots of stories about the future, and where we might move forward from this point. Some of those stories are that somebody is just going to sort everything out for us. Other stories are that everything is on the verge of unraveling.

But I want to tell you a different story here today. Like all stories, it has a beginning. My work, for a long time, has been involved in education, in teaching people practical skills for sustainability, teaching people how to take responsibility for growing some of their own food, how to build buildings using local materials, how to generate their own energy, and so on.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate change 3
transition groups 3
teaching people 2
magic porridge 2
local food 2


Important Words


  1. beginning
  2. build
  3. buildings
  4. culture
  5. education
  6. energy
  7. food
  8. future
  9. generate
  10. growing
  11. involved
  12. local
  13. long
  14. lots
  15. materials
  16. move
  17. people
  18. point
  19. practical
  20. responsibility
  21. skills
  22. sort
  23. stories
  24. story
  25. sustainability
  26. teaching
  27. time
  28. today
  29. unraveling
  30. verge
  31. work