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From the Ted Talk by Clemantine Wamariya: War and what comes after

Unscramble the Blue Letters


When I was 12, I came to America with Claire and her family on rgeefue satuts. And that's only the beginning, because even though I was 12 years old, sometimes I felt like three years old and sometimes 50 years old. My past receded, grew jumbled, distorted. Everything was too much and nothing. Time seemed like pages torn out of a book and scattered everywhere. This still happens to me standing right here.

After I got to America, Claire and I did not talk about our past. In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family, and then seven years kwnniog that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we rituened ... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on tieovliesn —

Open Cloze


When I was 12, I came to America with Claire and her family on _______ ______. And that's only the beginning, because even though I was 12 years old, sometimes I felt like three years old and sometimes 50 years old. My past receded, grew jumbled, distorted. Everything was too much and nothing. Time seemed like pages torn out of a book and scattered everywhere. This still happens to me standing right here.

After I got to America, Claire and I did not talk about our past. In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family, and then seven years _______ that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we ________ ... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on __________ —

Solution


  1. reunited
  2. television
  3. refugee
  4. status
  5. knowing

Original Text


When I was 12, I came to America with Claire and her family on refugee status. And that's only the beginning, because even though I was 12 years old, sometimes I felt like three years old and sometimes 50 years old. My past receded, grew jumbled, distorted. Everything was too much and nothing. Time seemed like pages torn out of a book and scattered everywhere. This still happens to me standing right here.

After I got to America, Claire and I did not talk about our past. In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family, and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited ... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on television —

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. america
  2. american
  3. beginning
  4. book
  5. claire
  6. dead
  7. distorted
  8. dramatic
  9. family
  10. felt
  11. grew
  12. jumbled
  13. knowing
  14. live
  15. pages
  16. receded
  17. refugee
  18. reunited
  19. scattered
  20. separated
  21. standing
  22. status
  23. talk
  24. television
  25. thinking
  26. time
  27. torn
  28. years