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From the Ted Talk by DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Come with me to Agbogbloshie, a nbioorgehhod in the heart of Accra, nemad after a god that lives in the Odaw River. There's a slum, Old Fadama, built on land reclaimed from the Korle Lagoon, just before it oepns into the Gulf of Guinea. There's a scrapyard here where ppoele take apart all kinds of things, from mobile phneos to computers, automobiles to even entire airplanes.

Agbogbloshie's scrapyard is famous because it has become a symbol of the downside of technology: the problem of planned obsolescence. It's seen as a pacle where devices from around the world end their life, where your data comes to die.

Open Cloze


Come with me to Agbogbloshie, a ____________ in the heart of Accra, _____ after a god that lives in the Odaw River. There's a slum, Old Fadama, built on land reclaimed from the Korle Lagoon, just before it _____ into the Gulf of Guinea. There's a scrapyard here where ______ take apart all kinds of things, from mobile ______ to computers, automobiles to even entire airplanes.

Agbogbloshie's scrapyard is famous because it has become a symbol of the downside of technology: the problem of planned obsolescence. It's seen as a _____ where devices from around the world end their life, where your data comes to die.

Solution


  1. place
  2. people
  3. opens
  4. phones
  5. named
  6. neighborhood

Original Text


Come with me to Agbogbloshie, a neighborhood in the heart of Accra, named after a god that lives in the Odaw River. There's a slum, Old Fadama, built on land reclaimed from the Korle Lagoon, just before it opens into the Gulf of Guinea. There's a scrapyard here where people take apart all kinds of things, from mobile phones to computers, automobiles to even entire airplanes.

Agbogbloshie's scrapyard is famous because it has become a symbol of the downside of technology: the problem of planned obsolescence. It's seen as a place where devices from around the world end their life, where your data comes to die.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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welding machines 2
informal sector 2
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french fry 2
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Important Words


  1. accra
  2. agbogbloshie
  3. airplanes
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  6. computers
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  26. neighborhood
  27. obsolescence
  28. odaw
  29. opens
  30. people
  31. phones
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  35. reclaimed
  36. river
  37. scrapyard
  38. slum
  39. symbol
  40. world