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From the Ted Talk by Caroline Harper: What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Then "A" stands for "antibiotics." These are donated by pzfeir, who also pay for those drgus to be toprreanstd to the port in-country. From there, they're taken to the villages, where hundreds of thousands of commtniuy volunteers will distribute those drugs to the people. Now, we train those volunteers, and we also help the ministries with all that complex logistics. And every one of those veetlrouns has a pole like this. It's called a "dose pole." This one's from Cameroon. And you can see it's marked different colors, and you can tell how many pills you should give somebody, based on how tall they are.

Open Cloze


Then "A" stands for "antibiotics." These are donated by ______, who also pay for those _____ to be ___________ to the port in-country. From there, they're taken to the villages, where hundreds of thousands of _________ volunteers will distribute those drugs to the people. Now, we train those volunteers, and we also help the ministries with all that complex logistics. And every one of those __________ has a pole like this. It's called a "dose pole." This one's from Cameroon. And you can see it's marked different colors, and you can tell how many pills you should give somebody, based on how tall they are.

Solution


  1. community
  2. drugs
  3. pfizer
  4. transported
  5. volunteers

Original Text


Then "A" stands for "antibiotics." These are donated by Pfizer, who also pay for those drugs to be transported to the port in-country. From there, they're taken to the villages, where hundreds of thousands of community volunteers will distribute those drugs to the people. Now, we train those volunteers, and we also help the ministries with all that complex logistics. And every one of those volunteers has a pole like this. It's called a "dose pole." This one's from Cameroon. And you can see it's marked different colors, and you can tell how many pills you should give somebody, based on how tall they are.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. based
  2. called
  3. cameroon
  4. colors
  5. community
  6. complex
  7. distribute
  8. donated
  9. drugs
  10. give
  11. hundreds
  12. logistics
  13. marked
  14. ministries
  15. pay
  16. people
  17. pfizer
  18. pills
  19. pole
  20. port
  21. stands
  22. tall
  23. thousands
  24. train
  25. transported
  26. villages
  27. volunteers