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From the Ted Talk by Simon Anholt: Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country's election?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


But there you go. So suggestions, please, not right now, but send me an email if you've got an idea about what we can do with this amazing team of glorious ______. (Laughter) We've got Saviour _________, who I mentioned before. We've got Halla Tómasdóttir, who was the runner up in the _________ presidential election. Many of you may have seen her amazing talk at TEDWomen just a few weeks ago where she spoke about the need for more _____ to get into politics. We've got _____ das _____ from São Tomé and Príncipe. We've got Hillary Clinton. I don't know if she's available. We've got Jill Stein. And we covered also the election for the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. We've got the ex-prime minister of New Zealand, who would be a wonderful ______ of the team. So I think maybe those people, the ________ loser's club, could travel around the _____ wherever there's an election and remind people of the necessity in our modern age of thinking a little bit outwards and thinking of the international consequences.

Solution


  1. glorious
  2. icelandic
  3. neves
  4. chishimba
  5. maria
  6. world
  7. losers
  8. member
  9. women

Original Text


But there you go. So suggestions, please, not right now, but send me an email if you've got an idea about what we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers. (Laughter) We've got Saviour Chishimba, who I mentioned before. We've got Halla Tómasdóttir, who was the runner up in the Icelandic presidential election. Many of you may have seen her amazing talk at TEDWomen just a few weeks ago where she spoke about the need for more women to get into politics. We've got Maria das Neves from São Tomé and Príncipe. We've got Hillary Clinton. I don't know if she's available. We've got Jill Stein. And we covered also the election for the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. We've got the ex-prime minister of New Zealand, who would be a wonderful member of the team. So I think maybe those people, the glorious loser's club, could travel around the world wherever there's an election and remind people of the necessity in our modern age of thinking a little bit outwards and thinking of the international consequences.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
global vote 4
presidential election 3
são tomé 3
parallel universe 2
icelandic presidential 2
individual country 2
hillary clinton 2
small number 2
domestic electorate 2
good country 2


Important Words


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  25. modern
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  27. necessity
  28. neves
  29. outwards
  30. people
  31. politics
  32. presidential
  33. príncipe
  34. remind
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  36. saviour
  37. send
  38. spoke
  39. stein
  40. suggestions
  41. são
  42. talk
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  44. tedwomen
  45. thinking
  46. tomé
  47. travel
  48. tómasdóttir
  49. united
  50. weeks
  51. women
  52. wonderful
  53. world
  54. zealand