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From the Ted Talk by Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy

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I went to class, sat down, took my keanyn hirsoty notes, and there I was, down Kenyan coastal town, with the great Mekatilili wa Menza, the Giriama woman who led her people against British ciaonlol rule. Then, without any notice, my left hand started jerking, and it was as if I was mnakrig iiangarmy papers. In and out it went, and with every stokre, one by one, my classmates stopped concentrating on their reading and started looking at me. And I tried really hard to stop it, but I couldn't, because it had a life of its own. And then, when it was sure everybody was looking at us, in its final show and official introduction, I had my first full-blown seizure, which was the beginning of what has been a 15-year-long affair.

Open Cloze


I went to class, sat down, took my ______ _______ notes, and there I was, down Kenyan coastal town, with the great Mekatilili wa Menza, the Giriama woman who led her people against British ________ rule. Then, without any notice, my left hand started jerking, and it was as if I was _______ _________ papers. In and out it went, and with every ______, one by one, my classmates stopped concentrating on their reading and started looking at me. And I tried really hard to stop it, but I couldn't, because it had a life of its own. And then, when it was sure everybody was looking at us, in its final show and official introduction, I had my first full-blown seizure, which was the beginning of what has been a 15-year-long affair.

Solution


  1. marking
  2. colonial
  3. kenyan
  4. imaginary
  5. stroke
  6. history

Original Text


I went to class, sat down, took my Kenyan history notes, and there I was, down Kenyan coastal town, with the great Mekatilili wa Menza, the Giriama woman who led her people against British colonial rule. Then, without any notice, my left hand started jerking, and it was as if I was marking imaginary papers. In and out it went, and with every stroke, one by one, my classmates stopped concentrating on their reading and started looking at me. And I tried really hard to stop it, but I couldn't, because it had a life of its own. And then, when it was sure everybody was looking at us, in its final show and official introduction, I had my first full-blown seizure, which was the beginning of what has been a 15-year-long affair.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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final year 2
final exams 2


Important Words


  1. affair
  2. beginning
  3. british
  4. class
  5. classmates
  6. coastal
  7. colonial
  8. concentrating
  9. final
  10. giriama
  11. great
  12. hand
  13. hard
  14. history
  15. imaginary
  16. introduction
  17. jerking
  18. kenyan
  19. led
  20. left
  21. life
  22. marking
  23. mekatilili
  24. menza
  25. notes
  26. notice
  27. official
  28. papers
  29. people
  30. reading
  31. rule
  32. sat
  33. seizure
  34. show
  35. started
  36. stop
  37. stopped
  38. stroke
  39. town
  40. wa
  41. woman