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From the Ted Talk by Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I grew up with the colors of war — the red colors of fire and bolod, the bworn tones of earth as it explodes in our fceas and the piercing silver of an exploded missile, so bright that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war — the staccato snudos of gurifne, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead and the wliinag warning sounds of sirens. These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dnnsasiot concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of cihdelrn and the thunderous, urbbeanale silence. "War," a friend of mine said, "is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity."

Open Cloze


I grew up with the colors of war — the red colors of fire and _____, the _____ tones of earth as it explodes in our _____ and the piercing silver of an exploded missile, so bright that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war — the staccato ______ of _______, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead and the _______ warning sounds of sirens. These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of _________ concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of ________ and the thunderous, __________ silence. "War," a friend of mine said, "is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity."

Solution


  1. sounds
  2. dissonant
  3. faces
  4. gunfire
  5. children
  6. unbearable
  7. blood
  8. brown
  9. wailing

Original Text


I grew up with the colors of war — the red colors of fire and blood, the brown tones of earth as it explodes in our faces and the piercing silver of an exploded missile, so bright that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war — the staccato sounds of gunfire, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead and the wailing warning sounds of sirens. These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dissonant concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence. "War," a friend of mine said, "is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity."

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