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From the Ted Talk by Huma Yusuf: A new social contract for global climate justice
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Huma Yusuf: Thank you for that question. You know, we’re just a month into the declaration of a national emergency, and the floods are already snplipig out of the news hleiaends in Pakistan. I think we're really suffering from the fact that the 24-hour news cycle does not know how to tell this story, a story so big, a story that requires you to connect the dots to every other sroty you will ever tell, whether we're talking about food, the economy, insecurity, domestic militancy. There is no story that can be told without also tielnlg this story. But unfortunately, I don’t think we have that mdeia lcaetriy, and the floods are already receding out of our own headlines. So what can we expect from the international press?
Open Cloze
Huma Yusuf: Thank you for that question. You know, we’re just a month into the declaration of a national emergency, and the floods are already ________ out of the news _________ in Pakistan. I think we're really suffering from the fact that the 24-hour news cycle does not know how to tell this story, a story so big, a story that requires you to connect the dots to every other _____ you will ever tell, whether we're talking about food, the economy, insecurity, domestic militancy. There is no story that can be told without also _______ this story. But unfortunately, I don’t think we have that _____ ________, and the floods are already receding out of our own headlines. So what can we expect from the international press?
Solution
- story
- literacy
- media
- headlines
- telling
- slipping
Original Text
Huma Yusuf: Thank you for that question. You know, we’re just a month into the declaration of a national emergency, and the floods are already slipping out of the news headlines in Pakistan. I think we're really suffering from the fact that the 24-hour news cycle does not know how to tell this story, a story so big, a story that requires you to connect the dots to every other story you will ever tell, whether we're talking about food, the economy, insecurity, domestic militancy. There is no story that can be told without also telling this story. But unfortunately, I don’t think we have that media literacy, and the floods are already receding out of our own headlines. So what can we expect from the international press?
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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collocation |
frequency |
developing countries |
6 |
developed countries |
3 |
global greenhouse |
2 |
climate change |
2 |
global north |
2 |
global south |
2 |
climate disasters |
2 |
climate justice |
2 |
bad behavior |
2 |
Important Words
- big
- connect
- cycle
- declaration
- domestic
- dots
- economy
- emergency
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- floods
- food
- headlines
- huma
- insecurity
- international
- literacy
- media
- militancy
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- national
- news
- pakistan
- press
- question
- receding
- requires
- slipping
- story
- suffering
- talking
- telling
- told