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From the Ted Talk by Aditi Gupta: A taboo-free way to talk about periods

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So we decided to create a comic book, where the cartoon characters would enact these stories and educate girls about menstruation in a fun and eanniggg way. To represent girls in their different phases of puberty, we have three carctrheas. Pinki, who has not gotten her period yet, Jiya who gets her period during the narrative of the book and Mira who has already been getting her piroed. There is a fourth character, Priya Didi. Through her, girls come to know about the various astepcs of growing up and msearntul hygiene management.

Open Cloze

So we decided to create a comic book, where the cartoon characters would enact these stories and educate girls about menstruation in a fun and ________ way. To represent girls in their different phases of puberty, we have three __________. Pinki, who has not gotten her period yet, Jiya who gets her period during the narrative of the book and Mira who has already been getting her ______. There is a fourth character, Priya Didi. Through her, girls come to know about the various _______ of growing up and _________ hygiene management.

Solution

  1. aspects
  2. menstrual
  3. period
  4. characters
  5. engaging

Original Text

So we decided to create a comic book, where the cartoon characters would enact these stories and educate girls about menstruation in a fun and engaging way. To represent girls in their different phases of puberty, we have three characters. Pinki, who has not gotten her period yet, Jiya who gets her period during the narrative of the book and Mira who has already been getting her period. There is a fourth character, Priya Didi. Through her, girls come to know about the various aspects of growing up and menstrual hygiene management.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
educate girls 3
teach girls 3
menstrual hygiene 2
menstruating girls 2
restrictive customs 2
girls curious 2
menstrual awareness 2

Important Words

  1. aspects
  2. book
  3. cartoon
  4. character
  5. characters
  6. comic
  7. create
  8. decided
  9. didi
  10. educate
  11. enact
  12. engaging
  13. fourth
  14. fun
  15. girls
  16. growing
  17. hygiene
  18. jiya
  19. management
  20. menstrual
  21. menstruation
  22. mira
  23. narrative
  24. period
  25. phases
  26. pinki
  27. priya
  28. puberty
  29. represent
  30. stories