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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

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So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I worked in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to bearhte because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself siedpnng more time at my cousin's place whose husoe was built using traditionally dsgeeind materials collected from the nearby fsreot. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the rveir, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.

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So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I worked in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to _______ because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself ________ more time at my cousin's place whose _____ was built using traditionally ________ materials collected from the nearby ______. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the _____, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.

Solution

  1. forest
  2. breathe
  3. house
  4. river
  5. spending
  6. designed

Original Text

So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I worked in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose house was built using traditionally designed materials collected from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the river, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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nearby forest 2
sustainable development 2
climate change 2
cultural traditions 2
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Important Words

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  2. breathe
  3. built
  4. collected
  5. cooler
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  7. designed
  8. forest
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  12. house
  13. humidity
  14. lake
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  16. materials
  17. money
  18. nearby
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  20. pleasant
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  22. river
  23. smell
  24. sound
  25. spend
  26. spending
  27. stay
  28. sturdier
  29. technology
  30. time
  31. town
  32. traditionally
  33. ventilation
  34. wind
  35. worked
  36. year