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From the Ted Talk by Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands

Unscramble the Blue Letters

My journey to become a polar siaisplcet, pangprotihohg, specializing in the polar regions, began when I was four years old, when my family mevod from steoruhn Canada to Northern bffain Island, up by Greenland. There we lived with the Inuit in the tiny iuint community of 200 Inuit people, where [we] were one of three non-Inuit families. And in this community, we didn't have a television; we didn't have ctouermps, obviously, radio. We didn't even have a telephone. All of my time was spent outside with the Inuit, playing. The snow and the ice were my sandbox, and the Inuit were my teachers. And that's where I became truly obsessed with this polar realm. And I knew someday that I was going to do something that had to do with trying to share news about it and protect it.

Open Cloze

My journey to become a polar __________, _____________, specializing in the polar regions, began when I was four years old, when my family _____ from ________ Canada to Northern ______ Island, up by Greenland. There we lived with the Inuit in the tiny _____ community of 200 Inuit people, where [we] were one of three non-Inuit families. And in this community, we didn't have a television; we didn't have _________, obviously, radio. We didn't even have a telephone. All of my time was spent outside with the Inuit, playing. The snow and the ice were my sandbox, and the Inuit were my teachers. And that's where I became truly obsessed with this polar realm. And I knew someday that I was going to do something that had to do with trying to share news about it and protect it.

Solution

  1. specialist
  2. baffin
  3. southern
  4. computers
  5. moved
  6. photographing
  7. inuit

Original Text

My journey to become a polar specialist, photographing, specializing in the polar regions, began when I was four years old, when my family moved from southern Canada to Northern Baffin Island, up by Greenland. There we lived with the Inuit in the tiny Inuit community of 200 Inuit people, where [we] were one of three non-Inuit families. And in this community, we didn't have a television; we didn't have computers, obviously, radio. We didn't even have a telephone. All of my time was spent outside with the Inuit, playing. The snow and the ice were my sandbox, and the Inuit were my teachers. And that's where I became truly obsessed with this polar realm. And I knew someday that I was going to do something that had to do with trying to share news about it and protect it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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