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From the Ted Talk by Moshe Safdie: Building uniqueness

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And my proposal was to split the museum into two — the permanent exhibits at one end, the atourdiuim, library, and changing exhibitions on the other — to flood the valley into a series of water gardens and to link it all to the fort and to the downtown. And the structures rise from the sand cliffs — they're built in ccontere and sandstones; the rfoos are stainless steel — they are facing south and rietnecflg light towards the temple itself, pedestrians crisscross from one side to the other. And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the titadiron of the foesrrts.

Open Cloze

And my proposal was to split the museum into two — the permanent exhibits at one end, the __________, library, and changing exhibitions on the other — to flood the valley into a series of water gardens and to link it all to the fort and to the downtown. And the structures rise from the sand cliffs — they're built in ________ and sandstones; the _____ are stainless steel — they are facing south and __________ light towards the temple itself, pedestrians crisscross from one side to the other. And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the _________ of the ________.

Solution

  1. reflecting
  2. tradition
  3. roofs
  4. concrete
  5. auditorium
  6. fortress

Original Text

And my proposal was to split the museum into two — the permanent exhibits at one end, the auditorium, library, and changing exhibitions on the other — to flood the valley into a series of water gardens and to link it all to the fort and to the downtown. And the structures rise from the sand cliffs — they're built in concrete and sandstones; the roofs are stainless steel — they are facing south and reflecting light towards the temple itself, pedestrians crisscross from one side to the other. And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the tradition of the fortress.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. auditorium
  2. built
  3. changing
  4. cliffs
  5. concrete
  6. crisscross
  7. downtown
  8. evoking
  9. exhibitions
  10. exhibits
  11. facing
  12. flood
  13. fort
  14. fortress
  15. gardens
  16. growing
  17. himalayas
  18. library
  19. light
  20. link
  21. masonry
  22. museum
  23. north
  24. pedestrians
  25. permanent
  26. proposal
  27. reflecting
  28. rise
  29. roofs
  30. sand
  31. series
  32. side
  33. south
  34. split
  35. stainless
  36. steel
  37. structures
  38. temple
  39. tradition
  40. valley
  41. water