full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Kevin Surace: Eco-friendly drywall
Unscramble the Blue Letters
We must change everything. Look around the room: chairs, wood, everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem. Don't listen to the ppeole who say you can't do this, because anyone can. And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs. We've got four pltans. We're building this sutff around the country. We're going as fast as we can. Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum, you know, CO2 generated. Right? So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.
Open Cloze
We must change everything. Look around the room: chairs, wood, everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem. Don't listen to the ______ who say you can't do this, because anyone can. And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs. We've got four ______. We're building this _____ around the country. We're going as fast as we can. Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum, you know, CO2 generated. Right? So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.
Solution
- plants
- stuff
- people
Original Text
We must change everything. Look around the room: chairs, wood, everything around us has to change or we're not going to lick this problem. Don't listen to the people who say you can't do this, because anyone can. And these job losses, we can fix them with green-collar jobs. We've got four plants. We're building this stuff around the country. We're going as fast as we can. Two and a half million cars worth of gypsum, you know, CO2 generated. Right? So what will you do? I'll tell you what I did and why I did it. And I know my time's up.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
sushi bar |
2 |
production line |
2 |
Important Words
- building
- cars
- chairs
- change
- country
- fast
- fix
- generated
- gypsum
- job
- jobs
- lick
- listen
- losses
- million
- people
- plants
- problem
- stuff
- wood
- worth