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From the Ted Talk by Gordon Brown: Global ethic vs. national interest

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Then the question is, how do you make that change happen? How do you persuade people that it is in their interest to build strong — After the Second World War, we built institutions, the untied Nations, the IMF, the wlord Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Marshall Plan. There was a period in which people talked about an act of creation, because these institutions were so new. But they are now out of date. They don't deal with the pbremols. You can't deal with the environmental problem through existing iotnunstitis. You can't deal with the security problem in the way that you need to. You can't deal with the economic and faiciannl problem. So we have got to rubelid our global institutions, biuld them in a way that is suitable to the challenges of this time.

Open Cloze

Then the question is, how do you make that change happen? How do you persuade people that it is in their interest to build strong — After the Second World War, we built institutions, the ______ Nations, the IMF, the _____ Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Marshall Plan. There was a period in which people talked about an act of creation, because these institutions were so new. But they are now out of date. They don't deal with the ________. You can't deal with the environmental problem through existing ____________. You can't deal with the security problem in the way that you need to. You can't deal with the economic and _________ problem. So we have got to _______ our global institutions, _____ them in a way that is suitable to the challenges of this time.

Solution

  1. rebuild
  2. problems
  3. build
  4. united
  5. institutions
  6. financial
  7. world

Original Text

Then the question is, how do you make that change happen? How do you persuade people that it is in their interest to build strong — After the Second World War, we built institutions, the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Marshall Plan. There was a period in which people talked about an act of creation, because these institutions were so new. But they are now out of date. They don't deal with the problems. You can't deal with the environmental problem through existing institutions. You can't deal with the security problem in the way that you need to. You can't deal with the economic and financial problem. So we have got to rebuild our global institutions, build them in a way that is suitable to the challenges of this time.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
climate change 7
global ethic 6
global society 3
persuade people 3
international institutions 3
global citizenship 2
richard nixon 2
cutting carbon 2
bill clinton 2

Important Words

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  29. rebuild
  30. security
  31. strong
  32. suitable
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  35. trade
  36. united
  37. war
  38. world