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From the Ted Talk by Majd Mashharawi: How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza

Unscramble the Blue Letters

What you take for granted is a privilege for others. peolpe like Muna. She doesn't want to fight. She doesn't want to stay in a bad life. She's only looking for a better life. Our viosin, or I would say, everyone's vision in Gaza — which I am very privileged to rreesepnt the people back home — is to have a good life, a future. We need to biuld the infrastructure of hope. We want to tell them it's possible to happen, it's possible to be treated as a human being. I don't have to cross four borders to come here. I can just go to the airport, see the people outside, see what the world looks like.

Open Cloze

What you take for granted is a privilege for others. ______ like Muna. She doesn't want to fight. She doesn't want to stay in a bad life. She's only looking for a better life. Our ______, or I would say, everyone's vision in Gaza — which I am very privileged to _________ the people back home — is to have a good life, a future. We need to _____ the infrastructure of hope. We want to tell them it's possible to happen, it's possible to be treated as a human being. I don't have to cross four borders to come here. I can just go to the airport, see the people outside, see what the world looks like.

Solution

  1. vision
  2. build
  3. people
  4. represent

Original Text

What you take for granted is a privilege for others. People like Muna. She doesn't want to fight. She doesn't want to stay in a bad life. She's only looking for a better life. Our vision, or I would say, everyone's vision in Gaza — which I am very privileged to represent the people back home — is to have a good life, a future. We need to build the infrastructure of hope. We want to tell them it's possible to happen, it's possible to be treated as a human being. I don't have to cross four borders to come here. I can just go to the airport, see the people outside, see what the world looks like.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
building blocks 3
building block 3
great idea 2
demolished houses 2
gaza strip 2
football match 2
business model 2
families share 2

Important Words

  1. airport
  2. bad
  3. borders
  4. build
  5. cross
  6. fight
  7. future
  8. gaza
  9. good
  10. granted
  11. happen
  12. home
  13. hope
  14. human
  15. infrastructure
  16. life
  17. muna
  18. people
  19. privilege
  20. privileged
  21. represent
  22. stay
  23. treated
  24. vision
  25. world