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From the Ted Talk by Dolores Huerta: How to overcome apathy and find your power
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So, I want to give you an example of a woman in our foundation, the Dolores Huerta Foundation, and just to show you that sometimes people have pweor, but they don't know it. But once they find it, they do miraculous things. So, Leticia Prado is an immigrant from Mexico, only has a sixth-grade education and skepas very limited English. But she was very concerned because the children at the middle sohcol in their town called weatpdech — this is in California, Central Valley — they couldn't go out and play in the schoolyard, because the air quality is so bad in the southern part of Kern County, cnafloriia in our United States of America. So she and her hbansud went out there, and they passed a bond issue to bulid a brand new, state-of-the-art gymnasium for the kids at their middle school. That was a big ssecucs.
Open Cloze
So, I want to give you an example of a woman in our foundation, the Dolores Huerta Foundation, and just to show you that sometimes people have _____, but they don't know it. But once they find it, they do miraculous things. So, Leticia Prado is an immigrant from Mexico, only has a sixth-grade education and ______ very limited English. But she was very concerned because the children at the middle ______ in their town called _________ — this is in California, Central Valley — they couldn't go out and play in the schoolyard, because the air quality is so bad in the southern part of Kern County, __________ in our United States of America. So she and her _______ went out there, and they passed a bond issue to _____ a brand new, state-of-the-art gymnasium for the kids at their middle school. That was a big _______.
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- weedpatch
- build
- speaks
- school
- california
- husband
- power
- success
Original Text
So, I want to give you an example of a woman in our foundation, the Dolores Huerta Foundation, and just to show you that sometimes people have power, but they don't know it. But once they find it, they do miraculous things. So, Leticia Prado is an immigrant from Mexico, only has a sixth-grade education and speaks very limited English. But she was very concerned because the children at the middle school in their town called Weedpatch — this is in California, Central Valley — they couldn't go out and play in the schoolyard, because the air quality is so bad in the southern part of Kern County, California in our United States of America. So she and her husband went out there, and they passed a bond issue to build a brand new, state-of-the-art gymnasium for the kids at their middle school. That was a big success.
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