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From the Ted Talk by Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And when I arrived in Singapore, and I agliopzoe for this, but I didn't want to get off my ship. I'd really loved being on board kdeanl. I'd been well treated by the crew, I'd had a garrulous and entertaining capiatn, and I would happily have signed up for another five weeks, something that the captain also said I was crazy to think about. But I wasn't there for nine months at a time like the Filipino seafarers, who, when I asked them to describe their job to me, called it "dollar for himesknsoecs." They had good slaaiers, but theirs is still an isolating and difficult life in a dangerous and often difficult element.

Open Cloze

And when I arrived in Singapore, and I _________ for this, but I didn't want to get off my ship. I'd really loved being on board ______. I'd been well treated by the crew, I'd had a garrulous and entertaining _______, and I would happily have signed up for another five weeks, something that the captain also said I was crazy to think about. But I wasn't there for nine months at a time like the Filipino seafarers, who, when I asked them to describe their job to me, called it "dollar for ____________." They had good ________, but theirs is still an isolating and difficult life in a dangerous and often difficult element.

Solution

  1. apologize
  2. homesickness
  3. salaries
  4. captain
  5. kendal

Original Text

And when I arrived in Singapore, and I apologize for this, but I didn't want to get off my ship. I'd really loved being on board Kendal. I'd been well treated by the crew, I'd had a garrulous and entertaining captain, and I would happily have signed up for another five weeks, something that the captain also said I was crazy to think about. But I wasn't there for nine months at a time like the Filipino seafarers, who, when I asked them to describe their job to me, called it "dollar for homesickness." They had good salaries, but theirs is still an isolating and difficult life in a dangerous and often difficult element.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
general public 3
container ship 3
board kendal 3
north atlantic 3
held hostage 2
sea blindness 2
shipping emissions 2
ocean creatures 2

Important Words

  1. apologize
  2. arrived
  3. asked
  4. board
  5. called
  6. captain
  7. crazy
  8. crew
  9. dangerous
  10. describe
  11. difficult
  12. element
  13. entertaining
  14. filipino
  15. garrulous
  16. good
  17. happily
  18. homesickness
  19. isolating
  20. job
  21. kendal
  22. life
  23. loved
  24. months
  25. salaries
  26. seafarers
  27. ship
  28. signed
  29. singapore
  30. time
  31. treated
  32. weeks