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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
- apologize
- homesickness
- salaries
- captain
- 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
- apologize
- arrived
- asked
- board
- called
- captain
- crazy
- crew
- dangerous
- describe
- difficult
- element
- entertaining
- filipino
- garrulous
- good
- happily
- homesickness
- isolating
- job
- kendal
- life
- loved
- months
- salaries
- seafarers
- ship
- signed
- singapore
- time
- treated
- weeks