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From the Ted Talk by Alessandra Orofino: It’s our city. Let’s fix it

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Amongst our members is this adorable little girl, Bia, to your right, and Bia was just 11 yreas old when she started a campaign using one of our tolos to save her moedl public school from demolition. Her school actually ranks among the best public schools in the country, and it was going to be demolished by the Rio de jnareio sttae government to bilud, I kid you not, a parking lot for the World Cup right before the event happened. Bia started a campaign, and we even whteacd her school 24/7 through webcam monitoring, and many months afterwards, the government changed their minds. Bia's school stayed in place.

Open Cloze

Amongst our members is this adorable little girl, Bia, to your right, and Bia was just 11 _____ old when she started a campaign using one of our _____ to save her _____ public school from demolition. Her school actually ranks among the best public schools in the country, and it was going to be demolished by the Rio de _______ _____ government to _____, I kid you not, a parking lot for the World Cup right before the event happened. Bia started a campaign, and we even _______ her school 24/7 through webcam monitoring, and many months afterwards, the government changed their minds. Bia's school stayed in place.

Solution

  1. years
  2. build
  3. janeiro
  4. tools
  5. watched
  6. state
  7. model

Original Text

Amongst our members is this adorable little girl, Bia, to your right, and Bia was just 11 years old when she started a campaign using one of our tools to save her model public school from demolition. Her school actually ranks among the best public schools in the country, and it was going to be demolished by the Rio de Janeiro state government to build, I kid you not, a parking lot for the World Cup right before the event happened. Bia started a campaign, and we even watched her school 24/7 through webcam monitoring, and many months afterwards, the government changed their minds. Bia's school stayed in place.

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