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From the Ted Talk by A.J. Jacobs: My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But can you do that while keeping your hands on the wheel? Because I am terrified." But we made it. And I met the farmers, the Guarnizo brothers. It's a small farm, they make garet coffee, they're paid above fair-trade prices for it. And they showed me how the coffee is grown. The bean is actually inside this fruit called the cffoee cherry. And I thanked them. And they said, "Well, we couldn't do our job without 100 other people." The machine that depulps the furit is made in birazl, and the pickup truck they drive around the farm, that is made from parts from all over the wrold. In fact, the US exports steel to Colombia. So I went to Indiana, and I thanked the setel makres. And it just drove home that it doesn't take a village to make a cup of coffee. It takes the world to make a cup of coffee.

Open Cloze

But can you do that while keeping your hands on the wheel? Because I am terrified." But we made it. And I met the farmers, the Guarnizo brothers. It's a small farm, they make _____ coffee, they're paid above fair-trade prices for it. And they showed me how the coffee is grown. The bean is actually inside this fruit called the ______ cherry. And I thanked them. And they said, "Well, we couldn't do our job without 100 other people." The machine that depulps the _____ is made in ______, and the pickup truck they drive around the farm, that is made from parts from all over the _____. In fact, the US exports steel to Colombia. So I went to Indiana, and I thanked the _____ ______. And it just drove home that it doesn't take a village to make a cup of coffee. It takes the world to make a cup of coffee.

Solution

  1. world
  2. coffee
  3. makers
  4. steel
  5. great
  6. fruit
  7. brazil

Original Text

But can you do that while keeping your hands on the wheel? Because I am terrified." But we made it. And I met the farmers, the Guarnizo brothers. It's a small farm, they make great coffee, they're paid above fair-trade prices for it. And they showed me how the coffee is grown. The bean is actually inside this fruit called the coffee cherry. And I thanked them. And they said, "Well, we couldn't do our job without 100 other people." The machine that depulps the fruit is made in Brazil, and the pickup truck they drive around the farm, that is made from parts from all over the world. In fact, the US exports steel to Colombia. So I went to Indiana, and I thanked the steel makers. And it just drove home that it doesn't take a village to make a cup of coffee. It takes the world to make a cup of coffee.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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