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From the Ted Talk by Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities

Unscramble the Blue Letters

On the street in Mumbai, during the Ganesh festival, a transformation. A community hall is created for 10 days. Bollywood fmils are sohwn, thousands ctaorggnee for dneinrs and celebration. It's made out of paper-mache and plaster of Paris. Designed to be disassembled, and in 10 days, overnight, it disappears, and the street goes back to aoiymnnty. Or our wonderful open sapces, we call them maidans. And it's used for this incredibly nuanced and complicated, fascinating Indian game, called cricket, which, I believe, the British invented.

Open Cloze

On the street in Mumbai, during the Ganesh festival, a transformation. A community hall is created for 10 days. Bollywood _____ are _____, thousands __________ for _______ and celebration. It's made out of paper-mache and plaster of Paris. Designed to be disassembled, and in 10 days, overnight, it disappears, and the street goes back to _________. Or our wonderful open ______, we call them maidans. And it's used for this incredibly nuanced and complicated, fascinating Indian game, called cricket, which, I believe, the British invented.

Solution

  1. spaces
  2. dinners
  3. shown
  4. congregate
  5. films
  6. anonymity

Original Text

On the street in Mumbai, during the Ganesh festival, a transformation. A community hall is created for 10 days. Bollywood films are shown, thousands congregate for dinners and celebration. It's made out of paper-mache and plaster of Paris. Designed to be disassembled, and in 10 days, overnight, it disappears, and the street goes back to anonymity. Or our wonderful open spaces, we call them maidans. And it's used for this incredibly nuanced and complicated, fascinating Indian game, called cricket, which, I believe, the British invented.

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Important Words

  1. anonymity
  2. bollywood
  3. british
  4. call
  5. called
  6. celebration
  7. community
  8. complicated
  9. congregate
  10. created
  11. cricket
  12. days
  13. designed
  14. dinners
  15. disappears
  16. disassembled
  17. fascinating
  18. festival
  19. films
  20. game
  21. ganesh
  22. hall
  23. incredibly
  24. indian
  25. invented
  26. maidans
  27. mumbai
  28. nuanced
  29. open
  30. overnight
  31. paris
  32. plaster
  33. shown
  34. spaces
  35. street
  36. thousands
  37. transformation
  38. wonderful