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From the Ted Talk by George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Then, in 2008, the niealoerbl story fell apart, and its opponents came forward with ... nothing. No new restoration story! The best they had to offer was a watered-down neoliberalism or a microwaved kysineainesm. And that is why we're stuck. Without that new story, we are stuck with the old failed story that keeps on failing. Despair is the state we fall into when our imagination fails. When we have no story that explains the present and describes the future, hope evaporates. Political failure is at heart a failure of imagination. Without a restoration story that can tell us where we need to go, nothing is going to change, but with such a restoration sorty, almost everything can change. The story we need to tell is a story which will appeal to as wide a rgane of people as possible, crossing political fulat lenis. It should rotensae with deep needs and desires. It should be simple and iebitnlligle, and it should be grounded in reality.
Open Cloze
Then, in 2008, the __________ story fell apart, and its opponents came forward with ... nothing. No new restoration story! The best they had to offer was a watered-down neoliberalism or a microwaved ____________. And that is why we're stuck. Without that new story, we are stuck with the old failed story that keeps on failing. Despair is the state we fall into when our imagination fails. When we have no story that explains the present and describes the future, hope evaporates. Political failure is at heart a failure of imagination. Without a restoration story that can tell us where we need to go, nothing is going to change, but with such a restoration _____, almost everything can change. The story we need to tell is a story which will appeal to as wide a _____ of people as possible, crossing political _____ _____. It should ________ with deep needs and desires. It should be simple and ____________, and it should be grounded in reality.
Solution
- fault
- intelligible
- story
- lines
- range
- resonate
- keynesianism
- neoliberal
Original Text
Then, in 2008, the neoliberal story fell apart, and its opponents came forward with ... nothing. No new restoration story! The best they had to offer was a watered-down neoliberalism or a microwaved Keynesianism. And that is why we're stuck. Without that new story, we are stuck with the old failed story that keeps on failing. Despair is the state we fall into when our imagination fails. When we have no story that explains the present and describes the future, hope evaporates. Political failure is at heart a failure of imagination. Without a restoration story that can tell us where we need to go, nothing is going to change, but with such a restoration story, almost everything can change. The story we need to tell is a story which will appeal to as wide a range of people as possible, crossing political fault lines. It should resonate with deep needs and desires. It should be simple and intelligible, and it should be grounded in reality.
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