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From the Ted Talk by Georges C. Benjamin: The secret weapon against pandemics

Unscramble the Blue Letters

GB: Yeah, we really do need to reopen safely and carefully, and it means that we have not got to fgoert these public heatlh merseaus that really brought down the curve to begin with. And that means thing such as covering up your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze, wearing a mask, washing your hands, physically distancing yourself to the eexntt possible from others. Thinking about everything we do, you know, before we go to work in the morning, while we're at work. And being as careful as many of us have been in the last two months, as we go into the next three mtohns, because this thing is not over.

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GB: Yeah, we really do need to reopen safely and carefully, and it means that we have not got to ______ these public ______ ________ that really brought down the curve to begin with. And that means thing such as covering up your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze, wearing a mask, washing your hands, physically distancing yourself to the ______ possible from others. Thinking about everything we do, you know, before we go to work in the morning, while we're at work. And being as careful as many of us have been in the last two months, as we go into the next three ______, because this thing is not over.

Solution

  1. health
  2. forget
  3. extent
  4. measures
  5. months

Original Text

GB: Yeah, we really do need to reopen safely and carefully, and it means that we have not got to forget these public health measures that really brought down the curve to begin with. And that means thing such as covering up your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze, wearing a mask, washing your hands, physically distancing yourself to the extent possible from others. Thinking about everything we do, you know, before we go to work in the morning, while we're at work. And being as careful as many of us have been in the last two months, as we go into the next three months, because this thing is not over.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. brought
  2. careful
  3. carefully
  4. cough
  5. covering
  6. curve
  7. distancing
  8. extent
  9. forget
  10. hands
  11. health
  12. mask
  13. means
  14. measures
  15. months
  16. morning
  17. mouth
  18. nose
  19. physically
  20. public
  21. reopen
  22. safely
  23. sneeze
  24. thinking
  25. washing
  26. wearing
  27. work
  28. yeah