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From the Ted Talk by Tomás Saraceno: Would you live in a floating city in the sky?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
In 2007, with a community of people all over the wrlod, we began to collect used plastic bags — not new ones. And we washed them, we cut them up, we glued them together, and we began to draw on them, creating a huge canvas. We made a coiecllotn of drawings, of personal stories and of friendships. And when you join them, bend them and fold them, it creates a space full of air. When the sun comes up from the horizon, the muuesm rises up to the sky. That's why we call it, "The Aero-Solar Museum." And from this simple idea, we learned how to float in the air in a rilaldacy new way, without using any type of fuel. The dfiefrncee in temperature between the interior and the exterior is what makes us rise up. That way, we don't use fisosl felus or helium or hydrogen; we don't use solar panels or batteries or motors. We discovered a way that's smilpe, claen and accessible to the whole world to lift ourselves up.
Open Cloze
In 2007, with a community of people all over the _____, we began to collect used plastic bags — not new ones. And we washed them, we cut them up, we glued them together, and we began to draw on them, creating a huge canvas. We made a __________ of drawings, of personal stories and of friendships. And when you join them, bend them and fold them, it creates a space full of air. When the sun comes up from the horizon, the ______ rises up to the sky. That's why we call it, "The Aero-Solar Museum." And from this simple idea, we learned how to float in the air in a _________ new way, without using any type of fuel. The __________ in temperature between the interior and the exterior is what makes us rise up. That way, we don't use ______ _____ or helium or hydrogen; we don't use solar panels or batteries or motors. We discovered a way that's ______, _____ and accessible to the whole world to lift ourselves up.
Solution
- world
- museum
- difference
- fossil
- clean
- simple
- collection
- fuels
- radically
Original Text
In 2007, with a community of people all over the world, we began to collect used plastic bags — not new ones. And we washed them, we cut them up, we glued them together, and we began to draw on them, creating a huge canvas. We made a collection of drawings, of personal stories and of friendships. And when you join them, bend them and fold them, it creates a space full of air. When the sun comes up from the horizon, the museum rises up to the sky. That's why we call it, "The Aero-Solar Museum." And from this simple idea, we learned how to float in the air in a radically new way, without using any type of fuel. The difference in temperature between the interior and the exterior is what makes us rise up. That way, we don't use fossil fuels or helium or hydrogen; we don't use solar panels or batteries or motors. We discovered a way that's simple, clean and accessible to the whole world to lift ourselves up.
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