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From the Ted Talk by Bart Knols: 3 new ways to kill mosquitoes

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What I'm going to show you is, I'm gnnoa stick my arm into it and I will show you how quickly they will bite. There we go. Don't worry, I do this all the time in the lab. There we go. OK. Now, on the video — on the video here, I'm going to show you exactly the same thing, except that what I'm showing you on the video happened one hour after I took the tablet. Have a look. That doesn't work. OK. Sorry about that. I'm sticking in my arm, I'm gvniig them a big juicy boold meal, I'm shkniag them off, and we flolow them through time to see these mosquitoes get very, very sick indeed, here shown in fast motion. And three hours later, what we see at the bottom of the cage is dead mosquitoes ... very dead mosquitoes. And I'm going to say, ladies and gtneeelmn, we have sppwead the cards with mosquitoes. They don't kill us. We kill them.

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What I'm going to show you is, I'm _____ stick my arm into it and I will show you how quickly they will bite. There we go. Don't worry, I do this all the time in the lab. There we go. OK. Now, on the video — on the video here, I'm going to show you exactly the same thing, except that what I'm showing you on the video happened one hour after I took the tablet. Have a look. That doesn't work. OK. Sorry about that. I'm sticking in my arm, I'm ______ them a big juicy _____ meal, I'm _______ them off, and we ______ them through time to see these mosquitoes get very, very sick indeed, here shown in fast motion. And three hours later, what we see at the bottom of the cage is dead mosquitoes ... very dead mosquitoes. And I'm going to say, ladies and _________, we have _______ the cards with mosquitoes. They don't kill us. We kill them.

Solution

  1. gonna
  2. follow
  3. giving
  4. blood
  5. swapped
  6. shaking
  7. gentlemen

Original Text

What I'm going to show you is, I'm gonna stick my arm into it and I will show you how quickly they will bite. There we go. Don't worry, I do this all the time in the lab. There we go. OK. Now, on the video — on the video here, I'm going to show you exactly the same thing, except that what I'm showing you on the video happened one hour after I took the tablet. Have a look. That doesn't work. OK. Sorry about that. I'm sticking in my arm, I'm giving them a big juicy blood meal, I'm shaking them off, and we follow them through time to see these mosquitoes get very, very sick indeed, here shown in fast motion. And three hours later, what we see at the bottom of the cage is dead mosquitoes ... very dead mosquitoes. And I'm going to say, ladies and gentlemen, we have swapped the cards with mosquitoes. They don't kill us. We kill them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
african malaria 3
malaria mosquitoes 2
malaria mosquito 2
strong preference 2
breeding sites 2
unique smell 2
dead mosquitoes 2

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collocation frequency
african malaria mosquitoes 2

Important Words

  1. arm
  2. big
  3. bite
  4. blood
  5. bottom
  6. cage
  7. cards
  8. dead
  9. fast
  10. follow
  11. gentlemen
  12. giving
  13. gonna
  14. happened
  15. hour
  16. hours
  17. juicy
  18. kill
  19. lab
  20. ladies
  21. meal
  22. mosquitoes
  23. motion
  24. quickly
  25. shaking
  26. show
  27. showing
  28. shown
  29. sick
  30. stick
  31. sticking
  32. swapped
  33. tablet
  34. time
  35. video
  36. work
  37. worry