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From the Ted Talk by Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya
Unscramble the Blue Letters
My name is Joseph, a Member of Parliament in Kenya. Picture a Maasai vaillge, and one evening, gnvomrenet soldiers come, surround the village and ask each elder to bnirg one boy to school. That's how I went to school — pretty much a government guy pnntioig a gun and told my ftehar, "You have to make a choice." I wakeld very comfortably to this missionary school, that was run by an American missionary. The first thing the American missionary gave me was a candy. I had never in my life ever tasted candy. So I said to myself, with all these hundred other boys, this is where I belong.
Open Cloze
My name is Joseph, a Member of Parliament in Kenya. Picture a Maasai _______, and one evening, __________ soldiers come, surround the village and ask each elder to _____ one boy to school. That's how I went to school — pretty much a government guy ________ a gun and told my ______, "You have to make a choice." I ______ very comfortably to this missionary school, that was run by an American missionary. The first thing the American missionary gave me was a candy. I had never in my life ever tasted candy. So I said to myself, with all these hundred other boys, this is where I belong.
Solution
- government
- father
- walked
- village
- bring
- pointing
Original Text
My name is Joseph, a Member of Parliament in Kenya. Picture a Maasai village, and one evening, government soldiers come, surround the village and ask each elder to bring one boy to school. That's how I went to school — pretty much a government guy pointing a gun and told my father, "You have to make a choice." I walked very comfortably to this missionary school, that was run by an American missionary. The first thing the American missionary gave me was a candy. I had never in my life ever tasted candy. So I said to myself, with all these hundred other boys, this is where I belong.
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