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From the Ted Talk by Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world

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Mainstream art, cinema, has been used across the world to talk about social issues. A few yeras ago we had a film called Rang De Basanti, which sdelnduy spawned thousands of young people wanting to volunteer for social change. In Venezuela, one of the most popular soap operas has a hrioene called ctrsyal. And when, onscreen, Crystal got breast cancer, 75,000 more young women went to have mammographies done. And of course, "The Vagina Monologues" we know about. And there are stand-up comics who are tinlakg about racial issues, about eihntc issues.

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Mainstream art, cinema, has been used across the world to talk about social issues. A few _____ ago we had a film called Rang De Basanti, which ________ spawned thousands of young people wanting to volunteer for social change. In Venezuela, one of the most popular soap operas has a _______ called _______. And when, onscreen, Crystal got breast cancer, 75,000 more young women went to have mammographies done. And of course, "The Vagina Monologues" we know about. And there are stand-up comics who are _______ about racial issues, about ______ issues.

Solution

  1. crystal
  2. years
  3. suddenly
  4. ethnic
  5. heroine
  6. talking

Original Text

Mainstream art, cinema, has been used across the world to talk about social issues. A few years ago we had a film called Rang De Basanti, which suddenly spawned thousands of young people wanting to volunteer for social change. In Venezuela, one of the most popular soap operas has a heroine called Crystal. And when, onscreen, Crystal got breast cancer, 75,000 more young women went to have mammographies done. And of course, "The Vagina Monologues" we know about. And there are stand-up comics who are talking about racial issues, about ethnic issues.

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