full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Bjarke Ingels: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Actually, today, three million people are already permanently living on the sea. So we thought, could we actually imagine a floating city dseengid to incorporate all of the Sustainable devemlnopet Goals of the United Nations into a whole new human-made ecosystem. And of course, we have to design it so it can produce its own power, harvesting the thermal mass of the oceans, the force of the teids, of the currents, of the waves, the power of the wind, the heat and the energy of the sun. Also, we are going to cocellt all of the rain water that doprs on this man-made archipelago and deal with it oliacnragly and mechanically and store it and clean it. We have to grow all of our food lacolly, it has to be fish- and plant-based, because you won't have the space or the rusoecers for a dairy diet. And finally, we are going to deal with all the wstae locally, with compost, recycling, and turning the waste into energy.
Open Cloze
Actually, today, three million people are already permanently living on the sea. So we thought, could we actually imagine a floating city ________ to incorporate all of the Sustainable ___________ Goals of the United Nations into a whole new human-made ecosystem. And of course, we have to design it so it can produce its own power, harvesting the thermal mass of the oceans, the force of the _____, of the currents, of the waves, the power of the wind, the heat and the energy of the sun. Also, we are going to _______ all of the rain water that _____ on this man-made archipelago and deal with it ___________ and mechanically and store it and clean it. We have to grow all of our food _______, it has to be fish- and plant-based, because you won't have the space or the _________ for a dairy diet. And finally, we are going to deal with all the _____ locally, with compost, recycling, and turning the waste into energy.
Solution
- drops
- designed
- locally
- waste
- organically
- resources
- development
- collect
- tides
Original Text
Actually, today, three million people are already permanently living on the sea. So we thought, could we actually imagine a floating city designed to incorporate all of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations into a whole new human-made ecosystem. And of course, we have to design it so it can produce its own power, harvesting the thermal mass of the oceans, the force of the tides, of the currents, of the waves, the power of the wind, the heat and the energy of the sun. Also, we are going to collect all of the rain water that drops on this man-made archipelago and deal with it organically and mechanically and store it and clean it. We have to grow all of our food locally, it has to be fish- and plant-based, because you won't have the space or the resources for a dairy diet. And finally, we are going to deal with all the waste locally, with compost, recycling, and turning the waste into energy.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| floating city |
5 |
| give form |
4 |
| power plant |
4 |
| flood protection |
4 |
| high line |
4 |
| home country |
2 |
| minimum distance |
2 |
| social space |
2 |
| thermal mass |
2 |
| east river |
2 |
| permaculture gardens |
2 |
| community port |
2 |
| percent water |
2 |
Important Words
- archipelago
- city
- clean
- collect
- compost
- currents
- dairy
- deal
- design
- designed
- development
- diet
- drops
- ecosystem
- energy
- finally
- floating
- food
- force
- goals
- grow
- harvesting
- heat
- imagine
- incorporate
- living
- locally
- mass
- mechanically
- million
- nations
- oceans
- organically
- people
- permanently
- power
- produce
- rain
- recycling
- resources
- sea
- space
- store
- sun
- sustainable
- thermal
- thought
- tides
- today
- turning
- united
- waste
- water
- waves
- wind