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From the Ted Talk by Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard

Unscramble the Blue Letters

We survey the native tree species of the place. How do we didcee what's native or not? Well, whatever existed before human intervention is native. That's the simple rule. We survey a national park to find the last remains of a natural forest. We sreuvy the sacred gvroes, or sacred forests around old temples. And if we don't find anything at all, we go to museums to see the seeds or wood of trees existing there a long time ago. We research old pnintgias, poems and literature from the place, to identify the tree species bngeloing there.

Open Cloze

We survey the native tree species of the place. How do we ______ what's native or not? Well, whatever existed before human intervention is native. That's the simple rule. We survey a national park to find the last remains of a natural forest. We ______ the sacred ______, or sacred forests around old temples. And if we don't find anything at all, we go to museums to see the seeds or wood of trees existing there a long time ago. We research old _________, poems and literature from the place, to identify the tree species _________ there.

Solution

  1. survey
  2. belonging
  3. groves
  4. decide
  5. paintings

Original Text

We survey the native tree species of the place. How do we decide what's native or not? Well, whatever existed before human intervention is native. That's the simple rule. We survey a national park to find the last remains of a natural forest. We survey the sacred groves, or sacred forests around old temples. And if we don't find anything at all, we go to museums to see the seeds or wood of trees existing there a long time ago. We research old paintings, poems and literature from the place, to identify the tree species belonging there.

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