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From the Ted Talk by Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods
Unscramble the Blue Letters
There is no coincidence that I am here as a landscape architect. As a child, I grew up in a row house next to the busy road always filled with traffic. In frnot of my house, there was a concrete parking lot, and that was my playground. The only lvniig creature I would find, and had fun with, were these sneaky little plants trying to grow through the cacrk of the concrete pavement. My ftorivae game with fneirds was to dig a bgeigr and bigger hole through this crack to let this little plant creep out — sneak out more and more. And yes, landscape architecture gives me the opurtpiotny to continue my cracking ambition —
Open Cloze
There is no coincidence that I am here as a landscape architect. As a child, I grew up in a row house next to the busy road always filled with traffic. In _____ of my house, there was a concrete parking lot, and that was my playground. The only ______ creature I would find, and had fun with, were these sneaky little plants trying to grow through the _____ of the concrete pavement. My ________ game with _______ was to dig a ______ and bigger hole through this crack to let this little plant creep out — sneak out more and more. And yes, landscape architecture gives me the ___________ to continue my cracking ambition —
Solution
- front
- opportunity
- bigger
- living
- crack
- friends
- favorite
Original Text
There is no coincidence that I am here as a landscape architect. As a child, I grew up in a row house next to the busy road always filled with traffic. In front of my house, there was a concrete parking lot, and that was my playground. The only living creature I would find, and had fun with, were these sneaky little plants trying to grow through the crack of the concrete pavement. My favorite game with friends was to dig a bigger and bigger hole through this crack to let this little plant creep out — sneak out more and more. And yes, landscape architecture gives me the opportunity to continue my cracking ambition —
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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green roof |
4 |
climate change |
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clean water |
3 |
sinking cities |
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concrete jungle |
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sea level |
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landscape architecture |
2 |
centenary park |
2 |
public park |
2 |
biggest green |
2 |
firmly stand |
2 |
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biggest green roof |
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Important Words
- ambition
- architect
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- child
- coincidence
- concrete
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- filled
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- friends
- front
- fun
- game
- grew
- grow
- hole
- house
- landscape
- living
- lot
- opportunity
- parking
- pavement
- plant
- plants
- playground
- road
- row
- sneak
- sneaky
- traffic