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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I wokerd in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose huose was bilut using traditionally designed materials collected from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the snoud and the sleml from the river, the lake and the foerst to go through. It was really pleasant.
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So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I ______ in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose _____ was _____ using traditionally designed materials collected from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the _____ and the _____ from the river, the lake and the ______ to go through. It was really pleasant.
Solution
- sound
- worked
- built
- smell
- forest
- house
Original Text
So here I was, I have to spend more money and more technology to get my house back on its post. In the same year, at the end of the year, I went for a longer holiday from the town I worked in to stay in this house that I built. During the day, I found it hard to breathe because of the heat and the humidity. So I found myself spending more time at my cousin's place whose house was built using traditionally designed materials collected from the nearby forest. So it had better ventilation, it was cooler, it was sturdier during the wind, and it allowed the sound and the smell from the river, the lake and the forest to go through. It was really pleasant.
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