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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery

Unscramble the Blue Letters

It's not a lot of money at the global level. In fact, it's peanuts. And the great thing about it is that it's not mnoey down a hole, there is a freedom dienvidd. When you let polepe out of slavery to work for themselves, are they motivated? They take their kids out of the workplace, they build a school, they say, "We're going to have stuff we've never had before like three squares, medicine when we're sick, clothing when we're cold." They become consumers and pceodurrs and local eomnoceis begin to spiral up very rapidly.

Open Cloze

It's not a lot of money at the global level. In fact, it's peanuts. And the great thing about it is that it's not _____ down a hole, there is a freedom ________. When you let ______ out of slavery to work for themselves, are they motivated? They take their kids out of the workplace, they build a school, they say, "We're going to have stuff we've never had before like three squares, medicine when we're sick, clothing when we're cold." They become consumers and _________ and local _________ begin to spiral up very rapidly.

Solution

  1. people
  2. economies
  3. producers
  4. dividend
  5. money

Original Text

It's not a lot of money at the global level. In fact, it's peanuts. And the great thing about it is that it's not money down a hole, there is a freedom dividend. When you let people out of slavery to work for themselves, are they motivated? They take their kids out of the workplace, they build a school, they say, "We're going to have stuff we've never had before like three squares, medicine when we're sick, clothing when we're cold." They become consumers and producers and local economies begin to spiral up very rapidly.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
million people 4
billion people 3
human beings 3
billion dollars 3
intellectual power 3
human rights 2
real slavery 2
human history 2
capital purchase 2
james kofi 2
kofi annan 2
global economy 2
bring slavery 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
james kofi annan 2

Important Words

  1. build
  2. clothing
  3. cold
  4. consumers
  5. dividend
  6. economies
  7. fact
  8. freedom
  9. global
  10. great
  11. hole
  12. kids
  13. level
  14. local
  15. lot
  16. medicine
  17. money
  18. motivated
  19. peanuts
  20. people
  21. producers
  22. rapidly
  23. school
  24. sick
  25. slavery
  26. spiral
  27. squares
  28. stuff
  29. work
  30. workplace