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From the Ted Talk by Katie Paterson: The mind-bending art of deep time
Unscramble the Blue Letters
More recently in my practice, I’ve come to believe that looking forward is just as important as looking back. How do we sepak to unborn people? How do we build a bridge across time? I tuohhgt the world's literary voices may be the best at doing that job, so I proposed a library of the future: a forset, a room, 100 authors and 100 years. It sratted in 2014. On the outskirts of Oslo, we planted a thousand baby Spruce trees. When they’re flluy grown, they’re going to be cut and made into paper. Every year for 100 years a different author is invited to write something new. Their words will become an anthology of books printed on paper made from these teers, only to be read in the year 2114.
Open Cloze
More recently in my practice, I’ve come to believe that looking forward is just as important as looking back. How do we _____ to unborn people? How do we build a bridge across time? I _______ the world's literary voices may be the best at doing that job, so I proposed a library of the future: a ______, a room, 100 authors and 100 years. It _______ in 2014. On the outskirts of Oslo, we planted a thousand baby Spruce trees. When they’re _____ grown, they’re going to be cut and made into paper. Every year for 100 years a different author is invited to write something new. Their words will become an anthology of books printed on paper made from these _____, only to be read in the year 2114.
Solution
- forest
- speak
- fully
- started
- thought
- trees
Original Text
More recently in my practice, I’ve come to believe that looking forward is just as important as looking back. How do we speak to unborn people? How do we build a bridge across time? I thought the world's literary voices may be the best at doing that job, so I proposed a library of the future: a forest, a room, 100 authors and 100 years. It started in 2014. On the outskirts of Oslo, we planted a thousand baby Spruce trees. When they’re fully grown, they’re going to be cut and made into paper. Every year for 100 years a different author is invited to write something new. Their words will become an anthology of books printed on paper made from these trees, only to be read in the year 2114.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
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