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From the Ted Talk by Georges C. Benjamin: The secret weapon against pandemics

Unscramble the Blue Letters

GB: You know, you just have to continue to communicate the truth to folks. One of the things about this particular disease is that it does not spare anyone. It does not recognize poilacitl parties, it does not recognize geography, and we had lots of people, particularly in rural coiemnmtius, that were not seeing it, because it had not yet come to them, and they didn't believe it was real. And now many of those communities are being ravaged by this disease. And so we just have to — You know, it's not appropriate to say "I told you so." It is appropriate to say, "Look, now that you see it, come on board and help us resolve these problems." But this is something that's going to be around for a while. And if it becomes endemic, meaning that it orccus all the time at some low leevl, everyone is going to have this experience.

Open Cloze

GB: You know, you just have to continue to communicate the truth to folks. One of the things about this particular disease is that it does not spare anyone. It does not recognize _________ parties, it does not recognize geography, and we had lots of people, particularly in rural ___________, that were not seeing it, because it had not yet come to them, and they didn't believe it was real. And now many of those communities are being ravaged by this disease. And so we just have to — You know, it's not appropriate to say "I told you so." It is appropriate to say, "Look, now that you see it, come on board and help us resolve these problems." But this is something that's going to be around for a while. And if it becomes endemic, meaning that it ______ all the time at some low _____, everyone is going to have this experience.

Solution

  1. occurs
  2. political
  3. level
  4. communities

Original Text

GB: You know, you just have to continue to communicate the truth to folks. One of the things about this particular disease is that it does not spare anyone. It does not recognize political parties, it does not recognize geography, and we had lots of people, particularly in rural communities, that were not seeing it, because it had not yet come to them, and they didn't believe it was real. And now many of those communities are being ravaged by this disease. And so we just have to — You know, it's not appropriate to say "I told you so." It is appropriate to say, "Look, now that you see it, come on board and help us resolve these problems." But this is something that's going to be around for a while. And if it becomes endemic, meaning that it occurs all the time at some low level, everyone is going to have this experience.

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Important Words

  1. board
  2. communicate
  3. communities
  4. continue
  5. disease
  6. endemic
  7. experience
  8. folks
  9. geography
  10. level
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  12. meaning
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  14. parties
  15. people
  16. political
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  22. rural
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  24. time
  25. told
  26. truth