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From the Ted Talk by Frans Lanting: The story of life in photographs

Unscramble the Blue Letters

On land, life turned a corner. Jaws formed first; teeth came later. Leatherbacks and tuataras are eohecs from that era. It took time for life to break away from water, and it still boecnks all the time. Life turned hard so it could venture inland. And the dragons that arose are still among us today. jaisrsuc Park still shimmers in part of Madagascar, and the center of Brazil, where plants called "cycads" remain rock hard. Forests arose and nurtured things with wngis. One early form left an imprint, like it died only ysdateery. And others fly tadoy like echoes of the past. In bidrs, life gained new mobility. faolmgnis covered ceintnntos. Migrations got underway.

Open Cloze

On land, life turned a corner. Jaws formed first; teeth came later. Leatherbacks and tuataras are ______ from that era. It took time for life to break away from water, and it still _______ all the time. Life turned hard so it could venture inland. And the dragons that arose are still among us today. ________ Park still shimmers in part of Madagascar, and the center of Brazil, where plants called "cycads" remain rock hard. Forests arose and nurtured things with _____. One early form left an imprint, like it died only _________. And others fly _____ like echoes of the past. In _____, life gained new mobility. _________ covered __________. Migrations got underway.

Solution

  1. wings
  2. birds
  3. continents
  4. beckons
  5. today
  6. yesterday
  7. flamingos
  8. echoes
  9. jurassic

Original Text

On land, life turned a corner. Jaws formed first; teeth came later. Leatherbacks and tuataras are echoes from that era. It took time for life to break away from water, and it still beckons all the time. Life turned hard so it could venture inland. And the dragons that arose are still among us today. Jurassic Park still shimmers in part of Madagascar, and the center of Brazil, where plants called "cycads" remain rock hard. Forests arose and nurtured things with wings. One early form left an imprint, like it died only yesterday. And others fly today like echoes of the past. In birds, life gained new mobility. Flamingos covered continents. Migrations got underway.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  2. beckons
  3. birds
  4. brazil
  5. break
  6. called
  7. center
  8. continents
  9. corner
  10. covered
  11. died
  12. dragons
  13. early
  14. echoes
  15. era
  16. flamingos
  17. fly
  18. forests
  19. form
  20. formed
  21. gained
  22. hard
  23. imprint
  24. inland
  25. jaws
  26. jurassic
  27. land
  28. leatherbacks
  29. left
  30. life
  31. madagascar
  32. migrations
  33. mobility
  34. nurtured
  35. park
  36. part
  37. plants
  38. remain
  39. rock
  40. shimmers
  41. teeth
  42. time
  43. today
  44. tuataras
  45. turned
  46. underway
  47. venture
  48. water
  49. wings
  50. yesterday