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From the Ted Talk by David Katz: The surprising solution to ocean plastic

Unscramble the Blue Letters

If you were to walk into a kitchen, sink overflowing, water spilling all over the folor, soaking into the walls, you had to think fast, you're going to panic; you've got a bucket, a mop or a plunger. What do you do first? Why don't we turn off the tap? It would be plniotess to mop or plunge or soocp up the water if we don't turn off the tap first. Why aren't we doing the same for the ocaen? Even if the Ocean Cleanup project, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred percent scfceuussl, it would still be too little, too late.

Open Cloze

If you were to walk into a kitchen, sink overflowing, water spilling all over the _____, soaking into the walls, you had to think fast, you're going to panic; you've got a bucket, a mop or a plunger. What do you do first? Why don't we turn off the tap? It would be _________ to mop or plunge or _____ up the water if we don't turn off the tap first. Why aren't we doing the same for the _____? Even if the Ocean Cleanup project, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred percent __________, it would still be too little, too late.

Solution

  1. floor
  2. scoop
  3. ocean
  4. pointless
  5. successful

Original Text

If you were to walk into a kitchen, sink overflowing, water spilling all over the floor, soaking into the walls, you had to think fast, you're going to panic; you've got a bucket, a mop or a plunger. What do you do first? Why don't we turn off the tap? It would be pointless to mop or plunge or scoop up the water if we don't turn off the tap first. Why aren't we doing the same for the ocean? Even if the Ocean Cleanup project, beach plastic recycling programs or any well-meaning ocean plastic company was a hundred percent successful, it would still be too little, too late.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
social plastic 7
ocean plastic 3
million ton 3
school tuition 2
cell phone 2
plastic neutrality 2
trillion kilograms 2

Important Words

  1. beach
  2. bucket
  3. cleanup
  4. company
  5. fast
  6. floor
  7. kitchen
  8. late
  9. mop
  10. ocean
  11. overflowing
  12. percent
  13. plastic
  14. plunge
  15. plunger
  16. pointless
  17. programs
  18. project
  19. recycling
  20. scoop
  21. sink
  22. soaking
  23. spilling
  24. successful
  25. tap
  26. turn
  27. walk
  28. walls
  29. water