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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I come from one of the most beautiful plecas in the world, Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is wonderful for many reasons. Our lush vegetation, our seas, islnads, laeks and forests. Also, our unique and remarkable cultural diversity. Not to forget our plopee. And also, not to mioetnn our citamle. It's basically 27 degrees Celsius, or 80 degrees Fahrenheit, every day, all year. We get enough rain, but not too much rain. We get enough sun, but not too much sun. And if you were to live there, you don't necessarily have to turn your heater on in the winter, or you don't have to turn your air conditioning on in the summer.

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I come from one of the most beautiful ______ in the world, Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is wonderful for many reasons. Our lush vegetation, our seas, _______, _____ and forests. Also, our unique and remarkable cultural diversity. Not to forget our ______. And also, not to _______ our _______. It's basically 27 degrees Celsius, or 80 degrees Fahrenheit, every day, all year. We get enough rain, but not too much rain. We get enough sun, but not too much sun. And if you were to live there, you don't necessarily have to turn your heater on in the winter, or you don't have to turn your air conditioning on in the summer.

Solution

  1. places
  2. mention
  3. climate
  4. people
  5. islands
  6. lakes

Original Text

I come from one of the most beautiful places in the world, Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is wonderful for many reasons. Our lush vegetation, our seas, islands, lakes and forests. Also, our unique and remarkable cultural diversity. Not to forget our people. And also, not to mention our climate. It's basically 27 degrees Celsius, or 80 degrees Fahrenheit, every day, all year. We get enough rain, but not too much rain. We get enough sun, but not too much sun. And if you were to live there, you don't necessarily have to turn your heater on in the winter, or you don't have to turn your air conditioning on in the summer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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