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From the Ted Talk by OluTimehin Adegbeye: Who belongs in a city?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Before Nigeria became a country, fisherpeople from the inland creeks setartd to come down the Lagos lagoon and establish vealglis along the coast. About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos. Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated elite in the independence era. Over time, he built an iusotllrius career as a land srevuoyr, mapping out now-bustling ndigooberhohs when they were just waist-high wild grass. He died when I was nine. And by that time, my family, like the fiimelas of those flopspreehie, knew Lagos as home.
Open Cloze
Before Nigeria became a country, fisherpeople from the inland creeks _______ to come down the Lagos lagoon and establish ________ along the coast. About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos. Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated elite in the independence era. Over time, he built an ___________ career as a land ________, mapping out now-bustling _____________ when they were just waist-high wild grass. He died when I was nine. And by that time, my family, like the ________ of those ____________, knew Lagos as home.
Solution
- villages
- illustrious
- surveyor
- fisherpeople
- started
- families
- neighborhoods
Original Text
Before Nigeria became a country, fisherpeople from the inland creeks started to come down the Lagos lagoon and establish villages along the coast. About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos. Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated elite in the independence era. Over time, he built an illustrious career as a land surveyor, mapping out now-bustling neighborhoods when they were just waist-high wild grass. He died when I was nine. And by that time, my family, like the families of those fisherpeople, knew Lagos as home.
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