Listen to the audio carefully and fill in the blank words.

After you have filled in

the blank words then sit down in groups and master the paragraph that has been
determined by the teacher for each group and retell it in front of the class!

Xiye Bastida | USA

“We are on Earth to take care of (1)_______. We are on Earth to take care of
each other.”

Xiye Bastida is a teenage (2)_______ activist currently based in New York

City and one of the (3)_______ organizers of the Fridays For Future youth climate
strike (4)________.

Bastida was born in Atlacomulco, Mexico to (5)_______ Mindahi and

Geraldine, who are also environmentalists, and (6)_______ in the town of San Pedro
Tultepec in Lerma. Her father is of Otomi-Toltec (7)_______ while her Chilean
mother has Celtic ancestry. Bastida currently holds dual Mexican and Chilean
(8)_________.

Bastida and her family (9)________ to New York City after extreme looding hit
their hometown of San Pedro Tultepec in 2015 (10)________ three years of
drought.Bastida attended The Beacon School. She (11)________ at the University of
Pennsylvania in 2020.

Bastida began her activism with an environmental club. The club protested at
Albany and New York City Hall and lobbied for the175 the Climate and (12)_______
Leaders Protection Act (CLCPA) and the Dirty Buildings Bill. It was then she heard
about Greta Thunberg and her climate strikes. Bastida gave a (13)________ on
Indigenous Cosmology at the 9th United Nations World Urban Forum, and was
awarded the “Spirit of the UN” award in 2018.

Bastida led her high school, The Beacon School, in the first (13)_______
climate strike in New York City on 15 March 2019. She and Alexandria Villaseñor
officially (14)________ Thunberg upon her arrival from Europe by boat in September
2019 to attend the UN (15)________ Summit. Xiye has been coined “America’s
Greta Thunberg” however has said that “calling youth activists the ‘Greta Thunberg’
of their country diminishes Greta’s personal experience and individual struggles”.

Teen Vogue released a documentary (16)_______ We Rise on Bastida in

December 2019. Bastida has also collaborated with 2040 film to (17)_______ a short
video titled Imagine the Future exploring what future landscapes and cityscapes could
(18)_______ like in the future.

Bastida contributed to All We Can Save, an anthology of women writing

about climate change. She recently (19)_______ at the Leadership Summit on Climate
hosted by the Biden Administration, delivering a speech urging world leaders to
(20)________ more in climate activism.
Source: Earthday, n.d., Wikipedia, n.d.