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From the Ted Talk by Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So, 21st-century lingo jargon mumbo jbmuo aside, the truth is, I've been teaching for 13 years now, and it took a life-threatening sotitiaun to snap me out of 10 years of pseudo-teaching and help me rezlaie that student questions are the seeds of real lienrang, not some scripted curriculum that gave them tidbits of random information.

In May of 2010, at 35 years old, with a two-year-old at home and my second child on the way, I was diagnosed with a large aneurysm at the base of my tichaorc aorta. This led to open-heart surgery. This is the actual real email from my dcotor right there. Now, when I got this, I was — press Caps Lock — aluleobsty freaked out, okay? But I found surprising moments of comfort in the confidence that my sugoren embodied. Where did this guy get this confidence, the audacity of it?

Open Cloze


So, 21st-century lingo jargon mumbo _____ aside, the truth is, I've been teaching for 13 years now, and it took a life-threatening _________ to snap me out of 10 years of pseudo-teaching and help me _______ that student questions are the seeds of real ________, not some scripted curriculum that gave them tidbits of random information.

In May of 2010, at 35 years old, with a two-year-old at home and my second child on the way, I was diagnosed with a large aneurysm at the base of my ________ aorta. This led to open-heart surgery. This is the actual real email from my ______ right there. Now, when I got this, I was — press Caps Lock — __________ freaked out, okay? But I found surprising moments of comfort in the confidence that my _______ embodied. Where did this guy get this confidence, the audacity of it?

Solution


  1. surgeon
  2. doctor
  3. situation
  4. jumbo
  5. thoracic
  6. learning
  7. realize
  8. absolutely

Original Text


So, 21st-century lingo jargon mumbo jumbo aside, the truth is, I've been teaching for 13 years now, and it took a life-threatening situation to snap me out of 10 years of pseudo-teaching and help me realize that student questions are the seeds of real learning, not some scripted curriculum that gave them tidbits of random information.

In May of 2010, at 35 years old, with a two-year-old at home and my second child on the way, I was diagnosed with a large aneurysm at the base of my thoracic aorta. This led to open-heart surgery. This is the actual real email from my doctor right there. Now, when I got this, I was — press Caps Lock — absolutely freaked out, okay? But I found surprising moments of comfort in the confidence that my surgeon embodied. Where did this guy get this confidence, the audacity of it?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. absolutely
  2. actual
  3. aneurysm
  4. aorta
  5. audacity
  6. base
  7. caps
  8. child
  9. comfort
  10. confidence
  11. curriculum
  12. diagnosed
  13. doctor
  14. email
  15. embodied
  16. freaked
  17. gave
  18. guy
  19. home
  20. information
  21. jargon
  22. jumbo
  23. large
  24. learning
  25. led
  26. lingo
  27. lock
  28. moments
  29. mumbo
  30. press
  31. questions
  32. random
  33. real
  34. realize
  35. scripted
  36. seeds
  37. situation
  38. snap
  39. student
  40. surgeon
  41. surgery
  42. surprising
  43. teaching
  44. thoracic
  45. tidbits
  46. truth
  47. years