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From the Ted Talk by Sarah Kay: "A Bird Made of Birds"
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Not long ago, I saw this video that some of you may have seen. It makes the internet rounds every cuploe of mnthos. There are these birds that are called starlings, and they fly in what's called a "murmuration," which is generally just a big cloud of birds. And someone hepaenpd to catch a quick video on their phnoe of these starlings flying. And at first, it's just an amorphous blob, and then there's a moment where the birds shift, and they form the shape of a starling in the sky!
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And as soon as I saw it, I was like,
(Gasps) "The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing!"
Open Cloze
Not long ago, I saw this video that some of you may have seen. It makes the internet rounds every ______ of ______. There are these birds that are called starlings, and they fly in what's called a "murmuration," which is generally just a big cloud of birds. And someone ________ to catch a quick video on their _____ of these starlings flying. And at first, it's just an amorphous blob, and then there's a moment where the birds shift, and they form the shape of a starling in the sky!
(________)
And as soon as I saw it, I was like,
(Gasps) "The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing!"
Solution
- couple
- laughter
- phone
- happened
- months
Original Text
Not long ago, I saw this video that some of you may have seen. It makes the internet rounds every couple of months. There are these birds that are called starlings, and they fly in what's called a "murmuration," which is generally just a big cloud of birds. And someone happened to catch a quick video on their phone of these starlings flying. And at first, it's just an amorphous blob, and then there's a moment where the birds shift, and they form the shape of a starling in the sky!
(Laughter)
And as soon as I saw it, I was like,
(Gasps) "The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing!"
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