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From the Ted Talk by Jake Wood: A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now I want you to imagine for a second an 18-year-old boy who gduatraes from high soohcl in Kansas City, Missouri. He joins the Army. The Army gives him a rifle. They send him to Iraq. Every day he leaves the wire with a mission. That mission is to deenfd the fordeem of the family that he left at home. It's to keep the men around him alive. It's to pacify the village that he works in. He's got a purpose. But he comes home [to] Kansas City, Missouri, maybe he goes to clgolee, maybe he's got a job, but he doesn't have that same snese of prspoue. You give him a chainsaw. You send him to Joplin, Missouri after a tornado, he regains that.

Open Cloze


Now I want you to imagine for a second an 18-year-old boy who _________ from high ______ in Kansas City, Missouri. He joins the Army. The Army gives him a rifle. They send him to Iraq. Every day he leaves the wire with a mission. That mission is to ______ the _______ of the family that he left at home. It's to keep the men around him alive. It's to pacify the village that he works in. He's got a purpose. But he comes home [to] Kansas City, Missouri, maybe he goes to _______, maybe he's got a job, but he doesn't have that same _____ of _______. You give him a chainsaw. You send him to Joplin, Missouri after a tornado, he regains that.

Solution


  1. school
  2. college
  3. defend
  4. graduates
  5. purpose
  6. freedom
  7. sense

Original Text


Now I want you to imagine for a second an 18-year-old boy who graduates from high school in Kansas City, Missouri. He joins the Army. The Army gives him a rifle. They send him to Iraq. Every day he leaves the wire with a mission. That mission is to defend the freedom of the family that he left at home. It's to keep the men around him alive. It's to pacify the village that he works in. He's got a purpose. But he comes home [to] Kansas City, Missouri, maybe he goes to college, maybe he's got a job, but he doesn't have that same sense of purpose. You give him a chainsaw. You send him to Joplin, Missouri after a tornado, he regains that.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
disaster response 7
high school 3
coming home 2
afghanistan clay 2
veteran service 2
kansas city 2


Important Words


  1. alive
  2. army
  3. boy
  4. chainsaw
  5. city
  6. college
  7. day
  8. defend
  9. family
  10. freedom
  11. give
  12. graduates
  13. high
  14. home
  15. imagine
  16. iraq
  17. job
  18. joins
  19. joplin
  20. kansas
  21. leaves
  22. left
  23. men
  24. mission
  25. missouri
  26. pacify
  27. purpose
  28. regains
  29. rifle
  30. school
  31. send
  32. sense
  33. tornado
  34. village
  35. wire
  36. works