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From the Ted Talk by Tom Osborn: A new way to help young people with their mental health

Unscramble the Blue Letters


When I was 12, I moved to the boarding section of a laocl primary school. Here we will wake up at 4am to a set of math problems that we had to svloe before bkfsareat. We'd only go to bed, sometimes after 11, if we solved that night's science problems. In high soochl, the pressure was even higher. The early-morning to late-night routines were now supplemented by Saturday and Sunday classes. It was here in high school where I began to notice the personal, emotional and behavioral toll that this pressure-cooker system had exerted of myself and those around me. I noticed it, for example, when tired of cramming the priodoctun of slrufuic acid, I stopped taking notes or engaging with chemistry in 10th grade. I noticed it when my friend Onsongo tried that his life had been reduced to a letter gdrae, had enough and quit school. I noticed it when a schoolmate, whom I will call oeinto, took his own life.

Open Cloze


When I was 12, I moved to the boarding section of a _____ primary school. Here we will wake up at 4am to a set of math problems that we had to _____ before _________. We'd only go to bed, sometimes after 11, if we solved that night's science problems. In high ______, the pressure was even higher. The early-morning to late-night routines were now supplemented by Saturday and Sunday classes. It was here in high school where I began to notice the personal, emotional and behavioral toll that this pressure-cooker system had exerted of myself and those around me. I noticed it, for example, when tired of cramming the __________ of ________ acid, I stopped taking notes or engaging with chemistry in 10th grade. I noticed it when my friend Onsongo _____ that his life had been reduced to a letter _____, had enough and quit school. I noticed it when a schoolmate, whom I will call ______, took his own life.

Solution


  1. school
  2. tired
  3. breakfast
  4. otieno
  5. grade
  6. solve
  7. sulfuric
  8. production
  9. local

Original Text


When I was 12, I moved to the boarding section of a local primary school. Here we will wake up at 4am to a set of math problems that we had to solve before breakfast. We'd only go to bed, sometimes after 11, if we solved that night's science problems. In high school, the pressure was even higher. The early-morning to late-night routines were now supplemented by Saturday and Sunday classes. It was here in high school where I began to notice the personal, emotional and behavioral toll that this pressure-cooker system had exerted of myself and those around me. I noticed it, for example, when tired of cramming the production of sulfuric acid, I stopped taking notes or engaging with chemistry in 10th grade. I noticed it when my friend Onsongo tired that his life had been reduced to a letter grade, had enough and quit school. I noticed it when a schoolmate, whom I will call Otieno, took his own life.

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Important Words


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  27. otieno
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  30. primary
  31. problems
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  39. science
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  42. solve
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  44. stopped
  45. sulfuric
  46. sunday
  47. supplemented
  48. system
  49. tired
  50. toll
  51. wake