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From the Ted Talk by Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School

Unscramble the Blue Letters


What I want to talk about today is one idea. It's an idea for a new kind of school, which turns on its head much of our conventional thinking about what schools are for and how they work. And it might just be cimnog to a neighborhood near you soon. Where it comes from is an organization called the Young Foundation, which, over many decades, has come up with many ionaivtnons in education, like the Open University and things like Extended Schools, Schools for Social eenteunerrprs, Summer Universities and the School of Everything.

And about five years ago, we aksed what was the most important need for innovation in schooling here in the U.K. And we felt the most important priority was to bring together two sets of problems. One was large numbers of berod teenagers who just didn't like school, couldn't see any relationship between what they learned in soohcl and future jobs. And employers who kept complaining that the kids coming out of school weren't actually radey for real work, didn't have the right attitudes and experience.

Open Cloze


What I want to talk about today is one idea. It's an idea for a new kind of school, which turns on its head much of our conventional thinking about what schools are for and how they work. And it might just be ______ to a neighborhood near you soon. Where it comes from is an organization called the Young Foundation, which, over many decades, has come up with many ___________ in education, like the Open University and things like Extended Schools, Schools for Social _____________, Summer Universities and the School of Everything.

And about five years ago, we _____ what was the most important need for innovation in schooling here in the U.K. And we felt the most important priority was to bring together two sets of problems. One was large numbers of _____ teenagers who just didn't like school, couldn't see any relationship between what they learned in ______ and future jobs. And employers who kept complaining that the kids coming out of school weren't actually _____ for real work, didn't have the right attitudes and experience.

Solution


  1. school
  2. bored
  3. coming
  4. ready
  5. asked
  6. innovations
  7. entrepreneurs

Original Text


What I want to talk about today is one idea. It's an idea for a new kind of school, which turns on its head much of our conventional thinking about what schools are for and how they work. And it might just be coming to a neighborhood near you soon. Where it comes from is an organization called the Young Foundation, which, over many decades, has come up with many innovations in education, like the Open University and things like Extended Schools, Schools for Social Entrepreneurs, Summer Universities and the School of Everything.

And about five years ago, we asked what was the most important need for innovation in schooling here in the U.K. And we felt the most important priority was to bring together two sets of problems. One was large numbers of bored teenagers who just didn't like school, couldn't see any relationship between what they learned in school and future jobs. And employers who kept complaining that the kids coming out of school weren't actually ready for real work, didn't have the right attitudes and experience.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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large numbers 2
schools opening 2


Important Words


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