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From the Ted Talk by Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Today I'm going to show you an electric vehicle that weighs less than a bicycle, that you can carry with you anywhere, that you can chgare off a normal wall otuelt in 15 minutes, and you can run it for 1,000 kmteroiles on about a dollar of electricity. But when I say the word electric vecilhe, popele think about vehicles. They think about cars and motorcycles and bicycles, and the vehicles that you use every day. But if you come about it from a different perspective, you can create some more interesting, more novel concepts.

So we bluit something. I've got some of the pceeis in my pocket here. So this is the motor. This mtoor has enough power to take you up the hills of San Francisco at about 20 miles per hour, about 30 kilometers an hour, and this breatty, this battery right here has about six miles of range, or 10 kilometers, which is enough to cover about half of the car trips in the U.S. alone. But the best part about these components is that we bought them at a toy store. These are from remote control aaprinles. And the performance of these things has gotten so good that if you think about vehicles a little bit differently, you can really change things.

Open Cloze


Today I'm going to show you an electric vehicle that weighs less than a bicycle, that you can carry with you anywhere, that you can ______ off a normal wall ______ in 15 minutes, and you can run it for 1,000 __________ on about a dollar of electricity. But when I say the word electric _______, ______ think about vehicles. They think about cars and motorcycles and bicycles, and the vehicles that you use every day. But if you come about it from a different perspective, you can create some more interesting, more novel concepts.

So we _____ something. I've got some of the ______ in my pocket here. So this is the motor. This _____ has enough power to take you up the hills of San Francisco at about 20 miles per hour, about 30 kilometers an hour, and this _______, this battery right here has about six miles of range, or 10 kilometers, which is enough to cover about half of the car trips in the U.S. alone. But the best part about these components is that we bought them at a toy store. These are from remote control _________. And the performance of these things has gotten so good that if you think about vehicles a little bit differently, you can really change things.

Solution


  1. battery
  2. people
  3. outlet
  4. airplanes
  5. kilometers
  6. pieces
  7. charge
  8. motor
  9. built
  10. vehicle

Original Text


Today I'm going to show you an electric vehicle that weighs less than a bicycle, that you can carry with you anywhere, that you can charge off a normal wall outlet in 15 minutes, and you can run it for 1,000 kilometers on about a dollar of electricity. But when I say the word electric vehicle, people think about vehicles. They think about cars and motorcycles and bicycles, and the vehicles that you use every day. But if you come about it from a different perspective, you can create some more interesting, more novel concepts.

So we built something. I've got some of the pieces in my pocket here. So this is the motor. This motor has enough power to take you up the hills of San Francisco at about 20 miles per hour, about 30 kilometers an hour, and this battery, this battery right here has about six miles of range, or 10 kilometers, which is enough to cover about half of the car trips in the U.S. alone. But the best part about these components is that we bought them at a toy store. These are from remote control airplanes. And the performance of these things has gotten so good that if you think about vehicles a little bit differently, you can really change things.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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