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From the Ted Talk by Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine

Unscramble the Blue Letters


PM: And you've seen so many of those changes. The raetarnust has been a bridge. You have been a bigrde between the past and now, but you don't live in the past, do you? You live very much in the present.

LC: And that's what you have to tell young people tadoy. OK, you can potrset, but put the past behind you. I can't make you responsible for what your grandfather did. That's your grandfather. I have to build on that. I have to make changes. I can't stay there and say, "Oh, well, look what they did to us then. Look what they do to us now." No, you remember that, but that makes you keep going on, but you don't harp on it every day. You move, and you move to make a difference, and everybody should be involved. My children said, "Mother, don't get political," you know.

Open Cloze


PM: And you've seen so many of those changes. The __________ has been a bridge. You have been a ______ between the past and now, but you don't live in the past, do you? You live very much in the present.

LC: And that's what you have to tell young people _____. OK, you can _______, but put the past behind you. I can't make you responsible for what your grandfather did. That's your grandfather. I have to build on that. I have to make changes. I can't stay there and say, "Oh, well, look what they did to us then. Look what they do to us now." No, you remember that, but that makes you keep going on, but you don't harp on it every day. You move, and you move to make a difference, and everybody should be involved. My children said, "Mother, don't get political," you know.

Solution


  1. today
  2. protest
  3. bridge
  4. restaurant

Original Text


PM: And you've seen so many of those changes. The restaurant has been a bridge. You have been a bridge between the past and now, but you don't live in the past, do you? You live very much in the present.

LC: And that's what you have to tell young people today. OK, you can protest, but put the past behind you. I can't make you responsible for what your grandfather did. That's your grandfather. I have to build on that. I have to make changes. I can't stay there and say, "Oh, well, look what they did to us then. Look what they do to us now." No, you remember that, but that makes you keep going on, but you don't harp on it every day. You move, and you move to make a difference, and everybody should be involved. My children said, "Mother, don't get political," you know.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
young people 3
start wearing 2
young women 2
young woman 2
meet women 2
cheap gas 2
fried chicken 2
thurgood marshall 2
political move 2
george patton 2
good woman 2


Important Words


  1. bridge
  2. build
  3. children
  4. day
  5. difference
  6. grandfather
  7. harp
  8. involved
  9. live
  10. move
  11. people
  12. political
  13. present
  14. protest
  15. put
  16. remember
  17. responsible
  18. restaurant
  19. stay
  20. today
  21. young