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From the Ted Talk by Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I wtaned to give you a chance to think about your own style. We all have moments of givnig and taking. Your style is how you treat most of the people most of the time, your default. I have a short test you can take to figure out if you're more of a giver or a taker, and you can take it right now.

[The Narcissist Test]

[Step 1: Take a moment to think about yourself.]

(laugehtr)

[Step 2: If you made it to Step 2, you are not a narcissist.]

(Laughter)

This is the only thing I will say today that has no data behind it, but I am convinced the longer it tekas for you to laugh at this cartoon, the more worried we should be that you're a tkear.

Open Cloze


I ______ to give you a chance to think about your own style. We all have moments of ______ and taking. Your style is how you treat most of the people most of the time, your default. I have a short test you can take to figure out if you're more of a giver or a taker, and you can take it right now.

[The Narcissist Test]

[Step 1: Take a moment to think about yourself.]

(________)

[Step 2: If you made it to Step 2, you are not a narcissist.]

(Laughter)

This is the only thing I will say today that has no data behind it, but I am convinced the longer it _____ for you to laugh at this cartoon, the more worried we should be that you're a _____.

Solution


  1. taker
  2. laughter
  3. wanted
  4. takes
  5. giving

Original Text


I wanted to give you a chance to think about your own style. We all have moments of giving and taking. Your style is how you treat most of the people most of the time, your default. I have a short test you can take to figure out if you're more of a giver or a taker, and you can take it right now.

[The Narcissist Test]

[Step 1: Take a moment to think about yourself.]

(Laughter)

[Step 2: If you made it to Step 2, you are not a narcissist.]

(Laughter)

This is the only thing I will say today that has no data behind it, but I am convinced the longer it takes for you to laugh at this cartoon, the more worried we should be that you're a taker.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
disagreeable givers 3
agreeable people 2
disagreeable people 2


Important Words


  1. cartoon
  2. chance
  3. convinced
  4. data
  5. default
  6. figure
  7. give
  8. giver
  9. giving
  10. laugh
  11. laughter
  12. longer
  13. moment
  14. moments
  15. narcissist
  16. people
  17. short
  18. step
  19. style
  20. taker
  21. takes
  22. test
  23. time
  24. today
  25. treat
  26. wanted
  27. worried