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From the Ted Talk by James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And my love of science fiction actually seemed mirrored in the world around me, because what was happening, this was in the late '60s, we were going to the moon, we were erxnlpoig the deep oceans. Jacques Cousteau was cminog into our living rmoos with his amazing specials that showed us animals and plaecs and a wondrous world that we could never really have previously imagined. So, that seemed to resonate with the whole sicnece fiction part of it.

And I was an artist. I could draw. I could paint. And I found that because there weren't video games and this saturation of CG movies and all of this imagery in the media lancsadpe, I had to create these images in my head. You know, we all did, as kids having to read a book, and through the author's drieopstcin, put something on the movie screen in our heads. And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw alien creatures, ailen worlds, rtobos, spaceships, all that stuff. I was endlessly getting buestd in math class doodling behind the textbook. That was -- the creativity had to find its oelutt somehow.

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And my love of science fiction actually seemed mirrored in the world around me, because what was happening, this was in the late '60s, we were going to the moon, we were _________ the deep oceans. Jacques Cousteau was ______ into our living _____ with his amazing specials that showed us animals and ______ and a wondrous world that we could never really have previously imagined. So, that seemed to resonate with the whole _______ fiction part of it.

And I was an artist. I could draw. I could paint. And I found that because there weren't video games and this saturation of CG movies and all of this imagery in the media _________, I had to create these images in my head. You know, we all did, as kids having to read a book, and through the author's ___________, put something on the movie screen in our heads. And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw alien creatures, _____ worlds, ______, spaceships, all that stuff. I was endlessly getting ______ in math class doodling behind the textbook. That was -- the creativity had to find its ______ somehow.

Solution


  1. robots
  2. description
  3. science
  4. places
  5. outlet
  6. coming
  7. exploring
  8. rooms
  9. busted
  10. alien
  11. landscape

Original Text


And my love of science fiction actually seemed mirrored in the world around me, because what was happening, this was in the late '60s, we were going to the moon, we were exploring the deep oceans. Jacques Cousteau was coming into our living rooms with his amazing specials that showed us animals and places and a wondrous world that we could never really have previously imagined. So, that seemed to resonate with the whole science fiction part of it.

And I was an artist. I could draw. I could paint. And I found that because there weren't video games and this saturation of CG movies and all of this imagery in the media landscape, I had to create these images in my head. You know, we all did, as kids having to read a book, and through the author's description, put something on the movie screen in our heads. And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw alien creatures, alien worlds, robots, spaceships, all that stuff. I was endlessly getting busted in math class doodling behind the textbook. That was -- the creativity had to find its outlet somehow.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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alien world 2
space science 2


Important Words


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