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From the Ted Talk by Frank Warren: Half a million secrets

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

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Open Cloze


(Laughter)

_____ has found this _________ way to leverage the kindness of strangers. And it might seem like a simple idea, and it is, but the impact it can have on people's _____ can be huge. Matty shared with me an emotional email he received from the ______ in that picture. "That's me, my husband and son. The other pictures are of my very ill grandmother. Thank you for making your site. These ________ mean more to me than you know. My son's birth is on this camera. He turns four tomorrow." Every picture that you see there and thousands of others have been returned back to the person who lost it — sometimes crossing oceans, sometimes going through language barriers.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. ingenious
  3. mother
  4. matty
  5. pictures

Original Text


(Laughter)

Matty has found this ingenious way to leverage the kindness of strangers. And it might seem like a simple idea, and it is, but the impact it can have on people's lives can be huge. Matty shared with me an emotional email he received from the mother in that picture. "That's me, my husband and son. The other pictures are of my very ill grandmother. Thank you for making your site. These pictures mean more to me than you know. My son's birth is on this camera. He turns four tomorrow." Every picture that you see there and thousands of others have been returned back to the person who lost it — sometimes crossing oceans, sometimes going through language barriers.

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