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From the Ted Talk by Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)

Unscramble the Blue Letters


From our hmoes, we look down into the courtyard, and deenipndg on the time of year, we see this: kids and grownups in various combinations palynig and hanging out with each other. There's a lot of giggling and chatter. There's a lot of hula-hooping. And every now and then, "Hey, quit hititng me!" or a cry from one of the kids. These are the sounds of our daily lives, and the sonuds of social connectedness. At the bottom of the courtyard, there are a set of double doors, and those lead into the cmomon house.

I consider the common house the seerct sauce of cohousing. It's the secret sacue because it's the place where the social iceirottnans and community life begin, and from there, it radiates out through the rest of the community. Inside our common house, we have a large dining room to seat all 28 of us and our guests, and we dine together three times a week. In support of those meals, we have a large kitchen so that we can take tunrs cooking for each other in teams of three. So that means, with 17 adults, I lead cook once every six wekes. Two other times, I show up and help my team with the preparation and cleanup. And all those other nights, I just show up. I have dinner, talk with my norbeighs, and I go home, having been fed a delicious meal by someone who cares about my vegetarian peecrefrens.

Open Cloze


From our _____, we look down into the courtyard, and _________ on the time of year, we see this: kids and grownups in various combinations _______ and hanging out with each other. There's a lot of giggling and chatter. There's a lot of hula-hooping. And every now and then, "Hey, quit _______ me!" or a cry from one of the kids. These are the sounds of our daily lives, and the ______ of social connectedness. At the bottom of the courtyard, there are a set of double doors, and those lead into the ______ house.

I consider the common house the ______ sauce of cohousing. It's the secret _____ because it's the place where the social ____________ and community life begin, and from there, it radiates out through the rest of the community. Inside our common house, we have a large dining room to seat all 28 of us and our guests, and we dine together three times a week. In support of those meals, we have a large kitchen so that we can take _____ cooking for each other in teams of three. So that means, with 17 adults, I lead cook once every six _____. Two other times, I show up and help my team with the preparation and cleanup. And all those other nights, I just show up. I have dinner, talk with my _________, and I go home, having been fed a delicious meal by someone who cares about my vegetarian ___________.

Solution


  1. sauce
  2. sounds
  3. common
  4. secret
  5. playing
  6. neighbors
  7. hitting
  8. depending
  9. turns
  10. homes
  11. preferences
  12. interactions
  13. weeks

Original Text


From our homes, we look down into the courtyard, and depending on the time of year, we see this: kids and grownups in various combinations playing and hanging out with each other. There's a lot of giggling and chatter. There's a lot of hula-hooping. And every now and then, "Hey, quit hitting me!" or a cry from one of the kids. These are the sounds of our daily lives, and the sounds of social connectedness. At the bottom of the courtyard, there are a set of double doors, and those lead into the common house.

I consider the common house the secret sauce of cohousing. It's the secret sauce because it's the place where the social interactions and community life begin, and from there, it radiates out through the rest of the community. Inside our common house, we have a large dining room to seat all 28 of us and our guests, and we dine together three times a week. In support of those meals, we have a large kitchen so that we can take turns cooking for each other in teams of three. So that means, with 17 adults, I lead cook once every six weeks. Two other times, I show up and help my team with the preparation and cleanup. And all those other nights, I just show up. I have dinner, talk with my neighbors, and I go home, having been fed a delicious meal by someone who cares about my vegetarian preferences.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
social interactions 3
false sense 2
central courtyard 2
common house 2
secret sauce 2


Important Words


  1. adults
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  3. cares
  4. chatter
  5. cleanup
  6. cohousing
  7. combinations
  8. common
  9. community
  10. connectedness
  11. cook
  12. cooking
  13. courtyard
  14. cry
  15. daily
  16. delicious
  17. depending
  18. dine
  19. dining
  20. dinner
  21. doors
  22. double
  23. fed
  24. giggling
  25. grownups
  26. guests
  27. hanging
  28. hitting
  29. home
  30. homes
  31. house
  32. interactions
  33. kids
  34. kitchen
  35. large
  36. lead
  37. life
  38. lives
  39. lot
  40. meal
  41. meals
  42. means
  43. neighbors
  44. nights
  45. place
  46. playing
  47. preferences
  48. preparation
  49. quit
  50. radiates
  51. rest
  52. room
  53. sauce
  54. seat
  55. secret
  56. set
  57. show
  58. social
  59. sounds
  60. support
  61. talk
  62. team
  63. teams
  64. time
  65. times
  66. turns
  67. vegetarian
  68. week
  69. weeks
  70. year