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From the Ted Talk by Danielle N. Lee: How hip-hop helps us understand science

Unscramble the Blue Letters


How y'all doing? Good. I came here to give you a science lsseon about animal mating systems and why defining monogamy has been a challenge for sttciiesns. But you won't need a textbook or to daowlond an online lecture. All you'll simply need to do is revisit the song "OPP" by Naughty by Nature.

(lhgtaeur)

It was released in 1991. Now, "OPP" is a call-and-response song. So throughout the talk, I'm going to put lyrics up on the screen, and I'm going to recite some and I'm going to prompt you when it's your turn to do the response, OK?

(Cheers)

Now, I know some pleope in this audience know this song, so I need you to lead the way with the tempo and the rhythm, if that's alright, OK? Right, y'all reday?

Open Cloze


How y'all doing? Good. I came here to give you a science ______ about animal mating systems and why defining monogamy has been a challenge for __________. But you won't need a textbook or to ________ an online lecture. All you'll simply need to do is revisit the song "OPP" by Naughty by Nature.

(________)

It was released in 1991. Now, "OPP" is a call-and-response song. So throughout the talk, I'm going to put lyrics up on the screen, and I'm going to recite some and I'm going to prompt you when it's your turn to do the response, OK?

(Cheers)

Now, I know some ______ in this audience know this song, so I need you to lead the way with the tempo and the rhythm, if that's alright, OK? Right, y'all _____?

Solution


  1. lesson
  2. people
  3. scientists
  4. laughter
  5. ready
  6. download

Original Text


How y'all doing? Good. I came here to give you a science lesson about animal mating systems and why defining monogamy has been a challenge for scientists. But you won't need a textbook or to download an online lecture. All you'll simply need to do is revisit the song "OPP" by Naughty by Nature.

(Laughter)

It was released in 1991. Now, "OPP" is a call-and-response song. So throughout the talk, I'm going to put lyrics up on the screen, and I'm going to recite some and I'm going to prompt you when it's your turn to do the response, OK?

(Cheers)

Now, I know some people in this audience know this song, so I need you to lead the way with the tempo and the rhythm, if that's alright, OK? Right, y'all ready?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
baby birds 3
male partner 2


Important Words


  1. alright
  2. animal
  3. audience
  4. challenge
  5. cheers
  6. defining
  7. download
  8. give
  9. good
  10. laughter
  11. lead
  12. lecture
  13. lesson
  14. lyrics
  15. mating
  16. monogamy
  17. nature
  18. naughty
  19. online
  20. people
  21. prompt
  22. put
  23. ready
  24. recite
  25. released
  26. response
  27. revisit
  28. rhythm
  29. science
  30. scientists
  31. screen
  32. simply
  33. song
  34. systems
  35. talk
  36. tempo
  37. textbook
  38. turn