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From the Ted Talk by Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And then the sochol eantcs perfectly well. It mmciis perfectly all the rituals that we will find in offices: rituals of ertny, rituals of exit, the schedules, the unfrmios in this country, things that identify you, team-building activities, team budniilg that will allow you to basically be with a random gurop of kids, or a random group of people that you will have to be with for a number of time. And of course, the major thing: learn to pay attention, to concentrate and focus your attention. This only started about 150 years ago. It only started with the birth of modern bureaucracy, and of industrial revolution. When pploee basically had to go somewhere else to work and carry out the work. And when with modern bureaucracy there was a very rational approach, where there was a cealr distinction between the private sphere and the public sphere.

Open Cloze


And then the ______ ______ perfectly well. It ______ perfectly all the rituals that we will find in offices: rituals of _____, rituals of exit, the schedules, the ________ in this country, things that identify you, team-building activities, team ________ that will allow you to basically be with a random _____ of kids, or a random group of people that you will have to be with for a number of time. And of course, the major thing: learn to pay attention, to concentrate and focus your attention. This only started about 150 years ago. It only started with the birth of modern bureaucracy, and of industrial revolution. When ______ basically had to go somewhere else to work and carry out the work. And when with modern bureaucracy there was a very rational approach, where there was a _____ distinction between the private sphere and the public sphere.

Solution


  1. school
  2. people
  3. enacts
  4. building
  5. entry
  6. clear
  7. uniforms
  8. mimics
  9. group

Original Text


And then the school enacts perfectly well. It mimics perfectly all the rituals that we will find in offices: rituals of entry, rituals of exit, the schedules, the uniforms in this country, things that identify you, team-building activities, team building that will allow you to basically be with a random group of kids, or a random group of people that you will have to be with for a number of time. And of course, the major thing: learn to pay attention, to concentrate and focus your attention. This only started about 150 years ago. It only started with the birth of modern bureaucracy, and of industrial revolution. When people basically had to go somewhere else to work and carry out the work. And when with modern bureaucracy there was a very rational approach, where there was a clear distinction between the private sphere and the public sphere.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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random group 2
personal sphere 2
private email 2
mobile phone 2


Important Words


  1. activities
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  3. attention
  4. basically
  5. birth
  6. building
  7. bureaucracy
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  9. clear
  10. concentrate
  11. country
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  25. modern
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  29. perfectly
  30. private
  31. public
  32. random
  33. rational
  34. revolution
  35. rituals
  36. schedules
  37. school
  38. sphere
  39. started
  40. team
  41. time
  42. uniforms
  43. work
  44. years