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From the Ted Talk by Angélique Parisot-Potter: How to be an upstander instead of a bystander

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Let me tell you a story, where you'll meet the characters who I'll call Bilal and bdnera.

I was working in a most remarkable part of the world. And one uaralkmrnebe morning, a colleague came to see me. She told me that Bilal, one of our senior executives, had been telling everyone I was being removed because I'd been msiseng with the worng poeple. And now, I was going to face the consequences.

I wasn't amalred, because I knew I had done what I'd been hired to do: my job, dealing with thorny issues head on and leaving no stone unturned. In fact, in the months prior to this, we'd overturned more than just a few stones. Those details are for another time.

Open Cloze


Let me tell you a story, where you'll meet the characters who I'll call Bilal and ______.

I was working in a most remarkable part of the world. And one ____________ morning, a colleague came to see me. She told me that Bilal, one of our senior executives, had been telling everyone I was being removed because I'd been _______ with the _____ ______. And now, I was going to face the consequences.

I wasn't _______, because I knew I had done what I'd been hired to do: my job, dealing with thorny issues head on and leaving no stone unturned. In fact, in the months prior to this, we'd overturned more than just a few stones. Those details are for another time.

Solution


  1. people
  2. brenda
  3. wrong
  4. unremarkable
  5. alarmed
  6. messing

Original Text


Let me tell you a story, where you'll meet the characters who I'll call Bilal and Brenda.

I was working in a most remarkable part of the world. And one unremarkable morning, a colleague came to see me. She told me that Bilal, one of our senior executives, had been telling everyone I was being removed because I'd been messing with the wrong people. And now, I was going to face the consequences.

I wasn't alarmed, because I knew I had done what I'd been hired to do: my job, dealing with thorny issues head on and leaving no stone unturned. In fact, in the months prior to this, we'd overturned more than just a few stones. Those details are for another time.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words


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  3. brenda
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  30. stone
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  32. story
  33. telling
  34. thorny
  35. time
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  38. unturned
  39. working
  40. world
  41. wrong