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From the Ted Talk by Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, as you can imagine, it's quite challenging to live with just a smlal group of people in a small space for a long time. There's all kinds of psychological challenges: how to keep a team together in these circumstances; how to deal with the warping of time you start to sesne when you're living in these circumstances; sleep problems that arise; etc. But also we lneaerd a lot. I learned a lot about how iaivdunidl crew members actually cope with a situation like this; how you can keep a crew productive and happy, for example, giving them a good deal of autonomy is a good tcrik to do that; and honestly, I learned a lot about lhiaesrdep, because I was a crew commander.

Open Cloze


Now, as you can imagine, it's quite challenging to live with just a _____ group of people in a small space for a long time. There's all kinds of psychological challenges: how to keep a team together in these circumstances; how to deal with the warping of time you start to _____ when you're living in these circumstances; sleep problems that arise; etc. But also we _______ a lot. I learned a lot about how __________ crew members actually cope with a situation like this; how you can keep a crew productive and happy, for example, giving them a good deal of autonomy is a good _____ to do that; and honestly, I learned a lot about __________, because I was a crew commander.

Solution


  1. trick
  2. leadership
  3. small
  4. individual
  5. learned
  6. sense

Original Text


Now, as you can imagine, it's quite challenging to live with just a small group of people in a small space for a long time. There's all kinds of psychological challenges: how to keep a team together in these circumstances; how to deal with the warping of time you start to sense when you're living in these circumstances; sleep problems that arise; etc. But also we learned a lot. I learned a lot about how individual crew members actually cope with a situation like this; how you can keep a crew productive and happy, for example, giving them a good deal of autonomy is a good trick to do that; and honestly, I learned a lot about leadership, because I was a crew commander.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
outer space 3
crew commander 2
long time 2


Important Words


  1. autonomy
  2. challenging
  3. commander
  4. cope
  5. crew
  6. deal
  7. giving
  8. good
  9. group
  10. happy
  11. honestly
  12. imagine
  13. individual
  14. kinds
  15. leadership
  16. learned
  17. live
  18. living
  19. long
  20. lot
  21. members
  22. people
  23. problems
  24. productive
  25. psychological
  26. sense
  27. situation
  28. sleep
  29. small
  30. space
  31. start
  32. team
  33. time
  34. trick
  35. warping