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From the Ted Talk by Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Fantastic. Give yourselves a round of asuppale. Take a seat, thank you.

(Applause)

Next time you spaek, do those in advance.

Now let me just put this in context to close. This is a serious point here. This is where we are now, right? We speak not very well to people who splmiy aren't listening in an eornmnenivt that's all about nosie and bad acoustics. I have talked about that on this stage in different phases. What would the wlrod be like if we were snaeikpg powerfully to people who were listening consciously in environments which were actually fit for purpose? Or to make that a bit larger, what would the world be like if we were creating sound consciously and consuming sound consciously and designing all our environments consciously for sound? That would be a world that does sound beautiful, and one where understanding would be the norm, and that is an idea wrtoh spreading.

Open Cloze


Fantastic. Give yourselves a round of ________. Take a seat, thank you.

(Applause)

Next time you _____, do those in advance.

Now let me just put this in context to close. This is a serious point here. This is where we are now, right? We speak not very well to people who ______ aren't listening in an ___________ that's all about _____ and bad acoustics. I have talked about that on this stage in different phases. What would the _____ be like if we were ________ powerfully to people who were listening consciously in environments which were actually fit for purpose? Or to make that a bit larger, what would the world be like if we were creating sound consciously and consuming sound consciously and designing all our environments consciously for sound? That would be a world that does sound beautiful, and one where understanding would be the norm, and that is an idea _____ spreading.

Solution


  1. environment
  2. speak
  3. simply
  4. world
  5. speaking
  6. noise
  7. worth
  8. applause

Original Text


Fantastic. Give yourselves a round of applause. Take a seat, thank you.

(Applause)

Next time you speak, do those in advance.

Now let me just put this in context to close. This is a serious point here. This is where we are now, right? We speak not very well to people who simply aren't listening in an environment that's all about noise and bad acoustics. I have talked about that on this stage in different phases. What would the world be like if we were speaking powerfully to people who were listening consciously in environments which were actually fit for purpose? Or to make that a bit larger, what would the world be like if we were creating sound consciously and consuming sound consciously and designing all our environments consciously for sound? That would be a world that does sound beautiful, and one where understanding would be the norm, and that is an idea worth spreading.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
deadly sins 2
sound consciously 2


Important Words


  1. acoustics
  2. advance
  3. applause
  4. bad
  5. beautiful
  6. bit
  7. close
  8. consciously
  9. consuming
  10. context
  11. creating
  12. designing
  13. environment
  14. environments
  15. fantastic
  16. fit
  17. give
  18. idea
  19. larger
  20. listening
  21. noise
  22. norm
  23. people
  24. phases
  25. point
  26. powerfully
  27. purpose
  28. put
  29. seat
  30. simply
  31. sound
  32. speak
  33. speaking
  34. spreading
  35. stage
  36. talked
  37. time
  38. understanding
  39. world
  40. worth