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From the Ted Talk by Alicia Eggert: Imaginative sculptures that explore how we perceive reality

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So if you can humor me for one more minute, I'm going to ask everyone in this theater to hold hands. When was the last time you held hands with a stranger?

(Laughter)

And if you feel comfortable, go ahead and make that metaphorical gesture of rcenhiag across the aisle. And after you've held hdnas with people on either side of you, if you feel colroabftme, please close your eyes. Now take a mnitue to imagine what you want, what you want the future to look like. And give yourself permission to be at least a little bit idealistic. What do you want to see change or hpaepn in your own life as an individual? What do you want to see change or happen for everyone, for the planet? Can you picture it? And can you start to see how, if we all woerkd together, it might actually be possible? Now open your eyes, and let's make it real.

Open Cloze


So if you can humor me for one more minute, I'm going to ask everyone in this theater to hold hands. When was the last time you held hands with a stranger?

(Laughter)

And if you feel comfortable, go ahead and make that metaphorical gesture of ________ across the aisle. And after you've held _____ with people on either side of you, if you feel ___________, please close your eyes. Now take a ______ to imagine what you want, what you want the future to look like. And give yourself permission to be at least a little bit idealistic. What do you want to see change or ______ in your own life as an individual? What do you want to see change or happen for everyone, for the planet? Can you picture it? And can you start to see how, if we all ______ together, it might actually be possible? Now open your eyes, and let's make it real.

Solution


  1. happen
  2. worked
  3. reaching
  4. comfortable
  5. hands
  6. minute

Original Text


So if you can humor me for one more minute, I'm going to ask everyone in this theater to hold hands. When was the last time you held hands with a stranger?

(Laughter)

And if you feel comfortable, go ahead and make that metaphorical gesture of reaching across the aisle. And after you've held hands with people on either side of you, if you feel comfortable, please close your eyes. Now take a minute to imagine what you want, what you want the future to look like. And give yourself permission to be at least a little bit idealistic. What do you want to see change or happen in your own life as an individual? What do you want to see change or happen for everyone, for the planet? Can you picture it? And can you start to see how, if we all worked together, it might actually be possible? Now open your eyes, and let's make it real.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  5. comfortable
  6. eyes
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  15. humor
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  20. life
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  22. minute
  23. open
  24. people
  25. permission
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  27. planet
  28. reaching
  29. real
  30. side
  31. start
  32. stranger
  33. theater
  34. time
  35. worked