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From the Ted Talk by Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Good evening. My journey to this sgtae began when I came to armciea at the age of 17. You see, I'm one of the 84 million Americans who are immigrants or children of immigrants. Each of us has a dream when we come here, a dearm that usually has to be rtiwtreen and always has to be repurposed. I was one of the lucky ones. My revised dream led me to the work I do today: training immigrants to run for public office and ldaenig a movement for inclusive democracy.

But I don't want you to think it was a cakewalk, that America opened its arms wide and welcomed me. It's still not doing that. And I've learned a few lessons along the way that I wanted to share with you, because I think that together we can make American deocmrcay better and stronger.

Open Cloze


Good evening. My journey to this _____ began when I came to _______ at the age of 17. You see, I'm one of the 84 million Americans who are immigrants or children of immigrants. Each of us has a dream when we come here, a _____ that usually has to be _________ and always has to be repurposed. I was one of the lucky ones. My revised dream led me to the work I do today: training immigrants to run for public office and _______ a movement for inclusive democracy.

But I don't want you to think it was a cakewalk, that America opened its arms wide and welcomed me. It's still not doing that. And I've learned a few lessons along the way that I wanted to share with you, because I think that together we can make American _________ better and stronger.

Solution


  1. leading
  2. democracy
  3. america
  4. dream
  5. rewritten
  6. stage

Original Text


Good evening. My journey to this stage began when I came to America at the age of 17. You see, I'm one of the 84 million Americans who are immigrants or children of immigrants. Each of us has a dream when we come here, a dream that usually has to be rewritten and always has to be repurposed. I was one of the lucky ones. My revised dream led me to the work I do today: training immigrants to run for public office and leading a movement for inclusive democracy.

But I don't want you to think it was a cakewalk, that America opened its arms wide and welcomed me. It's still not doing that. And I've learned a few lessons along the way that I wanted to share with you, because I think that together we can make American democracy better and stronger.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
city council 4
american democracy 3
young people 3
york city 2
immigrant affairs 2
newly elected 2
local police 2
vantage point 2
vantage points 2
yakima city 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
yakima city council 2

Important Words


  1. age
  2. america
  3. american
  4. americans
  5. arms
  6. began
  7. cakewalk
  8. children
  9. democracy
  10. dream
  11. evening
  12. good
  13. immigrants
  14. inclusive
  15. journey
  16. leading
  17. learned
  18. led
  19. lessons
  20. lucky
  21. million
  22. movement
  23. office
  24. opened
  25. public
  26. repurposed
  27. revised
  28. rewritten
  29. run
  30. share
  31. stage
  32. stronger
  33. training
  34. wanted
  35. welcomed
  36. wide
  37. work