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From the Ted Talk by Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark

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Whenever I talk to kids, I always like to tell them, the biggest animal that ever lived is still alive. It's not a dinosaur; it's a whlae, animals as big as office bginildus still swimming around out there in our ocean. Speaking of dinosaurs, sharks are basically the same fish they were 300 million years ago. So if you ever fantasize about going back in time and seeing what a dinosaur looked like, that's what a dinosaur looks like. So you have living dinosaurs and space aleins, animals that eelovvd in zero gravity in harsh cidonintos. It's just incredible; no Hollywood dgeensir could come up with something more interesting than that. Or this fangtooth. The particles in the water make it look like it's floating in outer space. Could you image if we looked through the Hubble Telescope and we saw that? It would sartt a whole new scpae race. But instead, we stick a camera in the deep ocean, and we see a fish, and it doesn't capture our iaagoimntin as a society. We say to ourselves, "Maybe we can make fish sticks with it or something."

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Whenever I talk to kids, I always like to tell them, the biggest animal that ever lived is still alive. It's not a dinosaur; it's a _____, animals as big as office _________ still swimming around out there in our ocean. Speaking of dinosaurs, sharks are basically the same fish they were 300 million years ago. So if you ever fantasize about going back in time and seeing what a dinosaur looked like, that's what a dinosaur looks like. So you have living dinosaurs and space ______, animals that _______ in zero gravity in harsh __________. It's just incredible; no Hollywood ________ could come up with something more interesting than that. Or this fangtooth. The particles in the water make it look like it's floating in outer space. Could you image if we looked through the Hubble Telescope and we saw that? It would _____ a whole new _____ race. But instead, we stick a camera in the deep ocean, and we see a fish, and it doesn't capture our ___________ as a society. We say to ourselves, "Maybe we can make fish sticks with it or something."

Solution


  1. buildings
  2. conditions
  3. space
  4. imagination
  5. designer
  6. aliens
  7. whale
  8. evolved
  9. start

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Whenever I talk to kids, I always like to tell them, the biggest animal that ever lived is still alive. It's not a dinosaur; it's a whale, animals as big as office buildings still swimming around out there in our ocean. Speaking of dinosaurs, sharks are basically the same fish they were 300 million years ago. So if you ever fantasize about going back in time and seeing what a dinosaur looked like, that's what a dinosaur looks like. So you have living dinosaurs and space aliens, animals that evolved in zero gravity in harsh conditions. It's just incredible; no Hollywood designer could come up with something more interesting than that. Or this fangtooth. The particles in the water make it look like it's floating in outer space. Could you image if we looked through the Hubble Telescope and we saw that? It would start a whole new space race. But instead, we stick a camera in the deep ocean, and we see a fish, and it doesn't capture our imagination as a society. We say to ourselves, "Maybe we can make fish sticks with it or something."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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comic strip 3
great white 3
white shark 3
plastic bottle 3
cartoon character 2
marine debris 2
shark fin 2
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collocation frequency
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shark fin soup 2

Important Words


  1. aliens
  2. alive
  3. animal
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  5. basically
  6. big
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  10. capture
  11. conditions
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  13. designer
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  22. harsh
  23. hollywood
  24. hubble
  25. image
  26. imagination
  27. interesting
  28. kids
  29. lived
  30. living
  31. looked
  32. million
  33. ocean
  34. office
  35. outer
  36. particles
  37. race
  38. sharks
  39. society
  40. space
  41. speaking
  42. start
  43. stick
  44. sticks
  45. swimming
  46. talk
  47. telescope
  48. time
  49. water
  50. whale
  51. years