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From the Ted Talk by Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps

Unscramble the Blue Letters


What I do is I organize information. I'm a graphic designer. Professionally, I try to make sense often of things that don't make much sense themselves.

So my father might not understand what it is that I do for a living. His part of my ancestry has been farmers. He's part of this ethnic minority called the ptoinc Greeks. They lived in Asia mnior and fled to Greece after a gecinode about a hundred years ago. And ever since that, migration has somewhat been a tmehe in my family. My father moved to Germany, studied there and married, and as a relsut, I now have this half-German brain, with all the analytical tnhkniig and that sltlhgiy dorky demeanor that come with that. And of course it meant that I was a fregeionr in both countries, and that of course made it pretty easy for me to migrate as well, in good family tradition, if you like.

Open Cloze


What I do is I organize information. I'm a graphic designer. Professionally, I try to make sense often of things that don't make much sense themselves.

So my father might not understand what it is that I do for a living. His part of my ancestry has been farmers. He's part of this ethnic minority called the ______ Greeks. They lived in Asia _____ and fled to Greece after a ________ about a hundred years ago. And ever since that, migration has somewhat been a _____ in my family. My father moved to Germany, studied there and married, and as a ______, I now have this half-German brain, with all the analytical ________ and that ________ dorky demeanor that come with that. And of course it meant that I was a _________ in both countries, and that of course made it pretty easy for me to migrate as well, in good family tradition, if you like.

Solution


  1. minor
  2. foreigner
  3. pontic
  4. result
  5. theme
  6. slightly
  7. thinking
  8. genocide

Original Text


What I do is I organize information. I'm a graphic designer. Professionally, I try to make sense often of things that don't make much sense themselves.

So my father might not understand what it is that I do for a living. His part of my ancestry has been farmers. He's part of this ethnic minority called the Pontic Greeks. They lived in Asia Minor and fled to Greece after a genocide about a hundred years ago. And ever since that, migration has somewhat been a theme in my family. My father moved to Germany, studied there and married, and as a result, I now have this half-German brain, with all the analytical thinking and that slightly dorky demeanor that come with that. And of course it meant that I was a foreigner in both countries, and that of course made it pretty easy for me to migrate as well, in good family tradition, if you like.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
public transport 16
city center 6
rapid transport 6
local buses 4
transport map 4
cognitive map 3
transport maps 3
bus route 3
linear routes 2
main street 2
side street 2
main cathedral 2
cognitive maps 2
street map 2
geographic distortion 2
tube map 2
local bus 2
bus routes 2
separate line 2
coherent public 2
crucial step 2
transport network 2
side streets 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
public transport map 4
public transport maps 3
coherent public transport 2
public transport network 2

Important Words


  1. analytical
  2. ancestry
  3. asia
  4. brain
  5. called
  6. countries
  7. demeanor
  8. designer
  9. dorky
  10. easy
  11. ethnic
  12. family
  13. farmers
  14. father
  15. fled
  16. foreigner
  17. genocide
  18. germany
  19. good
  20. graphic
  21. greece
  22. greeks
  23. information
  24. lived
  25. living
  26. married
  27. meant
  28. migrate
  29. migration
  30. minor
  31. minority
  32. moved
  33. organize
  34. part
  35. pontic
  36. pretty
  37. professionally
  38. result
  39. sense
  40. slightly
  41. studied
  42. theme
  43. thinking
  44. tradition
  45. understand
  46. years