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From the Ted Talk by Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.


Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Music)

Look at the faces of ploepe whom you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom, not only their own story, but the story of their anrecosts. We all go back so far, and in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here, like a life-giving water, if you only open your hraet and drink.

(misuc)

Open your heart to the iblercndie gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch, and there is electric light. You turn a faceut, and there is warm water and cold weatr, and drinkable water. It's a gift that millions and mliolnis in the world will never experience.

Open Cloze


(Music)

Look at the faces of ______ whom you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom, not only their own story, but the story of their _________. We all go back so far, and in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here, like a life-giving water, if you only open your _____ and drink.

(_____)

Open your heart to the __________ gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch, and there is electric light. You turn a ______, and there is warm water and cold _____, and drinkable water. It's a gift that millions and ________ in the world will never experience.

Solution


  1. heart
  2. incredible
  3. people
  4. faucet
  5. music
  6. millions
  7. ancestors
  8. water

Original Text


(Music)

Look at the faces of people whom you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom, not only their own story, but the story of their ancestors. We all go back so far, and in this present moment, on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world flows together and meets you here, like a life-giving water, if you only open your heart and drink.

(Music)

Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us. You flip a switch, and there is electric light. You turn a faucet, and there is warm water and cold water, and drinkable water. It's a gift that millions and millions in the world will never experience.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
light energy 2



Important Words


  1. ancestors
  2. civilization
  3. cold
  4. day
  5. drink
  6. drinkable
  7. electric
  8. experience
  9. face
  10. faces
  11. fathom
  12. faucet
  13. flip
  14. flows
  15. fully
  16. generations
  17. gift
  18. gifts
  19. heart
  20. incredible
  21. life
  22. light
  23. meet
  24. meets
  25. millions
  26. moment
  27. music
  28. open
  29. people
  30. places
  31. present
  32. story
  33. switch
  34. turn
  35. warm
  36. water
  37. world