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From the Ted Talk by Serena Williams and Gayle King: On tennis, love and motherhood

Unscramble the Blue Letters


GK: Yeah, when you don't win, that's a big story.

SW: Yes, so for me, I had to really take anything negative and any emotions that I was fleenig at that point and kind of just bottle them up and really figure out what the next step for me to do was.

GK: You have a lot of srpuopt. You have a lot of love. Even when I was coming here, people stopped me at the airport. I was saying to the fihlgt attadnnet, the pilot, "Guess where I'm going?" They said, "Oh my God, we're so glad she's pregnant." But then you always have these cranky Yankees. On the way over here, somebody was tillneg me about Ilie Nastase, who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things. You have rnoeedspd to him. I'm not even going to dignify what he said, but you responded. Why did you respond?

Open Cloze


GK: Yeah, when you don't win, that's a big story.

SW: Yes, so for me, I had to really take anything negative and any emotions that I was _______ at that point and kind of just bottle them up and really figure out what the next step for me to do was.

GK: You have a lot of _______. You have a lot of love. Even when I was coming here, people stopped me at the airport. I was saying to the ______ _________, the pilot, "Guess where I'm going?" They said, "Oh my God, we're so glad she's pregnant." But then you always have these cranky Yankees. On the way over here, somebody was _______ me about Ilie Nastase, who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things. You have _________ to him. I'm not even going to dignify what he said, but you responded. Why did you respond?

Solution


  1. telling
  2. flight
  3. responded
  4. attendant
  5. feeling
  6. support

Original Text


GK: Yeah, when you don't win, that's a big story.

SW: Yes, so for me, I had to really take anything negative and any emotions that I was feeling at that point and kind of just bottle them up and really figure out what the next step for me to do was.

GK: You have a lot of support. You have a lot of love. Even when I was coming here, people stopped me at the airport. I was saying to the flight attendant, the pilot, "Guess where I'm going?" They said, "Oh my God, we're so glad she's pregnant." But then you always have these cranky Yankees. On the way over here, somebody was telling me about Ilie Nastase, who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things. You have responded to him. I'm not even going to dignify what he said, but you responded. Why did you respond?

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Important Words


  1. airport
  2. attendant
  3. big
  4. bottle
  5. coming
  6. cranky
  7. dignify
  8. emotions
  9. feeling
  10. figure
  11. flight
  12. glad
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  14. ilie
  15. inappropriate
  16. kind
  17. lot
  18. love
  19. nastase
  20. negative
  21. people
  22. pilot
  23. point
  24. pregnant
  25. racial
  26. respond
  27. responded
  28. step
  29. stopped
  30. story
  31. support
  32. telling
  33. unkind
  34. win
  35. yankees
  36. yeah