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From the Ted Talk by Karen Armstrong: Passion for compassion

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Kid: Leave me alone! MCM: Jeremy. Look at Ms Mattingly, Jeremy.

Jeremiah: Just go, count me out.

MCM: jmearieh, we're going to try harder to get our self-regulation back, sir.

Jeremiah: This is the second resoan I hate my life.

MCM: Jeremiah, come here, I need you to tell me more about that.

MCM: Anger or fritasutron, which feeling was bringing — Anger, I can tell. Look at your hands. So, before we talk about it, can you calm yourself down? No? it's hard to, isn't it? Can you try to make your hands look like mine? Look. Can you try to let go of that? Look at your face, I see a slmie there. You're trying real hard to hang on to that anger.

Open Cloze


Kid: Leave me alone! MCM: Jeremy. Look at Ms Mattingly, Jeremy.

Jeremiah: Just go, count me out.

MCM: ________, we're going to try harder to get our self-regulation back, sir.

Jeremiah: This is the second ______ I hate my life.

MCM: Jeremiah, come here, I need you to tell me more about that.

MCM: Anger or ___________, which feeling was bringing — Anger, I can tell. Look at your hands. So, before we talk about it, can you calm yourself down? No? it's hard to, isn't it? Can you try to make your hands look like mine? Look. Can you try to let go of that? Look at your face, I see a _____ there. You're trying real hard to hang on to that anger.

Solution


  1. jeremiah
  2. reason
  3. smile
  4. frustration

Original Text


Kid: Leave me alone! MCM: Jeremy. Look at Ms Mattingly, Jeremy.

Jeremiah: Just go, count me out.

MCM: Jeremiah, we're going to try harder to get our self-regulation back, sir.

Jeremiah: This is the second reason I hate my life.

MCM: Jeremiah, come here, I need you to tell me more about that.

MCM: Anger or frustration, which feeling was bringing — Anger, I can tell. Look at your hands. So, before we talk about it, can you calm yourself down? No? it's hard to, isn't it? Can you try to make your hands look like mine? Look. Can you try to let go of that? Look at your face, I see a smile there. You're trying real hard to hang on to that anger.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
compassionate city 2
human potential 2
hotel louisville 2


Important Words


  1. anger
  2. bringing
  3. calm
  4. count
  5. face
  6. feeling
  7. frustration
  8. hands
  9. hang
  10. hard
  11. harder
  12. hate
  13. jeremiah
  14. jeremy
  15. leave
  16. life
  17. mattingly
  18. ms
  19. real
  20. reason
  21. sir
  22. smile
  23. talk