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From the Ted Talk by Stuart Brown: Play is more than just fun

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This is our maiden voyage in this. We're about two and a half, three months into it, and it's really been fun. There is our star pupil, this lboaadrr, who taught a lot of us what a state of play is, and an extremely aged and decrepit professor in charge there. And Brendan Boyle, Rich Crandall — and on the far right is, I think, a person who will be in cahoots with George Smoot for a Nobel Prize — Stuart Thompson, in neuroscience. So we've had bredann, who's from IDEO, and the rest of us sitting aside and watching these students as they put play principles into pracicte in the csosraolm. And one of their pjertcos was to see what makes meetings boirng, and to try and do something about it. So what will follow is a student-made film about just that.

Open Cloze


This is our maiden voyage in this. We're about two and a half, three months into it, and it's really been fun. There is our star pupil, this ________, who taught a lot of us what a state of play is, and an extremely aged and decrepit professor in charge there. And Brendan Boyle, Rich Crandall — and on the far right is, I think, a person who will be in cahoots with George Smoot for a Nobel Prize — Stuart Thompson, in neuroscience. So we've had _______, who's from IDEO, and the rest of us sitting aside and watching these students as they put play principles into ________ in the _________. And one of their ________ was to see what makes meetings ______, and to try and do something about it. So what will follow is a student-made film about just that.

Solution


  1. labrador
  2. projects
  3. boring
  4. practice
  5. brendan
  6. classroom

Original Text


This is our maiden voyage in this. We're about two and a half, three months into it, and it's really been fun. There is our star pupil, this labrador, who taught a lot of us what a state of play is, and an extremely aged and decrepit professor in charge there. And Brendan Boyle, Rich Crandall — and on the far right is, I think, a person who will be in cahoots with George Smoot for a Nobel Prize — Stuart Thompson, in neuroscience. So we've had Brendan, who's from IDEO, and the rest of us sitting aside and watching these students as they put play principles into practice in the classroom. And one of their projects was to see what makes meetings boring, and to try and do something about it. So what will follow is a student-made film about just that.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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kevin carroll 2
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Important Words


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