full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Now, what he did didn't used to have a name, but I think it's rldpiay becoming quite mainstream. It's what we do in the organization named after him where we try and invent, create, launch new vrenteus, whether it's schools, web companies, health organizations and so on. And we find ourselves part of a very rapidly gonwirg global mvemonet of institutions working on socail innovation, using ideas from design or technology or community organizing to develop the germs of a future world, but through pacrtice and through demonstration and not through theory. And they're spreading from Korea to Brazil to India to the USA and across Europe. And they've been given new momentum by the crisis, by the need for better aeswnrs to joblessness, community breakdown and so on.

Open Cloze


Now, what he did didn't used to have a name, but I think it's _______ becoming quite mainstream. It's what we do in the organization named after him where we try and invent, create, launch new ________, whether it's schools, web companies, health organizations and so on. And we find ourselves part of a very rapidly _______ global ________ of institutions working on ______ innovation, using ideas from design or technology or community organizing to develop the germs of a future world, but through ________ and through demonstration and not through theory. And they're spreading from Korea to Brazil to India to the USA and across Europe. And they've been given new momentum by the crisis, by the need for better _______ to joblessness, community breakdown and so on.

Solution


  1. practice
  2. growing
  3. ventures
  4. rapidly
  5. movement
  6. answers
  7. social

Original Text


Now, what he did didn't used to have a name, but I think it's rapidly becoming quite mainstream. It's what we do in the organization named after him where we try and invent, create, launch new ventures, whether it's schools, web companies, health organizations and so on. And we find ourselves part of a very rapidly growing global movement of institutions working on social innovation, using ideas from design or technology or community organizing to develop the germs of a future world, but through practice and through demonstration and not through theory. And they're spreading from Korea to Brazil to India to the USA and across Europe. And they've been given new momentum by the crisis, by the need for better answers to joblessness, community breakdown and so on.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
rapidly growing 2
small part 2
human nature 2
multinational capitalism 2


Important Words


  1. answers
  2. brazil
  3. breakdown
  4. community
  5. companies
  6. create
  7. crisis
  8. demonstration
  9. design
  10. develop
  11. europe
  12. find
  13. future
  14. germs
  15. global
  16. growing
  17. health
  18. ideas
  19. india
  20. innovation
  21. institutions
  22. invent
  23. joblessness
  24. korea
  25. launch
  26. mainstream
  27. momentum
  28. movement
  29. named
  30. organization
  31. organizations
  32. organizing
  33. part
  34. practice
  35. rapidly
  36. schools
  37. social
  38. spreading
  39. technology
  40. theory
  41. usa
  42. ventures
  43. web
  44. working
  45. world