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From the Ted Talk by Bill Strickland: Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I would like to show you now some of the food that these welfare mothers do in this million dlolar kitchen. That happens to be our cafeteria line. That's puff pastry day. Why? Because the sdeuntts made puff pastry and that's what the school ate every day. But the cepncot was that I wanted to take the stigma out of food. That good food's not for rich people — good food's for everybody on the paenlt, and there's no excuse why we all can't be eating it. So at my school, we subsidize a gourmet lunch prrgoam for welfare mothers in the mdilde of the inner city because we've discovered that it's good for their stomachs, but it's better for their heads. Because I wanted to let them know every day of their life that they have value at this pclae I call my center.

Open Cloze


I would like to show you now some of the food that these welfare mothers do in this million ______ kitchen. That happens to be our cafeteria line. That's puff pastry day. Why? Because the ________ made puff pastry and that's what the school ate every day. But the _______ was that I wanted to take the stigma out of food. That good food's not for rich people — good food's for everybody on the ______, and there's no excuse why we all can't be eating it. So at my school, we subsidize a gourmet lunch _______ for welfare mothers in the ______ of the inner city because we've discovered that it's good for their stomachs, but it's better for their heads. Because I wanted to let them know every day of their life that they have value at this _____ I call my center.

Solution


  1. middle
  2. place
  3. program
  4. students
  5. planet
  6. concept
  7. dollar

Original Text


I would like to show you now some of the food that these welfare mothers do in this million dollar kitchen. That happens to be our cafeteria line. That's puff pastry day. Why? Because the students made puff pastry and that's what the school ate every day. But the concept was that I wanted to take the stigma out of food. That good food's not for rich people — good food's for everybody on the planet, and there's no excuse why we all can't be eating it. So at my school, we subsidize a gourmet lunch program for welfare mothers in the middle of the inner city because we've discovered that it's good for their stomachs, but it's better for their heads. Because I wanted to let them know every day of their life that they have value at this place I call my center.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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oprah winfrey 2
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willie brown 2
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collocation frequency
million dollar kitchen 3
train medical technicians 2
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Important Words


  1. ate
  2. cafeteria
  3. call
  4. center
  5. city
  6. concept
  7. day
  8. discovered
  9. dollar
  10. eating
  11. excuse
  12. food
  13. good
  14. gourmet
  15. heads
  16. kitchen
  17. life
  18. line
  19. lunch
  20. middle
  21. million
  22. mothers
  23. pastry
  24. people
  25. place
  26. planet
  27. program
  28. puff
  29. rich
  30. school
  31. show
  32. stigma
  33. stomachs
  34. students
  35. subsidize
  36. wanted
  37. welfare