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From the Ted Talk by Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time


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Our dream is very simple: to send each of these kids, get them peeprrad to be educated but also to live plfaluecey, cnttoneed in this conflict-ridden chaotic globalized world. Now, when you talk global you have to talk English. And so all our schools are English mdeium schools. But they know there is this myth that children from the slums cannot speak English well. No one in their family has sopekn English. No one in their generation has spoken English. But how wrong it is.

Girl: I like adventurous books, and some of my favorites are Alfred Hitchcock and [unclear] and hdray Boys. Although they are like in different cettnoxs, one is magical, the other two are like investigation, I like those books because they have something special in them. The vocabulary used in those books and the style of writing. I mean like once I pick up one book I cannot put it down until I finish the whole book. Even if it takes me four and a half huros, or three and half hours to finish my book, I do it.

Open Cloze


Our dream is very simple: to send each of these kids, get them ________ to be educated but also to live __________, _________ in this conflict-ridden chaotic globalized world. Now, when you talk global you have to talk English. And so all our schools are English ______ schools. But they know there is this myth that children from the slums cannot speak English well. No one in their family has ______ English. No one in their generation has spoken English. But how wrong it is.

Girl: I like adventurous books, and some of my favorites are Alfred Hitchcock and [unclear] and _____ Boys. Although they are like in different ________, one is magical, the other two are like investigation, I like those books because they have something special in them. The vocabulary used in those books and the style of writing. I mean like once I pick up one book I cannot put it down until I finish the whole book. Even if it takes me four and a half _____, or three and half hours to finish my book, I do it.

Solution


  1. medium
  2. hours
  3. peacefully
  4. contented
  5. spoken
  6. hardy
  7. contexts
  8. prepared

Original Text


Our dream is very simple: to send each of these kids, get them prepared to be educated but also to live peacefully, contented in this conflict-ridden chaotic globalized world. Now, when you talk global you have to talk English. And so all our schools are English medium schools. But they know there is this myth that children from the slums cannot speak English well. No one in their family has spoken English. No one in their generation has spoken English. But how wrong it is.

Girl: I like adventurous books, and some of my favorites are Alfred Hitchcock and [unclear] and Hardy Boys. Although they are like in different contexts, one is magical, the other two are like investigation, I like those books because they have something special in them. The vocabulary used in those books and the style of writing. I mean like once I pick up one book I cannot put it down until I finish the whole book. Even if it takes me four and a half hours, or three and half hours to finish my book, I do it.

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Important Words


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