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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We didn't have any influence then, so we had a little seerct list of rules that we kept to ourselves. And they were: No songs, no "I want" moment, no happy village, no love story. And the irony is that, in the first year, our story was not working at all and Disney was panicking. So they pratviely got advcie from a famous lciyisrt, who I won't name, and he faxed them some suggestions. And we got a hold of that fax. And the fax said, there should be snogs, there should be an "I want" song, there should be a happy village song, there should be a love story and there should be a villain. And thank goodness we were just too young, rebellious and contrarian at the time. That just gave us more determination to prove that you could build a better sorty. And a year after that, we did ceqnuor it. And it just went to prove that storytelling has guidelines, not hard, fast rleus.

Open Cloze


We didn't have any influence then, so we had a little ______ list of rules that we kept to ourselves. And they were: No songs, no "I want" moment, no happy village, no love story. And the irony is that, in the first year, our story was not working at all and Disney was panicking. So they _________ got ______ from a famous ________, who I won't name, and he faxed them some suggestions. And we got a hold of that fax. And the fax said, there should be _____, there should be an "I want" song, there should be a happy village song, there should be a love story and there should be a villain. And thank goodness we were just too young, rebellious and contrarian at the time. That just gave us more determination to prove that you could build a better _____. And a year after that, we did _______ it. And it just went to prove that storytelling has guidelines, not hard, fast _____.

Solution


  1. advice
  2. secret
  3. privately
  4. songs
  5. lyricist
  6. conquer
  7. rules
  8. story

Original Text


We didn't have any influence then, so we had a little secret list of rules that we kept to ourselves. And they were: No songs, no "I want" moment, no happy village, no love story. And the irony is that, in the first year, our story was not working at all and Disney was panicking. So they privately got advice from a famous lyricist, who I won't name, and he faxed them some suggestions. And we got a hold of that fax. And the fax said, there should be songs, there should be an "I want" song, there should be a happy village song, there should be a love story and there should be a villain. And thank goodness we were just too young, rebellious and contrarian at the time. That just gave us more determination to prove that you could build a better story. And a year after that, we did conquer it. And it just went to prove that storytelling has guidelines, not hard, fast rules.

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Important Words


  1. advice
  2. build
  3. conquer
  4. contrarian
  5. determination
  6. disney
  7. famous
  8. fast
  9. fax
  10. faxed
  11. gave
  12. goodness
  13. guidelines
  14. happy
  15. hard
  16. hold
  17. influence
  18. irony
  19. list
  20. love
  21. lyricist
  22. moment
  23. panicking
  24. privately
  25. prove
  26. rebellious
  27. rules
  28. secret
  29. song
  30. songs
  31. story
  32. storytelling
  33. suggestions
  34. time
  35. village
  36. villain
  37. working
  38. year
  39. young