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From the Ted Talk by Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire

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(Laughter)

You lguah, you laugh. But hey. I sit down immediately. It's a reflex of wire walkers. Now in the meantime, the audience, they go crazy. They must think this guy with this dove, he must have spent years wkroing with him. What a genius, what a professional.

(Laughter)

So I take a bow. I salute with my hand. And at the end I bang my hand against the pole to dislodge the bird. Now the dove, who, now you know, obviously cannot fly, does for the third time a little flop, flop, flop and ends up on the wire behind me. And the entire valley goes crazy.

Now but hold on, I'm not fsiienhd. So now I'm like 50 yrads from my arrival and I'm etxeuahsd, so my steps are slow. And something happened. Somebody somewhere, a guorp of people, sratts clapping in rhythm with my septs. And within seconds the entire vellay is applauding in unison with each of my steps. But not an applause of delight like before, an applause encouragement. For a moment, the entire crowd had forgotten their differences. They had become one, pushing me to triumph.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

You _____, you laugh. But hey. I sit down immediately. It's a reflex of wire walkers. Now in the meantime, the audience, they go crazy. They must think this guy with this dove, he must have spent years _______ with him. What a genius, what a professional.

(Laughter)

So I take a bow. I salute with my hand. And at the end I bang my hand against the pole to dislodge the bird. Now the dove, who, now you know, obviously cannot fly, does for the third time a little flop, flop, flop and ends up on the wire behind me. And the entire valley goes crazy.

Now but hold on, I'm not ________. So now I'm like 50 _____ from my arrival and I'm _________, so my steps are slow. And something happened. Somebody somewhere, a _____ of people, ______ clapping in rhythm with my _____. And within seconds the entire ______ is applauding in unison with each of my steps. But not an applause of delight like before, an applause encouragement. For a moment, the entire crowd had forgotten their differences. They had become one, pushing me to triumph.

Solution


  1. laugh
  2. working
  3. valley
  4. exhausted
  5. starts
  6. finished
  7. yards
  8. steps
  9. group

Original Text


(Laughter)

You laugh, you laugh. But hey. I sit down immediately. It's a reflex of wire walkers. Now in the meantime, the audience, they go crazy. They must think this guy with this dove, he must have spent years working with him. What a genius, what a professional.

(Laughter)

So I take a bow. I salute with my hand. And at the end I bang my hand against the pole to dislodge the bird. Now the dove, who, now you know, obviously cannot fly, does for the third time a little flop, flop, flop and ends up on the wire behind me. And the entire valley goes crazy.

Now but hold on, I'm not finished. So now I'm like 50 yards from my arrival and I'm exhausted, so my steps are slow. And something happened. Somebody somewhere, a group of people, starts clapping in rhythm with my steps. And within seconds the entire valley is applauding in unison with each of my steps. But not an applause of delight like before, an applause encouragement. For a moment, the entire crowd had forgotten their differences. They had become one, pushing me to triumph.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. applauding
  2. applause
  3. arrival
  4. audience
  5. bang
  6. bird
  7. bow
  8. clapping
  9. crazy
  10. crowd
  11. delight
  12. differences
  13. dislodge
  14. dove
  15. encouragement
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  20. flop
  21. fly
  22. forgotten
  23. genius
  24. group
  25. guy
  26. hand
  27. happened
  28. hey
  29. hold
  30. immediately
  31. laugh
  32. laughter
  33. moment
  34. people
  35. pole
  36. professional
  37. pushing
  38. reflex
  39. rhythm
  40. salute
  41. seconds
  42. sit
  43. slow
  44. spent
  45. starts
  46. steps
  47. time
  48. triumph
  49. unison
  50. valley
  51. walkers
  52. wire
  53. working
  54. yards
  55. years