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From the Ted Talk by Yuko Munakata: The science behind how parents affect child development

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Well, how many of you know how a bicycle works? Right, you've seen people riding bikes, maybe you've ridden one yourself or even tried to teach someone else how to do it. Just like parenting — you've seen people doing it, maybe you've done it yourself or even tried to teach someone else how to do it. We can feel confident about what we know. When we say we know how a bicycle works, we think we have something in our heads like this. Something that relates the pledas to the chain and to the wheels. But when you ask people to explain how a bclicye wokrs, they produce drawings like this. And like this.

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Well, how many of you know how a bicycle works? Right, you've seen people riding bikes, maybe you've ridden one yourself or even tried to teach someone else how to do it. Just like parenting — you've seen people doing it, maybe you've done it yourself or even tried to teach someone else how to do it. We can feel confident about what we know. When we say we know how a bicycle works, we think we have something in our heads like this. Something that relates the ______ to the chain and to the wheels. But when you ask people to explain how a _______ _____, they produce drawings like this. And like this.

Solution


  1. pedals
  2. works
  3. bicycle

Original Text


Well, how many of you know how a bicycle works? Right, you've seen people riding bikes, maybe you've ridden one yourself or even tried to teach someone else how to do it. Just like parenting — you've seen people doing it, maybe you've done it yourself or even tried to teach someone else how to do it. We can feel confident about what we know. When we say we know how a bicycle works, we think we have something in our heads like this. Something that relates the pedals to the chain and to the wheels. But when you ask people to explain how a bicycle works, they produce drawings like this. And like this.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
parenting books 3
stop blaming 3
child development 2
children growing 2
shape children 2
parents matter 2
feel judged 2
dragon parents 2


Important Words


  1. bicycle
  2. bikes
  3. chain
  4. confident
  5. drawings
  6. explain
  7. feel
  8. heads
  9. parenting
  10. pedals
  11. people
  12. produce
  13. relates
  14. ridden
  15. riding
  16. teach
  17. wheels
  18. works