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From the Ted Talk by Eames Demetrios: The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is a film, the one called Toys. You can see me, I have the same hcriuat, in the upper right corner. upepr left is a film they did on toy trains. Lower right is a solar do-nothing toy. Lower left is Day-of-the-Dead toys. Charles used to say that toys are not as innocent as they appear. They are often the precursor to bigger things. And these ideas — that train up there, being about the hensot use of materials, is totally the same as the honest use of miletaras in the plywood.

And now I'm going to test you. This is a letter that my ghtaarendfr sent to my mom when she was five yaers old. So can you read it? Lucia angel, okay, eye.

Open Cloze


This is a film, the one called Toys. You can see me, I have the same _______, in the upper right corner. _____ left is a film they did on toy trains. Lower right is a solar do-nothing toy. Lower left is Day-of-the-Dead toys. Charles used to say that toys are not as innocent as they appear. They are often the precursor to bigger things. And these ideas — that train up there, being about the ______ use of materials, is totally the same as the honest use of _________ in the plywood.

And now I'm going to test you. This is a letter that my ___________ sent to my mom when she was five _____ old. So can you read it? Lucia angel, okay, eye.

Solution


  1. upper
  2. honest
  3. years
  4. materials
  5. grandfather
  6. haircut

Original Text


This is a film, the one called Toys. You can see me, I have the same haircut, in the upper right corner. Upper left is a film they did on toy trains. Lower right is a solar do-nothing toy. Lower left is Day-of-the-Dead toys. Charles used to say that toys are not as innocent as they appear. They are often the precursor to bigger things. And these ideas — that train up there, being about the honest use of materials, is totally the same as the honest use of materials in the plywood.

And now I'm going to test you. This is a letter that my grandfather sent to my mom when she was five years old. So can you read it? Lucia angel, okay, eye.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
banana leaf 5
united states 2
holistic vision 2
ray designed 2
upper left 2


Important Words


  1. angel
  2. bigger
  3. called
  4. charles
  5. corner
  6. eye
  7. film
  8. grandfather
  9. haircut
  10. honest
  11. ideas
  12. innocent
  13. left
  14. letter
  15. lucia
  16. materials
  17. mom
  18. plywood
  19. precursor
  20. read
  21. solar
  22. test
  23. totally
  24. toy
  25. toys
  26. train
  27. trains
  28. upper
  29. years