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From the Ted Talk by Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So my next film is called "Paani" which maens waetr. And now, out of the mythology of that, I'm starting to cerate a world. What kind of world do I create, and where does the idea, the design of that come? So, in my mind, in the fturue, they started to bliud flyovers. You understand fvroyles? Yeah? They started to build flyovers to get from A to B faster, but they effectively went from one area of relative wealth to another area of reatvile wealth. And then what they did was they created a city above the flyovers. And the rich people moved to the upper city and left the poorer people in the lower cities, about 10 to 12 percent of the people have moved to the upper city.

Open Cloze


So my next film is called "Paani" which _____ _____. And now, out of the mythology of that, I'm starting to ______ a world. What kind of world do I create, and where does the idea, the design of that come? So, in my mind, in the ______, they started to _____ flyovers. You understand ________? Yeah? They started to build flyovers to get from A to B faster, but they effectively went from one area of relative wealth to another area of ________ wealth. And then what they did was they created a city above the flyovers. And the rich people moved to the upper city and left the poorer people in the lower cities, about 10 to 12 percent of the people have moved to the upper city.

Solution


  1. build
  2. create
  3. future
  4. means
  5. flyovers
  6. water
  7. relative

Original Text


So my next film is called "Paani" which means water. And now, out of the mythology of that, I'm starting to create a world. What kind of world do I create, and where does the idea, the design of that come? So, in my mind, in the future, they started to build flyovers. You understand flyovers? Yeah? They started to build flyovers to get from A to B faster, but they effectively went from one area of relative wealth to another area of relative wealth. And then what they did was they created a city above the flyovers. And the rich people moved to the upper city and left the poorer people in the lower cities, about 10 to 12 percent of the people have moved to the upper city.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
walter raleigh 4
upper city 4
buy time 2
build flyovers 2
relative wealth 2
notes suggest 2
resolution harmony 2


Important Words


  1. area
  2. build
  3. called
  4. cities
  5. city
  6. create
  7. created
  8. design
  9. effectively
  10. faster
  11. film
  12. flyovers
  13. future
  14. idea
  15. kind
  16. left
  17. means
  18. mind
  19. moved
  20. mythology
  21. people
  22. percent
  23. poorer
  24. relative
  25. rich
  26. started
  27. starting
  28. understand
  29. upper
  30. water
  31. wealth
  32. world
  33. yeah