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From the Ted Talk by Marc Bamuthi Joseph: What soccer can teach us about freedom

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in hrealm, or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two negiiarn immigrants. You love the game. You're on the field with your folks. You've just been practicing dribbling through cones for, like, 15 minutes, and then, all of a sudden, a mcrahing band comes down the field. I want to aossatice the joy of the game with the exuberance of culture, to locate the site of joy in the game at the same physical coordinate as being politically informed by art, a grass-laden theater for ltariiebon. We spend a week looking at how the mlfeeddiir would eilpaxn Black Lives Matter, or how the gealepoekr would explain gun control, or how a defender's style is the perfect metaphor for the limits of American exceptionalism. As we study positions on the field, we also name and igiamne our own freedoms.

Open Cloze


Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in ______, or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two ________ immigrants. You love the game. You're on the field with your folks. You've just been practicing dribbling through cones for, like, 15 minutes, and then, all of a sudden, a ________ band comes down the field. I want to _________ the joy of the game with the exuberance of culture, to locate the site of joy in the game at the same physical coordinate as being politically informed by art, a grass-laden theater for __________. We spend a week looking at how the __________ would _______ Black Lives Matter, or how the __________ would explain gun control, or how a defender's style is the perfect metaphor for the limits of American exceptionalism. As we study positions on the field, we also name and _______ our own freedoms.

Solution


  1. nigerian
  2. associate
  3. marching
  4. liberation
  5. goalkeeper
  6. imagine
  7. midfielder
  8. explain
  9. harlem

Original Text


Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in Harlem, or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two Nigerian immigrants. You love the game. You're on the field with your folks. You've just been practicing dribbling through cones for, like, 15 minutes, and then, all of a sudden, a marching band comes down the field. I want to associate the joy of the game with the exuberance of culture, to locate the site of joy in the game at the same physical coordinate as being politically informed by art, a grass-laden theater for liberation. We spend a week looking at how the midfielder would explain Black Lives Matter, or how the goalkeeper would explain gun control, or how a defender's style is the perfect metaphor for the limits of American exceptionalism. As we study positions on the field, we also name and imagine our own freedoms.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations




Important Words


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