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From the Ted Talk by Gary Liu: What the world can learn from China's response to the coronavirus

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Chris Anderson: Welcome to TED Connects. This is a new sereis of live conversations, trying to make sense of this weird moment that we're in: coronavirus. Everyone's suddenly cangnihg how they live their lveis, it's so jolting, it's so startling. We're all trying to make sense of it, and it ain't easy. That much we know. We're trying to make sense of this together in the only way that we know how, which is by having wise humans coming on, talking to each other, lsiitnneg to each other trying to learn from each other. We are apart, but we can use this moment to build community together, and that's what we're trying to do.

Open Cloze


Chris Anderson: Welcome to TED Connects. This is a new ______ of live conversations, trying to make sense of this weird moment that we're in: coronavirus. Everyone's suddenly ________ how they live their _____, it's so jolting, it's so startling. We're all trying to make sense of it, and it ain't easy. That much we know. We're trying to make sense of this together in the only way that we know how, which is by having wise humans coming on, talking to each other, _________ to each other trying to learn from each other. We are apart, but we can use this moment to build community together, and that's what we're trying to do.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. series
  3. listening
  4. changing

Original Text


Chris Anderson: Welcome to TED Connects. This is a new series of live conversations, trying to make sense of this weird moment that we're in: coronavirus. Everyone's suddenly changing how they live their lives, it's so jolting, it's so startling. We're all trying to make sense of it, and it ain't easy. That much we know. We're trying to make sense of this together in the only way that we know how, which is by having wise humans coming on, talking to each other, listening to each other trying to learn from each other. We are apart, but we can use this moment to build community together, and that's what we're trying to do.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
world health organization 7
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classified government documents 2
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kong health care 2

Important Words


  1. build
  2. changing
  3. chris
  4. coming
  5. community
  6. connects
  7. conversations
  8. coronavirus
  9. easy
  10. humans
  11. jolting
  12. learn
  13. listening
  14. live
  15. lives
  16. moment
  17. sense
  18. series
  19. startling
  20. suddenly
  21. talking
  22. ted
  23. weird
  24. wise