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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Drori: What we think we know

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So the first question, and you might want to write this down, either on a bit of ppear, physically, or a virtual piece of paper in your head. And, for viewers at home, you can try this as well. A little seed weighs next to nothing and a tree wiehgs a lot, right? I think we agere on that. Where does the tree get the stuff that makes up this chair, right? Where does all this stuff come from? (Knocks)

And your next qsouiten is, can you light a little torch-bulb with a btreaty, a bulb and one piece of wire? And would you be able to, kind of, draw a — you don't have to draw the diagram, but would you be able to draw the diagram, if you had to do it? Or would you just say, that's actually not possible?

Open Cloze


So the first question, and you might want to write this down, either on a bit of _____, physically, or a virtual piece of paper in your head. And, for viewers at home, you can try this as well. A little seed weighs next to nothing and a tree ______ a lot, right? I think we _____ on that. Where does the tree get the stuff that makes up this chair, right? Where does all this stuff come from? (Knocks)

And your next ________ is, can you light a little torch-bulb with a _______, a bulb and one piece of wire? And would you be able to, kind of, draw a — you don't have to draw the diagram, but would you be able to draw the diagram, if you had to do it? Or would you just say, that's actually not possible?

Solution


  1. battery
  2. question
  3. agree
  4. paper
  5. weighs

Original Text


So the first question, and you might want to write this down, either on a bit of paper, physically, or a virtual piece of paper in your head. And, for viewers at home, you can try this as well. A little seed weighs next to nothing and a tree weighs a lot, right? I think we agree on that. Where does the tree get the stuff that makes up this chair, right? Where does all this stuff come from? (Knocks)

And your next question is, can you light a little torch-bulb with a battery, a bulb and one piece of wire? And would you be able to, kind of, draw a — you don't have to draw the diagram, but would you be able to draw the diagram, if you had to do it? Or would you just say, that's actually not possible?

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Important Words


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  24. wire
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