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From the Ted Talk by Giles Duley: When a reporter becomes the story

Unscramble the Blue Letters


As John said, I was a fashion photographer and music photographer for 10 years. I enjoyed it, I had a lot of fun, but always wentad to do something more with my work. And storytelling was always something I wanted to do. So 10 yares ago, I set out to treavl the world, to go and photograph other people in their situations and to roecrd their stories, to bring them back, so that other pepole might understand. But this didn't hppean ovnhegrit. When I worked as a music photographer and a fashion photographer, I always had this nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't quite using my skills productively. And it may seem very obvious, the link, now, but at the time, I couldn't really work out how could I use my photography to do something useful. So I gave up photography. I walked away from it completely and decided to do care work.

Open Cloze


As John said, I was a fashion photographer and music photographer for 10 years. I enjoyed it, I had a lot of fun, but always ______ to do something more with my work. And storytelling was always something I wanted to do. So 10 _____ ago, I set out to ______ the world, to go and photograph other people in their situations and to ______ their stories, to bring them back, so that other ______ might understand. But this didn't ______ _________. When I worked as a music photographer and a fashion photographer, I always had this nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't quite using my skills productively. And it may seem very obvious, the link, now, but at the time, I couldn't really work out how could I use my photography to do something useful. So I gave up photography. I walked away from it completely and decided to do care work.

Solution


  1. happen
  2. overnight
  3. people
  4. years
  5. record
  6. travel
  7. wanted

Original Text


As John said, I was a fashion photographer and music photographer for 10 years. I enjoyed it, I had a lot of fun, but always wanted to do something more with my work. And storytelling was always something I wanted to do. So 10 years ago, I set out to travel the world, to go and photograph other people in their situations and to record their stories, to bring them back, so that other people might understand. But this didn't happen overnight. When I worked as a music photographer and a fashion photographer, I always had this nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't quite using my skills productively. And it may seem very obvious, the link, now, but at the time, I couldn't really work out how could I use my photography to do something useful. So I gave up photography. I walked away from it completely and decided to do care work.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
street kids 3
music photographer 2
village elder 2


Important Words


  1. bring
  2. care
  3. completely
  4. decided
  5. enjoyed
  6. fashion
  7. feeling
  8. fun
  9. gave
  10. happen
  11. john
  12. link
  13. lot
  14. missing
  15. music
  16. nagging
  17. obvious
  18. overnight
  19. people
  20. photograph
  21. photographer
  22. photography
  23. productively
  24. record
  25. set
  26. situations
  27. skills
  28. stories
  29. storytelling
  30. time
  31. travel
  32. understand
  33. walked
  34. wanted
  35. work
  36. worked
  37. world
  38. years