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From the Ted Talk by Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And so I try to do this in my books. And here's just one example. This is the first book that I ever made. It's called "Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem." And it's about a kid who gets a blue whale as a pet but it's a punishment and it runis his life. So it's delivered overnight by FedUp. (Laughter) And he has to take it to shcool with him. He lives in San Francisco — very tguoh city to own a blue whale in. A lot of hills, real etstae is at a premium. This market's crazy, everybody. But underneath the jkacet is this case, and that's the cover underneath the book, the jacket, and there's an ad that oerffs a free 30-day risk-free tairl for a blue whale. And you can just send in a self-addressed stmeapd envelope and we'll send you a whale. And kids do write in.

Open Cloze


And so I try to do this in my books. And here's just one example. This is the first book that I ever made. It's called "Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem." And it's about a kid who gets a blue whale as a pet but it's a punishment and it _____ his life. So it's delivered overnight by FedUp. (Laughter) And he has to take it to ______ with him. He lives in San Francisco — very _____ city to own a blue whale in. A lot of hills, real ______ is at a premium. This market's crazy, everybody. But underneath the ______ is this case, and that's the cover underneath the book, the jacket, and there's an ad that ______ a free 30-day risk-free _____ for a blue whale. And you can just send in a self-addressed _______ envelope and we'll send you a whale. And kids do write in.

Solution


  1. school
  2. offers
  3. estate
  4. tough
  5. jacket
  6. trial
  7. stamped
  8. ruins

Original Text


And so I try to do this in my books. And here's just one example. This is the first book that I ever made. It's called "Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem." And it's about a kid who gets a blue whale as a pet but it's a punishment and it ruins his life. So it's delivered overnight by FedUp. (Laughter) And he has to take it to school with him. He lives in San Francisco — very tough city to own a blue whale in. A lot of hills, real estate is at a premium. This market's crazy, everybody. But underneath the jacket is this case, and that's the cover underneath the book, the jacket, and there's an ad that offers a free 30-day risk-free trial for a blue whale. And you can just send in a self-addressed stamped envelope and we'll send you a whale. And kids do write in.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
blue whale 5
secret door 3
venn diagram 2
summer camp 2
magical land 2
secret doors 2
real world 2


Important Words


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  14. francisco
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  18. kid
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  20. laughter
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  30. real
  31. ruins
  32. san
  33. school
  34. send
  35. stamped
  36. tough
  37. trial
  38. twitters
  39. whale
  40. write