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From the Ted Talk by David Carson: Design and discovery

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I had rteqsueed slides, kind of adamantly, up till the — pretty much, last few days, but was denied access to a sdile projector. (laguther) I actually find them a lot more emotional — (Laughter) — and personal, and the neat thing about a slide projector is you can actually fucos the work, unlike PowerPoint and some other programs. Now, I arege that you have to — yeah, there are certain ccninoessos and, you know, if you use a slide projector, you're not able to have the bad type swing in from the back or the side, or up or down, but maybe that's an O.K. trade-off, to trade that off for a focus. (Laughter) It's a thought. Just a tuhghot. And there's something nice about slides getting stuck. And the thing you really hope for is occasionally they burn up, which we won't see tonight. So.

Open Cloze


I had _________ slides, kind of adamantly, up till the — pretty much, last few days, but was denied access to a _____ projector. (________) I actually find them a lot more emotional — (Laughter) — and personal, and the neat thing about a slide projector is you can actually _____ the work, unlike PowerPoint and some other programs. Now, I _____ that you have to — yeah, there are certain ___________ and, you know, if you use a slide projector, you're not able to have the bad type swing in from the back or the side, or up or down, but maybe that's an O.K. trade-off, to trade that off for a focus. (Laughter) It's a thought. Just a _______. And there's something nice about slides getting stuck. And the thing you really hope for is occasionally they burn up, which we won't see tonight. So.

Solution


  1. requested
  2. concessions
  3. focus
  4. thought
  5. agree
  6. laughter
  7. slide

Original Text


I had requested slides, kind of adamantly, up till the — pretty much, last few days, but was denied access to a slide projector. (Laughter) I actually find them a lot more emotional — (Laughter) — and personal, and the neat thing about a slide projector is you can actually focus the work, unlike PowerPoint and some other programs. Now, I agree that you have to — yeah, there are certain concessions and, you know, if you use a slide projector, you're not able to have the bad type swing in from the back or the side, or up or down, but maybe that's an O.K. trade-off, to trade that off for a focus. (Laughter) It's a thought. Just a thought. And there's something nice about slides getting stuck. And the thing you really hope for is occasionally they burn up, which we won't see tonight. So.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. access
  2. adamantly
  3. agree
  4. bad
  5. burn
  6. concessions
  7. days
  8. denied
  9. emotional
  10. find
  11. focus
  12. hope
  13. kind
  14. laughter
  15. lot
  16. neat
  17. nice
  18. occasionally
  19. personal
  20. powerpoint
  21. pretty
  22. programs
  23. projector
  24. requested
  25. side
  26. slide
  27. slides
  28. stuck
  29. swing
  30. thought
  31. tonight
  32. trade
  33. type
  34. work
  35. yeah