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From the Ted Talk by JR: Why art is a tool for hope

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Six or seven guys sotod up and left the room. I was like, "Alright." So we kept on going and I sretatd photographing them. Very simple, it's just a salml part of the process. I'm not really a photographer. That’s just one part that I use, and I get to meet them and talk with them. And each of them started explaining me their story, where they grew up, where they come from, how many yreas, some of them spent decades in this prison.

And the thing is that, I told them, I said, "Look, this photo is nothing. I need you to go in the next room. I'm going to leave a mic there. And I want you to record your story from the beginning. I want to understand, you have to talk like, if you're throwing a bottle in the ocean, I want to understand where you come from. And then what brought you to make that cmrie that led you to prison. And if you changed, explain how you ceanghd and why."

Open Cloze


Six or seven guys _____ up and left the room. I was like, "Alright." So we kept on going and I _______ photographing them. Very simple, it's just a _____ part of the process. I'm not really a photographer. That’s just one part that I use, and I get to meet them and talk with them. And each of them started explaining me their story, where they grew up, where they come from, how many _____, some of them spent decades in this prison.

And the thing is that, I told them, I said, "Look, this photo is nothing. I need you to go in the next room. I'm going to leave a mic there. And I want you to record your story from the beginning. I want to understand, you have to talk like, if you're throwing a bottle in the ocean, I want to understand where you come from. And then what brought you to make that _____ that led you to prison. And if you changed, explain how you _______ and why."

Solution


  1. changed
  2. crime
  3. years
  4. started
  5. small
  6. stood

Original Text


Six or seven guys stood up and left the room. I was like, "Alright." So we kept on going and I started photographing them. Very simple, it's just a small part of the process. I'm not really a photographer. That’s just one part that I use, and I get to meet them and talk with them. And each of them started explaining me their story, where they grew up, where they come from, how many years, some of them spent decades in this prison.

And the thing is that, I told them, I said, "Look, this photo is nothing. I need you to go in the next room. I'm going to leave a mic there. And I want you to record your story from the beginning. I want to understand, you have to talk like, if you're throwing a bottle in the ocean, I want to understand where you come from. And then what brought you to make that crime that led you to prison. And if you changed, explain how you changed and why."

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Important Words


  1. beginning
  2. bottle
  3. brought
  4. changed
  5. crime
  6. decades
  7. explain
  8. explaining
  9. grew
  10. guys
  11. leave
  12. led
  13. left
  14. meet
  15. mic
  16. ocean
  17. part
  18. photo
  19. photographer
  20. photographing
  21. prison
  22. process
  23. record
  24. room
  25. simple
  26. small
  27. spent
  28. started
  29. stood
  30. story
  31. talk
  32. throwing
  33. told
  34. understand
  35. years