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From the Ted Talk by Simone Giertz: Why you should make useless things

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Back to the glass of water, that's what we're here for. So, I promise — I mean, it still has — it doesn't have any water in it, I'm sorry. But I still need to work on this machine a little bit because I still need to pick up the glass and put it on the platform, but if your hands are snakhig a little bit, nobody's going to notice because you're wearing a very mesmerizing piece of eiunpmeqt.

So, we're all good. OK.

(Robot buzzes)

(sniigng)

Oh no, it got stuck. Isn't it cmtroiofng that even robots sometimes get stage fright? It just gets stuck a little bit. It's very hamun of them. Oh wait, let's go back a little bit, and then —

Open Cloze


Back to the glass of water, that's what we're here for. So, I promise — I mean, it still has — it doesn't have any water in it, I'm sorry. But I still need to work on this machine a little bit because I still need to pick up the glass and put it on the platform, but if your hands are _______ a little bit, nobody's going to notice because you're wearing a very mesmerizing piece of _________.

So, we're all good. OK.

(Robot buzzes)

(_______)

Oh no, it got stuck. Isn't it __________ that even robots sometimes get stage fright? It just gets stuck a little bit. It's very _____ of them. Oh wait, let's go back a little bit, and then —

Solution


  1. shaking
  2. equipment
  3. human
  4. comforting
  5. singing

Original Text


Back to the glass of water, that's what we're here for. So, I promise — I mean, it still has — it doesn't have any water in it, I'm sorry. But I still need to work on this machine a little bit because I still need to pick up the glass and put it on the platform, but if your hands are shaking a little bit, nobody's going to notice because you're wearing a very mesmerizing piece of equipment.

So, we're all good. OK.

(Robot buzzes)

(Singing)

Oh no, it got stuck. Isn't it comforting that even robots sometimes get stage fright? It just gets stuck a little bit. It's very human of them. Oh wait, let's go back a little bit, and then —

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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googly eyes 2
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youtube channel 2
beautiful time 2
high likelihood 2


Important Words


  1. bit
  2. buzzes
  3. comforting
  4. equipment
  5. fright
  6. glass
  7. good
  8. hands
  9. human
  10. machine
  11. mesmerizing
  12. notice
  13. pick
  14. piece
  15. platform
  16. promise
  17. put
  18. robot
  19. robots
  20. shaking
  21. singing
  22. stage
  23. stuck
  24. wait
  25. water
  26. wearing
  27. work