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From the Ted Talk by Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo

Unscramble the Blue Letters


All right, so let's take four subjects that obviously go together: big data, tattoos, immortality and the Greeks. Right?

Now, the issue about tattoos is that, without a word, tattoos really do suhot. [Beautiful] [Intriguing] So you don't have to say a lot. [Allegiance] [Very intimate] [Serious mistakes] (Laughter) And tattoos tell you a lot of stories. If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos? A few, but not most. What happens if Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell ponhes, GPS, fquuorasre, Yelp, Travel Advisor, all these things you deal with every day turn out to be electronic tattoos? And what if they pdvrioe as much ionromiftan about who and what you are as any tttaoo ever would?

Open Cloze


All right, so let's take four subjects that obviously go together: big data, tattoos, immortality and the Greeks. Right?

Now, the issue about tattoos is that, without a word, tattoos really do _____. [Beautiful] [Intriguing] So you don't have to say a lot. [Allegiance] [Very intimate] [Serious mistakes] (Laughter) And tattoos tell you a lot of stories. If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos? A few, but not most. What happens if Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell ______, GPS, __________, Yelp, Travel Advisor, all these things you deal with every day turn out to be electronic tattoos? And what if they _______ as much ___________ about who and what you are as any ______ ever would?

Solution


  1. shout
  2. tattoo
  3. information
  4. phones
  5. foursquare
  6. provide

Original Text


All right, so let's take four subjects that obviously go together: big data, tattoos, immortality and the Greeks. Right?

Now, the issue about tattoos is that, without a word, tattoos really do shout. [Beautiful] [Intriguing] So you don't have to say a lot. [Allegiance] [Very intimate] [Serious mistakes] (Laughter) And tattoos tell you a lot of stories. If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos? A few, but not most. What happens if Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell phones, GPS, Foursquare, Yelp, Travel Advisor, all these things you deal with every day turn out to be electronic tattoos? And what if they provide as much information about who and what you are as any tattoo ever would?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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electronic tattoos 3
lesson number 2
golden apple 2


Important Words


  1. advisor
  2. allegiance
  3. beautiful
  4. big
  5. cell
  6. data
  7. day
  8. deal
  9. electronic
  10. facebook
  11. foursquare
  12. google
  13. gps
  14. greeks
  15. immortality
  16. indiscreet
  17. information
  18. intimate
  19. intriguing
  20. issue
  21. laughter
  22. linkedin
  23. lot
  24. mistakes
  25. phones
  26. provide
  27. question
  28. shout
  29. stories
  30. subjects
  31. tattoo
  32. tattoos
  33. travel
  34. turn
  35. twitter
  36. word
  37. yelp