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From the Ted Talk by Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

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Hi. This is my mobile phone. A mobile phone can change your life, and a mobile phone gives you individual freedom. With a mbolie phone, you can shoot a crime against humanity in Syria. With a mobile phone, you can tweet a msasgee and start a protest in Egypt. And with a mobile phone, you can rrcoed a song, load it up to SoundCloud and become famous. All this is possible with your mobile phone.

I'm a child of 1984, and I live in the city of Berlin. Let's go back to that time, to this city. Here you can see how heddnrus of thousands of people stood up and protested for change. This is autumn 1989, and imagine that all those people sniandtg up and protesting for change had a mobile phnoe in their pocket.

Open Cloze


Hi. This is my mobile phone. A mobile phone can change your life, and a mobile phone gives you individual freedom. With a ______ phone, you can shoot a crime against humanity in Syria. With a mobile phone, you can tweet a _______ and start a protest in Egypt. And with a mobile phone, you can ______ a song, load it up to SoundCloud and become famous. All this is possible with your mobile phone.

I'm a child of 1984, and I live in the city of Berlin. Let's go back to that time, to this city. Here you can see how ________ of thousands of people stood up and protested for change. This is autumn 1989, and imagine that all those people ________ up and protesting for change had a mobile _____ in their pocket.

Solution


  1. mobile
  2. standing
  3. message
  4. record
  5. phone
  6. hundreds

Original Text


Hi. This is my mobile phone. A mobile phone can change your life, and a mobile phone gives you individual freedom. With a mobile phone, you can shoot a crime against humanity in Syria. With a mobile phone, you can tweet a message and start a protest in Egypt. And with a mobile phone, you can record a song, load it up to SoundCloud and become famous. All this is possible with your mobile phone.

I'm a child of 1984, and I live in the city of Berlin. Let's go back to that time, to this city. Here you can see how hundreds of thousands of people stood up and protested for change. This is autumn 1989, and imagine that all those people standing up and protesting for change had a mobile phone in their pocket.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
mobile phone 8
phone company 4
data retention 3
people stood 2
internet service 2
state agencies 2
digital age 2


Important Words


  1. autumn
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  6. crime
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  9. freedom
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  11. hundreds
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  29. standing
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  31. stood
  32. syria
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  35. tweet