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From the Ted Talk by Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Let me tell you something, people. This is a beautiful moment. Black field, brown feild, txioc waste field, battlefield -- we're proving in the Bronx that you can grow anywhere, on cement. And we take orders for flowers. I'm putting the bake sale to shame. We take oedrrs now. I'm booking for the spring. And these were all grown from seeds. We're learning everything. And again, when you can take kids from backgrounds as dreisve as this to do something as special as this, we're really caniretg a moment.

Open Cloze

Let me tell you something, people. This is a beautiful moment. Black field, brown _____, _____ waste field, battlefield -- we're proving in the Bronx that you can grow anywhere, on cement. And we take orders for flowers. I'm putting the bake sale to shame. We take ______ now. I'm booking for the spring. And these were all grown from seeds. We're learning everything. And again, when you can take kids from backgrounds as _______ as this to do something as special as this, we're really ________ a moment.

Solution

  1. field
  2. diverse
  3. orders
  4. creating
  5. toxic

Original Text

Let me tell you something, people. This is a beautiful moment. Black field, brown field, toxic waste field, battlefield -- we're proving in the Bronx that you can grow anywhere, on cement. And we take orders for flowers. I'm putting the bake sale to shame. We take orders now. I'm booking for the spring. And these were all grown from seeds. We're learning everything. And again, when you can take kids from backgrounds as diverse as this to do something as special as this, we're really creating a moment.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
south bronx 4
york city 4
borough president 3
poorest congressional 3
congressional district 3
bronx borough 3
triple bottom 3
living wage 3
edible wall 2
people noticed 2
green graffiti 2
true triple 2
state senator 2
green bronx 2
bronx machine 2
brook park 2
big kids 2
bronx county 2
percent attendance 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
poorest congressional district 3
bronx borough president 2
true triple bottom 2
green bronx machine 2

Important Words

  1. backgrounds
  2. bake
  3. battlefield
  4. beautiful
  5. black
  6. booking
  7. bronx
  8. brown
  9. cement
  10. creating
  11. diverse
  12. field
  13. flowers
  14. grow
  15. grown
  16. kids
  17. learning
  18. moment
  19. orders
  20. people
  21. proving
  22. putting
  23. sale
  24. seeds
  25. shame
  26. special
  27. spring
  28. toxic
  29. waste