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From the Ted Talk by Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Hey guys. It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver, because that was, like, I loved it, and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to Olive garedn." And — (Drilling noise) (leuathgr) And it worked really well there. And you know, it had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world wkros can be cagenhd, and it can be changed by me in these small ways. And my risionlhetap to especially human-made objects which someone else said they work like this, well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.

Open Cloze

Hey guys. It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver, because that was, like, I loved it, and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to Olive ______." And — (Drilling noise) (________) And it worked really well there. And you know, it had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world _____ can be _______, and it can be changed by me in these small ways. And my ____________ to especially human-made objects which someone else said they work like this, well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.

Solution

  1. relationship
  2. laughter
  3. changed
  4. works
  5. garden

Original Text

Hey guys. It's funny, someone just mentioned MacGyver, because that was, like, I loved it, and when I was seven, I taped a fork to a drill and I was like, "Hey, Mom, I'm going to Olive Garden." And — (Drilling noise) (Laughter) And it worked really well there. And you know, it had a profound effect on me. It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world works can be changed, and it can be changed by me in these small ways. And my relationship to especially human-made objects which someone else said they work like this, well, I can say they work a different way, a little bit.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
world works 4
piano circuit 3
hula hoop 2
everyday objects 2
photo booth 2
perfect world 2

Important Words

  1. bit
  2. changed
  3. drill
  4. drilling
  5. effect
  6. fork
  7. funny
  8. garden
  9. guys
  10. hey
  11. laughter
  12. loved
  13. macgyver
  14. mentioned
  15. mom
  16. noise
  17. objects
  18. olive
  19. profound
  20. relationship
  21. silly
  22. small
  23. sounds
  24. taped
  25. thought
  26. ways
  27. work
  28. worked
  29. works
  30. world