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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world

Unscramble the Blue Letters

DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar wroks about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few mtnohs he was sitting in his three srtoy house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, polpee in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.

Open Cloze

DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar _____ about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few ______ he was sitting in his three _____ house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, ______ in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.

Solution

  1. works
  2. story
  3. people
  4. months

Original Text

DK: Three hundred and sixty-degree view, so my sonar works about as well behind me as it does in front of me. It works around corners. It works through surfaces. Generally, it's kind of a fuzzy three-dimensional geometry. One of my students, who has now become an instructor, when he lost his vision, after a few months he was sitting in his three story house and he realized that he could hear everything going on throughout the house: conversations, people in the kitchen, people in the bathroom, several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. bathroom
  2. conversations
  3. corners
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  8. geometry
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  11. instructor
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  16. people
  17. realized
  18. sitting
  19. sonar
  20. story
  21. students
  22. surfaces
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  24. vision
  25. walls
  26. works