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From the Ted Talk by Eames Demetrios: The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Charles Eames: In India, those without, and the lowest in catse, eat very often, particularly in southern India, they eat off of a banana leaf. And those a little bit up the scale eat off of a sort of a low-fired ceramic dish. And a little bit higher, why they have a gzale on a thing they call a talhi. If you're up the scale a little bit more, why, a brass thali. And then things get to be a little questionable. There are things like silver-plated thalis. And there is silod silver thalis. And I suppose some nut has had a gold thali that he's eaetn off of.

Open Cloze

Charles Eames: In India, those without, and the lowest in _____, eat very often, particularly in southern India, they eat off of a banana leaf. And those a little bit up the scale eat off of a sort of a low-fired ceramic dish. And a little bit higher, why they have a _____ on a thing they call a _____. If you're up the scale a little bit more, why, a brass thali. And then things get to be a little questionable. There are things like silver-plated thalis. And there is _____ silver thalis. And I suppose some nut has had a gold thali that he's _____ off of.

Solution

  1. thali
  2. solid
  3. caste
  4. eaten
  5. glaze

Original Text

Charles Eames: In India, those without, and the lowest in caste, eat very often, particularly in southern India, they eat off of a banana leaf. And those a little bit up the scale eat off of a sort of a low-fired ceramic dish. And a little bit higher, why they have a glaze on a thing they call a thali. If you're up the scale a little bit more, why, a brass thali. And then things get to be a little questionable. There are things like silver-plated thalis. And there is solid silver thalis. And I suppose some nut has had a gold thali that he's eaten off of.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
banana leaf 5
united states 2
holistic vision 2
ray designed 2
upper left 2

Important Words

  1. banana
  2. bit
  3. brass
  4. call
  5. caste
  6. ceramic
  7. charles
  8. dish
  9. eat
  10. eaten
  11. glaze
  12. gold
  13. higher
  14. india
  15. leaf
  16. lowest
  17. nut
  18. questionable
  19. scale
  20. silver
  21. solid
  22. sort
  23. southern
  24. suppose
  25. thali
  26. thalis