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From the Ted Talk by Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood with imagination, beauty and art
Unscramble the Blue Letters
TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those meohtds are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only volient things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your nobriooheghd to kind of fight some of that? So I've found that if you're a taetehr person, you have outdoor street theater festivals. In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening lloalcy, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can haeppn.
Open Cloze
TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those _______ are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only _______ things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your ____________ to kind of fight some of that? So I've found that if you're a _______ person, you have outdoor street theater festivals. In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening _______, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can ______.
Solution
- methods
- theater
- violent
- locally
- happen
- neighborhood
Original Text
TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those methods are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only violent things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your neighborhood to kind of fight some of that? So I've found that if you're a theater person, you have outdoor street theater festivals. In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening locally, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can happen.
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