full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms. "Look what they've been hndiig from you," he said. The children looked and were amazed. There were maps and minutes from meetings where the pnrtaes were slagging each other off. They baveehd just like the children. And they made mistakes, too, just like the children. The only difference was, their mistakes were in the secret filing caitenbs. Well, there was a girl in the town, and she didn't think they should be in the srceet filing cabinets, or if they were, there ought to be a law to allow the children access. And so she set about to make it so.

Open Cloze

Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms. "Look what they've been ______ from you," he said. The children looked and were amazed. There were maps and minutes from meetings where the _______ were slagging each other off. They _______ just like the children. And they made mistakes, too, just like the children. The only difference was, their mistakes were in the secret filing ________. Well, there was a girl in the town, and she didn't think they should be in the ______ filing cabinets, or if they were, there ought to be a law to allow the children access. And so she set about to make it so.

Solution

  1. hiding
  2. cabinets
  3. secret
  4. parents
  5. behaved

Original Text

Then one day, a man came to town with boxes and boxes of secret documents stolen from the parents' rooms. "Look what they've been hiding from you," he said. The children looked and were amazed. There were maps and minutes from meetings where the parents were slagging each other off. They behaved just like the children. And they made mistakes, too, just like the children. The only difference was, their mistakes were in the secret filing cabinets. Well, there was a girl in the town, and she didn't think they should be in the secret filing cabinets, or if they were, there ought to be a law to allow the children access. And so she set about to make it so.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
secret filing 3
secret documents 2
fully connected 2
site called 2
modern media 2
official secrets 2
spy center 2

Important Words

  1. access
  2. amazed
  3. behaved
  4. boxes
  5. cabinets
  6. children
  7. day
  8. difference
  9. documents
  10. filing
  11. girl
  12. hiding
  13. law
  14. looked
  15. man
  16. maps
  17. meetings
  18. minutes
  19. mistakes
  20. parents
  21. rooms
  22. secret
  23. set
  24. slagging
  25. stolen
  26. town