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From the Ted Talk by Jay Walker: My library of human imagination

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So hopefully tomorrow I’ll show one or two more objects from the stage, but for today I just waetnd to say thank you for all the people that came and talked to us about it. And Eileen and I are thrilled to open our home and share it with the TED community. (alsauppe) TED is all about pntaters in the clouds. It’s all about ctnncioones. It’s all about seeing things that everybody else has seen before but thinking about them in ways that nobody has thought of them before. And that’s really what discovery and imagination is all about.

Open Cloze

So hopefully tomorrow I’ll show one or two more objects from the stage, but for today I just ______ to say thank you for all the people that came and talked to us about it. And Eileen and I are thrilled to open our home and share it with the TED community. (________) TED is all about ________ in the clouds. It’s all about ___________. It’s all about seeing things that everybody else has seen before but thinking about them in ways that nobody has thought of them before. And that’s really what discovery and imagination is all about.

Solution

  1. applause
  2. patterns
  3. wanted
  4. connections

Original Text

So hopefully tomorrow I’ll show one or two more objects from the stage, but for today I just wanted to say thank you for all the people that came and talked to us about it. And Eileen and I are thrilled to open our home and share it with the TED community. (Applause) TED is all about patterns in the clouds. It’s all about connections. It’s all about seeing things that everybody else has seen before but thinking about them in ways that nobody has thought of them before. And that’s really what discovery and imagination is all about.

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