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From the Ted Talk by Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible aarry of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure enyejomnt. Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather, and even with the weather, we don't think of all the many nuances of waheter. We just think of "good weather" and "bad weather." This day, right now, has unique weather, maybe a kind that will never exactly, in that form, come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.
Open Cloze
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible _____ of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure _________. Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather, and even with the weather, we don't think of all the many nuances of _______. We just think of "good weather" and "bad weather." This day, right now, has unique weather, maybe a kind that will never exactly, in that form, come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.
Solution
- array
- weather
- enjoyment
Original Text
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure enjoyment. Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment, with clouds coming and going. We just think of the weather, and even with the weather, we don't think of all the many nuances of weather. We just think of "good weather" and "bad weather." This day, right now, has unique weather, maybe a kind that will never exactly, in that form, come again. The formation of clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes. Look at that.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
- array
- clouds
- colors
- coming
- constantly
- day
- enjoyment
- eyes
- form
- formation
- incredible
- kind
- moment
- note
- nuances
- offered
- open
- opening
- pure
- rarely
- sky
- surprised
- unique
- weather