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From the Ted Talk by Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I need to say one thing, and it's so important in, hopefully, the magic that happens and unfolds in the next three months. The lnuch ladies, the lunch cooks of America — I offer myself as their ambassador. I'm not slagging them off. They're doing the best they can do. They're doing their best. But they're doing what they're told, and what they're being told to do is worng. The sstyem is highly run by accountants; there's not enough, or any, food-knowledgeable people in the bsusines. There's a problem: If you're not a food expert, and you've got tight budgets and it's getting tgteihr, then you can't be creative, you can't duck and dive and write different things around things. If you're an accountant, and a box-ticker, the only thing you can do in these circumstances is buy cheaper shit.

Open Cloze

I need to say one thing, and it's so important in, hopefully, the magic that happens and unfolds in the next three months. The _____ ladies, the lunch cooks of America — I offer myself as their ambassador. I'm not slagging them off. They're doing the best they can do. They're doing their best. But they're doing what they're told, and what they're being told to do is _____. The ______ is highly run by accountants; there's not enough, or any, food-knowledgeable people in the ________. There's a problem: If you're not a food expert, and you've got tight budgets and it's getting _______, then you can't be creative, you can't duck and dive and write different things around things. If you're an accountant, and a box-ticker, the only thing you can do in these circumstances is buy cheaper shit.

Solution

  1. wrong
  2. business
  3. tighter
  4. system
  5. lunch

Original Text

I need to say one thing, and it's so important in, hopefully, the magic that happens and unfolds in the next three months. The lunch ladies, the lunch cooks of America — I offer myself as their ambassador. I'm not slagging them off. They're doing the best they can do. They're doing their best. But they're doing what they're told, and what they're being told to do is wrong. The system is highly run by accountants; there's not enough, or any, food-knowledgeable people in the business. There's a problem: If you're not a food expert, and you've got tight budgets and it's getting tighter, then you can't be creative, you can't duck and dive and write different things around things. If you're an accountant, and a box-ticker, the only thing you can do in these circumstances is buy cheaper shit.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
fast food 4
bad health 2
billion dollars 2
west virginia 2
edwards family 2
main street 2
big companies 2
massive problem 2
school food 2
fresh food 2
teach kids 2

Important Words

  1. accountant
  2. ambassador
  3. america
  4. budgets
  5. business
  6. buy
  7. cheaper
  8. circumstances
  9. cooks
  10. creative
  11. dive
  12. duck
  13. expert
  14. food
  15. highly
  16. important
  17. ladies
  18. lunch
  19. magic
  20. months
  21. offer
  22. people
  23. run
  24. shit
  25. slagging
  26. system
  27. tight
  28. tighter
  29. told
  30. unfolds
  31. write
  32. wrong