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From the Ted Talk by Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So I couchsurf a lot. I also crowdsurf a lot. I maintain csfnrouchiug and cwinofudrsrg are basically the same thing. You're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other. I once asked an opening band of mine if they waentd to go out into the cowrd and pass the hat to get some extra money, something that I did a lot. And as usual, the band was psyched, but there was this one guy in the band who told me he just couldn't bring himself to go out there. It felt too much like begging to sntad there with the hat. And I recognized his fear of "Is this fair?" and "Get a job."
Open Cloze
So I couchsurf a lot. I also crowdsurf a lot. I maintain ____________ and ____________ are basically the same thing. You're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other. I once asked an opening band of mine if they ______ to go out into the _____ and pass the hat to get some extra money, something that I did a lot. And as usual, the band was psyched, but there was this one guy in the band who told me he just couldn't bring himself to go out there. It felt too much like begging to _____ there with the hat. And I recognized his fear of "Is this fair?" and "Get a job."
Solution
- crowdsurfing
- stand
- crowd
- couchsurfing
- wanted
Original Text
So I couchsurf a lot. I also crowdsurf a lot. I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing. You're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other. I once asked an opening band of mine if they wanted to go out into the crowd and pass the hat to get some extra money, something that I did a lot. And as usual, the band was psyched, but there was this one guy in the band who told me he just couldn't bring himself to go out there. It felt too much like begging to stand there with the hat. And I recognized his fear of "Is this fair?" and "Get a job."
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
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