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From the Ted Talk by Niro Sivanathan: The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Imagine you're on a shopping trip. You've been looking for a luxury-line dinnerware set to add to your kiechtn collection. As it tnrus out, your local department store has aenuncond a sale on the very set you've been looking for, so you rush to the store to find a 24-piece set on sale. Eight dinner plates, all in good condition; eight soup and slaad bowls, all in good condition; and eight dresest plates, all in good condition. Now, consider for a moment how much you would be willing to pay for this dinnerware set.

Open Cloze

Imagine you're on a shopping trip. You've been looking for a luxury-line dinnerware set to add to your _______ collection. As it _____ out, your local department store has _________ a sale on the very set you've been looking for, so you rush to the store to find a 24-piece set on sale. Eight dinner plates, all in good condition; eight soup and _____ bowls, all in good condition; and eight _______ plates, all in good condition. Now, consider for a moment how much you would be willing to pay for this dinnerware set.

Solution

  1. salad
  2. dessert
  3. announced
  4. kitchen
  5. turns

Original Text

Imagine you're on a shopping trip. You've been looking for a luxury-line dinnerware set to add to your kitchen collection. As it turns out, your local department store has announced a sale on the very set you've been looking for, so you rush to the store to find a 24-piece set on sale. Eight dinner plates, all in good condition; eight soup and salad bowls, all in good condition; and eight dessert plates, all in good condition. Now, consider for a moment how much you would be willing to pay for this dinnerware set.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. add
  2. announced
  3. bowls
  4. collection
  5. condition
  6. department
  7. dessert
  8. dinner
  9. dinnerware
  10. find
  11. good
  12. imagine
  13. kitchen
  14. local
  15. moment
  16. pay
  17. plates
  18. rush
  19. salad
  20. sale
  21. set
  22. shopping
  23. soup
  24. store
  25. trip
  26. turns