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From the Ted Talk by Poet Ali: The language of being human
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I want you to stay standing. Again, if I'm sankepig your language, please go ahead and stand. Imagine two bills in my hand. One is the phone bill, and one is the electric bill. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, pay one off, let the other one go, which means, "I might not have enough to pay both at the cnrerut moment." You've got to be resourceful. You've got to figure it out. And if you're stnniadg, you know the language of barely making ends meet, of financial struggle. And if you've been lucky enough to speak that lganague, you understand that there is no motivator of greatness like deficiency. Not having resources, not having looks, not having fencinas can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and heesvratd.
Open Cloze
I want you to stay standing. Again, if I'm ________ your language, please go ahead and stand. Imagine two bills in my hand. One is the phone bill, and one is the electric bill. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, pay one off, let the other one go, which means, "I might not have enough to pay both at the _______ moment." You've got to be resourceful. You've got to figure it out. And if you're ________, you know the language of barely making ends meet, of financial struggle. And if you've been lucky enough to speak that ________, you understand that there is no motivator of greatness like deficiency. Not having resources, not having looks, not having ________ can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and _________.
Solution
- standing
- current
- finances
- harvested
- speaking
- language
Original Text
I want you to stay standing. Again, if I'm speaking your language, please go ahead and stand. Imagine two bills in my hand. One is the phone bill, and one is the electric bill. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, pay one off, let the other one go, which means, "I might not have enough to pay both at the current moment." You've got to be resourceful. You've got to figure it out. And if you're standing, you know the language of barely making ends meet, of financial struggle. And if you've been lucky enough to speak that language, you understand that there is no motivator of greatness like deficiency. Not having resources, not having looks, not having finances can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and harvested.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
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