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From the Ted Talk by Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course

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So, this is my gnrfahadetr, Salman Schocken, who was born into a poor and uneducated family with six children to feed, and when he was 14 years old, he was forced to drop out of school in order to help put bread on the table. He never went back to school. Instead, he went on to build a glittering empire of department seotrs. Salman was the consummate perfectionist, and every one of his stores was a jewel of Bauhaus aehtricructe. He was also the ultimate self-learner, and like everything else, he did it in grand style. He surrounded himself with an entourage of young, unownkn scholars like Martin buebr and Shai Agnon and Franz Kafka, and he paid each one of them a monthly salary so that they could wtire in peace.

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So, this is my ___________, Salman Schocken, who was born into a poor and uneducated family with six children to feed, and when he was 14 years old, he was forced to drop out of school in order to help put bread on the table. He never went back to school. Instead, he went on to build a glittering empire of department ______. Salman was the consummate perfectionist, and every one of his stores was a jewel of Bauhaus ____________. He was also the ultimate self-learner, and like everything else, he did it in grand style. He surrounded himself with an entourage of young, _______ scholars like Martin _____ and Shai Agnon and Franz Kafka, and he paid each one of them a monthly salary so that they could _____ in peace.

Solution

  1. write
  2. stores
  3. unknown
  4. buber
  5. grandfather
  6. architecture

Original Text

So, this is my grandfather, Salman Schocken, who was born into a poor and uneducated family with six children to feed, and when he was 14 years old, he was forced to drop out of school in order to help put bread on the table. He never went back to school. Instead, he went on to build a glittering empire of department stores. Salman was the consummate perfectionist, and every one of his stores was a jewel of Bauhaus architecture. He was also the ultimate self-learner, and like everything else, he did it in grand style. He surrounded himself with an entourage of young, unknown scholars like Martin Buber and Shai Agnon and Franz Kafka, and he paid each one of them a monthly salary so that they could write in peace.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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department stores 2
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Important Words

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  2. architecture
  3. bauhaus
  4. born
  5. bread
  6. buber
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  17. franz
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  20. grandfather
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  22. kafka
  23. martin
  24. monthly
  25. order
  26. paid
  27. peace
  28. perfectionist
  29. poor
  30. put
  31. salary
  32. salman
  33. schocken
  34. scholars
  35. school
  36. shai
  37. stores
  38. style
  39. surrounded
  40. table
  41. ultimate
  42. uneducated
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  44. write
  45. years
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