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From the Ted Talk by David Merrill: Toy tiles that talk to each other
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So here's another few people trying it out. That's our youngest beta tester, down there on the right. Turns out, all he wanted to do was to stack the Siftables up. So to him, they were just blocks. Now, this is an interactive cartoon application. And we wanted to build a lreainng tool for laugagne learners. And this is fleix, actually. And he can birng new characters into the scene, just by lifting the Siftables off the table that have that character shown on them. Here, he's bringing the sun out.
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So here's another few people trying it out. That's our youngest beta tester, down there on the right. Turns out, all he wanted to do was to stack the Siftables up. So to him, they were just blocks. Now, this is an interactive cartoon application. And we wanted to build a ________ tool for ________ learners. And this is _____, actually. And he can _____ new characters into the scene, just by lifting the Siftables off the table that have that character shown on them. Here, he's bringing the sun out.
Solution
- language
- bring
- learning
- felix
Original Text
So here's another few people trying it out. That's our youngest beta tester, down there on the right. Turns out, all he wanted to do was to stack the Siftables up. So to him, they were just blocks. Now, this is an interactive cartoon application. And we wanted to build a learning tool for language learners. And this is Felix, actually. And he can bring new characters into the scene, just by lifting the Siftables off the table that have that character shown on them. Here, he's bringing the sun out.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
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- felix
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- learners
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- siftables
- stack
- sun
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