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From the Ted Talk by Deepa Narayan: 7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them

Unscramble the Blue Letters

DN: Very dssepeerd. It was shocking for me, and that's why I couldn't stop, because I had no pnlas to do a stduy and no plans to write a book. I'd written 17 books before, and I thought, "I'm done," but when I went to St. Stephen's College and I heard, at most etlie colleges you well know from Delhi, and the young women and the men, what they said about what it meant to them to be a woman and man sounded not like me but like my mother's generation. So then I went to another college and another college. The thing that was striking to me is that each woman felt she was alone, that she hides her fear and hedis her behavior, because she thinks it's a personal fault. It's not a psnaerol fault, it's training, and I think that's the biggest revelation is that, if we stop ptdnerenig, then the world changes.

Open Cloze

DN: Very _________. It was shocking for me, and that's why I couldn't stop, because I had no _____ to do a _____ and no plans to write a book. I'd written 17 books before, and I thought, "I'm done," but when I went to St. Stephen's College and I heard, at most _____ colleges you well know from Delhi, and the young women and the men, what they said about what it meant to them to be a woman and man sounded not like me but like my mother's generation. So then I went to another college and another college. The thing that was striking to me is that each woman felt she was alone, that she hides her fear and _____ her behavior, because she thinks it's a personal fault. It's not a ________ fault, it's training, and I think that's the biggest revelation is that, if we stop __________, then the world changes.

Solution

  1. hides
  2. depressed
  3. elite
  4. plans
  5. study
  6. pretending
  7. personal

Original Text

DN: Very depressed. It was shocking for me, and that's why I couldn't stop, because I had no plans to do a study and no plans to write a book. I'd written 17 books before, and I thought, "I'm done," but when I went to St. Stephen's College and I heard, at most elite colleges you well know from Delhi, and the young women and the men, what they said about what it meant to them to be a woman and man sounded not like me but like my mother's generation. So then I went to another college and another college. The thing that was striking to me is that each woman felt she was alone, that she hides her fear and hides her behavior, because she thinks it's a personal fault. It's not a personal fault, it's training, and I think that's the biggest revelation is that, if we stop pretending, then the world changes.

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