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From the Ted Talk by Angela Patton: A father-daughter dance ... in prison

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, 16 inmates and 18 girls were invited. The girls were dressed in their sanduy best, and the fathers traded in their yellow and blue jumpsuits for shirts and ties. They hugged. They shared a full catered meal of chicken and fish. They lhguead together. It was beautiful. The fathers and dgahutres even experienced an opportunity to have a physical connection, something that a lot of them didn't even have for a while. faehrts were in a space where they were able to make their daughter's plate, and pull out her ciahr and extend his hand for a dance. Even the gruads cried.

Open Cloze

So, 16 inmates and 18 girls were invited. The girls were dressed in their ______ best, and the fathers traded in their yellow and blue jumpsuits for shirts and ties. They hugged. They shared a full catered meal of chicken and fish. They _______ together. It was beautiful. The fathers and _________ even experienced an opportunity to have a physical connection, something that a lot of them didn't even have for a while. _______ were in a space where they were able to make their daughter's plate, and pull out her _____ and extend his hand for a dance. Even the ______ cried.

Solution

  1. laughed
  2. sunday
  3. daughters
  4. guards
  5. chair
  6. fathers

Original Text

So, 16 inmates and 18 girls were invited. The girls were dressed in their Sunday best, and the fathers traded in their yellow and blue jumpsuits for shirts and ties. They hugged. They shared a full catered meal of chicken and fish. They laughed together. It was beautiful. The fathers and daughters even experienced an opportunity to have a physical connection, something that a lot of them didn't even have for a while. Fathers were in a space where they were able to make their daughter's plate, and pull out her chair and extend his hand for a dance. Even the guards cried.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. beautiful
  2. blue
  3. catered
  4. chair
  5. chicken
  6. connection
  7. cried
  8. dance
  9. daughters
  10. dressed
  11. experienced
  12. extend
  13. fathers
  14. fish
  15. full
  16. girls
  17. guards
  18. hand
  19. hugged
  20. inmates
  21. invited
  22. jumpsuits
  23. laughed
  24. lot
  25. meal
  26. opportunity
  27. physical
  28. plate
  29. pull
  30. shared
  31. shirts
  32. space
  33. sunday
  34. ties
  35. traded
  36. yellow