full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Kitra Cahana: A glimpse of life on the road
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. aodictidn is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill, and anyone who has lived on the streets can astett to the exhaustive list of laws that criminalize homeless escitnxee. Who here knows that in many cities across the utnied States it is now ilgleal to sit on the sidewalk, to wrap oneself in a blanket, to sleep in your own car, to ofefr food to a stranger? I know about these laws because I've watched as friends and other travelers were hauled off to jail or received citations for comitinmtg these so-called crimes.
Open Cloze
But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. _________ is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill, and anyone who has lived on the streets can ______ to the exhaustive list of laws that criminalize homeless _________. Who here knows that in many cities across the ______ States it is now _______ to sit on the sidewalk, to wrap oneself in a blanket, to sleep in your own car, to _____ food to a stranger? I know about these laws because I've watched as friends and other travelers were hauled off to jail or received citations for __________ these so-called crimes.
Solution
- addiction
- united
- committing
- attest
- illegal
- offer
- existence
Original Text
But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. Addiction is real, the elements are real, freight trains maim and kill, and anyone who has lived on the streets can attest to the exhaustive list of laws that criminalize homeless existence. Who here knows that in many cities across the United States it is now illegal to sit on the sidewalk, to wrap oneself in a blanket, to sleep in your own car, to offer food to a stranger? I know about these laws because I've watched as friends and other travelers were hauled off to jail or received citations for committing these so-called crimes.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
united states |
3 |
american dream |
2 |
Important Words
- addiction
- aspects
- attest
- blanket
- car
- citations
- cities
- committing
- crimes
- criminalize
- demons
- elements
- exhaustive
- existence
- food
- freight
- friends
- hauled
- homeless
- idyllic
- illegal
- jail
- kill
- laws
- life
- list
- lived
- loses
- maim
- offer
- oneself
- real
- received
- road
- sidewalk
- sit
- sleep
- states
- stranger
- streets
- trains
- travelers
- united
- watched
- wrap