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From the Ted Talk by Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas: A mother and son united by love and art

Unscramble the Blue Letters

HWT: Sometimes I wonder if the love of looking is genetic, because, like my mother, I've loved photographs since before I can even remember. I think sometimes that — after my mother and her mother — that photography and photographs were my first love. No offense to my father, but that's what you get for calling me a "ham" wherever you go. I remember whenever I'd go to my grandmother's house, she would hide all the photo albums because she was arfaid of me asking, "Well, who is that in that picture?" and "Who are they to you and who are they to me, and how old were you when that picture was taken? How old was I when that picture was taken? And why were they in bcalk and whtie? Was the wlrod in black and white before I was born?"

Open Cloze

HWT: Sometimes I wonder if the love of looking is genetic, because, like my mother, I've loved photographs since before I can even remember. I think sometimes that — after my mother and her mother — that photography and photographs were my first love. No offense to my father, but that's what you get for calling me a "ham" wherever you go. I remember whenever I'd go to my grandmother's house, she would hide all the photo albums because she was ______ of me asking, "Well, who is that in that picture?" and "Who are they to you and who are they to me, and how old were you when that picture was taken? How old was I when that picture was taken? And why were they in _____ and _____? Was the _____ in black and white before I was born?"

Solution

  1. black
  2. white
  3. afraid
  4. world

Original Text

HWT: Sometimes I wonder if the love of looking is genetic, because, like my mother, I've loved photographs since before I can even remember. I think sometimes that — after my mother and her mother — that photography and photographs were my first love. No offense to my father, but that's what you get for calling me a "ham" wherever you go. I remember whenever I'd go to my grandmother's house, she would hide all the photo albums because she was afraid of me asking, "Well, who is that in that picture?" and "Who are they to you and who are they to me, and how old were you when that picture was taken? How old was I when that picture was taken? And why were they in black and white? Was the world in black and white before I was born?"

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
black photographers 4
love overrules 2
north philadelphia 2
family album 2
roy decarava 2
house full 2
puppet strings 2
book led 2

Important Words

  1. afraid
  2. albums
  3. black
  4. born
  5. calling
  6. father
  7. genetic
  8. hide
  9. house
  10. love
  11. loved
  12. mother
  13. offense
  14. photo
  15. photographs
  16. photography
  17. picture
  18. remember
  19. white
  20. world