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From the Ted Talk by Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Getting a college edaioctun is a 20-year iseentmvnt. When you're growing up poor, you're not accustomed to tnnikhig that far ahead. Instead, you're thinking about where you're going to get your next meal and how your family is going to pay rent that month. Besides, my parents and my friends' parents seemed to be doing just fine driving taxis and working as janitors. It wasn't until I was a teenager when I raeliezd I didn't want to do those things. By then, I was two-thirds of the way through my education, and it was almost too late to turn things around.
Open Cloze
Getting a college _________ is a 20-year __________. When you're growing up poor, you're not accustomed to ________ that far ahead. Instead, you're thinking about where you're going to get your next meal and how your family is going to pay rent that month. Besides, my parents and my friends' parents seemed to be doing just fine driving taxis and working as janitors. It wasn't until I was a teenager when I ________ I didn't want to do those things. By then, I was two-thirds of the way through my education, and it was almost too late to turn things around.
Solution
- investment
- thinking
- realized
- education
Original Text
Getting a college education is a 20-year investment. When you're growing up poor, you're not accustomed to thinking that far ahead. Instead, you're thinking about where you're going to get your next meal and how your family is going to pay rent that month. Besides, my parents and my friends' parents seemed to be doing just fine driving taxis and working as janitors. It wasn't until I was a teenager when I realized I didn't want to do those things. By then, I was two-thirds of the way through my education, and it was almost too late to turn things around.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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summer school |
4 |
summer learning |
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learning loss |
3 |
school year |
3 |
single mother |
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government aid |
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high school |
2 |
good chance |
2 |
public education |
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education system |
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frequency |
summer learning loss |
3 |
public education system |
2 |
Important Words
- accustomed
- college
- driving
- education
- family
- fine
- growing
- investment
- janitors
- late
- meal
- month
- parents
- pay
- poor
- realized
- rent
- taxis
- teenager
- thinking
- turn
- working