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From the Ted Talk by Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And what'd we do then? Well, I met nice people like you, and they inetvid us to the hmonptas. So I call this "from South Bronx to Southampton." And we started putting in rfoos that look like this, and we came in from dsiuttete neighborhoods to start building landscape like this, wow! People noticed. And so we got invited back this past sumemr, and we actually mvoed into the Hamptons, payed 3,500 dollars a week for a house, and we learned how to surf. And when you can do stuff like this -- These are my kids putting in this technology, and when you can build a roof that looks like that on a house that looks like that with sedum that looks like this, this is the new green graffiti.

Open Cloze

And what'd we do then? Well, I met nice people like you, and they _______ us to the ________. So I call this "from South Bronx to Southampton." And we started putting in _____ that look like this, and we came in from _________ neighborhoods to start building landscape like this, wow! People noticed. And so we got invited back this past ______, and we actually _____ into the Hamptons, payed 3,500 dollars a week for a house, and we learned how to surf. And when you can do stuff like this -- These are my kids putting in this technology, and when you can build a roof that looks like that on a house that looks like that with sedum that looks like this, this is the new green graffiti.

Solution

  1. summer
  2. moved
  3. destitute
  4. invited
  5. hamptons
  6. roofs

Original Text

And what'd we do then? Well, I met nice people like you, and they invited us to the Hamptons. So I call this "from South Bronx to Southampton." And we started putting in roofs that look like this, and we came in from destitute neighborhoods to start building landscape like this, wow! People noticed. And so we got invited back this past summer, and we actually moved into the Hamptons, payed 3,500 dollars a week for a house, and we learned how to surf. And when you can do stuff like this -- These are my kids putting in this technology, and when you can build a roof that looks like that on a house that looks like that with sedum that looks like this, this is the new green graffiti.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
south bronx 4
york city 4
borough president 3
poorest congressional 3
congressional district 3
bronx borough 3
triple bottom 3
living wage 3
edible wall 2
people noticed 2
green graffiti 2
true triple 2
state senator 2
green bronx 2
bronx machine 2
brook park 2
big kids 2
bronx county 2
percent attendance 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
poorest congressional district 3
bronx borough president 2
true triple bottom 2
green bronx machine 2

Important Words

  1. bronx
  2. build
  3. building
  4. call
  5. destitute
  6. dollars
  7. graffiti
  8. green
  9. hamptons
  10. house
  11. invited
  12. kids
  13. landscape
  14. learned
  15. met
  16. moved
  17. neighborhoods
  18. nice
  19. noticed
  20. payed
  21. people
  22. putting
  23. roof
  24. roofs
  25. sedum
  26. south
  27. southampton
  28. start
  29. started
  30. stuff
  31. summer
  32. surf
  33. technology
  34. week