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From the Ted Talk by Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So we learned that the hard way. And they taught you that. They taught you what women had to do. We were tugaht that wmeon controlled the behavior of men. How you act, they will act. So you've got to do that, and I tell you all the time. You know, don't play this man down. It upsets me when you may have a husband that maybe he doesn't have as much education under his belt as you have, but still you can't play him down. You've got to keep lifting him up, because you don't want to live with a muose. So you want that man to be a man, and do what he has to do. And anyway, always rbmemeer, he runs on cheap gas.
Open Cloze
So we learned that the hard way. And they taught you that. They taught you what women had to do. We were ______ that _____ controlled the behavior of men. How you act, they will act. So you've got to do that, and I tell you all the time. You know, don't play this man down. It upsets me when you may have a husband that maybe he doesn't have as much education under his belt as you have, but still you can't play him down. You've got to keep lifting him up, because you don't want to live with a _____. So you want that man to be a man, and do what he has to do. And anyway, always ________, he runs on cheap gas.
Solution
- women
- mouse
- remember
- taught
Original Text
So we learned that the hard way. And they taught you that. They taught you what women had to do. We were taught that women controlled the behavior of men. How you act, they will act. So you've got to do that, and I tell you all the time. You know, don't play this man down. It upsets me when you may have a husband that maybe he doesn't have as much education under his belt as you have, but still you can't play him down. You've got to keep lifting him up, because you don't want to live with a mouse. So you want that man to be a man, and do what he has to do. And anyway, always remember, he runs on cheap gas.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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young women |
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thurgood marshall |
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george patton |
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Important Words
- act
- behavior
- belt
- cheap
- controlled
- education
- gas
- hard
- husband
- learned
- lifting
- live
- man
- men
- mouse
- play
- remember
- runs
- taught
- time
- upsets
- women