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From the Ted Talk by Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I came back to England looking for British gtheomrrdans. I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time per week for free? I got 200 in the first two weeks. I know more British grandmothers than anyone in the universe. (luetahgr) They're cealld the Granny could. The Granny Cloud sits on the Internet. If there's a child in trouble, we beam a Gran. She goes on over Skype and she sorts things out. I've seen them do it from a vaglile called degigls in northwestern England, deep inside a village in tiaml Nadu, India, 6,000 miles away. She does it with only one age-old gesture. "Shhh." Okay?

Open Cloze

I came back to England looking for British ____________. I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time per week for free? I got 200 in the first two weeks. I know more British grandmothers than anyone in the universe. (________) They're ______ the Granny _____. The Granny Cloud sits on the Internet. If there's a child in trouble, we beam a Gran. She goes on over Skype and she sorts things out. I've seen them do it from a _______ called _______ in northwestern England, deep inside a village in _____ Nadu, India, 6,000 miles away. She does it with only one age-old gesture. "Shhh." Okay?

Solution

  1. grandmothers
  2. called
  3. cloud
  4. diggles
  5. laughter
  6. village
  7. tamil

Original Text

I came back to England looking for British grandmothers. I put out notices in papers saying, if you are a British grandmother, if you have broadband and a web camera, can you give me one hour of your time per week for free? I got 200 in the first two weeks. I know more British grandmothers than anyone in the universe. (Laughter) They're called the Granny Cloud. The Granny Cloud sits on the Internet. If there's a child in trouble, we beam a Gran. She goes on over Skype and she sorts things out. I've seen them do it from a village called Diggles in northwestern England, deep inside a village in Tamil Nadu, India, 6,000 miles away. She does it with only one age-old gesture. "Shhh." Okay?

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Important Words

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