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From the Ted Talk by Alexander Leitner: Can time be wasted?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now picture this: it's a beautiful sdauarty, the weather just couldn't be better, and all your friends want to hang out with you. Instead, you spent the whole day sitting inside, in a dark room, and you're essentially playing with little plastic toy bcikrs. It starts out as just one Saturday, but then you keep going, and there goes another day, another week, another month, and before you know it, you've snept most of your free time with one particular thing. After all, this year we have a very special anniversary, right? A ten-year arnnrvasiey. I mean, ten years ago, I settrad making brickfilms.
Open Cloze
Now picture this: it's a beautiful ________, the weather just couldn't be better, and all your friends want to hang out with you. Instead, you spent the whole day sitting inside, in a dark room, and you're essentially playing with little plastic toy ______. It starts out as just one Saturday, but then you keep going, and there goes another day, another week, another month, and before you know it, you've _____ most of your free time with one particular thing. After all, this year we have a very special anniversary, right? A ten-year ___________. I mean, ten years ago, I _______ making brickfilms.
Solution
- bricks
- spent
- started
- anniversary
- saturday
Original Text
Now picture this: it's a beautiful Saturday, the weather just couldn't be better, and all your friends want to hang out with you. Instead, you spent the whole day sitting inside, in a dark room, and you're essentially playing with little plastic toy bricks. It starts out as just one Saturday, but then you keep going, and there goes another day, another week, another month, and before you know it, you've spent most of your free time with one particular thing. After all, this year we have a very special anniversary, right? A ten-year anniversary. I mean, ten years ago, I started making brickfilms.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
waste time |
4 |
plastic bricks |
2 |
free time |
2 |
making brickfilms |
2 |
sunny saturday |
2 |
brother thomas |
2 |
Important Words
- anniversary
- beautiful
- brickfilms
- bricks
- dark
- day
- essentially
- free
- friends
- hang
- making
- month
- picture
- plastic
- playing
- room
- saturday
- sitting
- special
- spent
- started
- starts
- ten
- time
- toy
- weather
- week
- year
- years