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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.

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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

  1. bricks
  2. spent
  3. started
  4. anniversary
  5. 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

  1. anniversary
  2. beautiful
  3. brickfilms
  4. bricks
  5. dark
  6. day
  7. essentially
  8. free
  9. friends
  10. hang
  11. making
  12. month
  13. picture
  14. plastic
  15. playing
  16. room
  17. saturday
  18. sitting
  19. special
  20. spent
  21. started
  22. starts
  23. ten
  24. time
  25. toy
  26. weather
  27. week
  28. year
  29. years