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From the Ted Talk by Eames Demetrios: The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But what is really cool is that we take our vuaisl environment as ivlbntaiee. And it's not. Other things could have happened. The Japanese could have direcseovd Monterey. And we could have been born 100,000 years ago. And there are a lot of fun things. This is the Museum of the Bench. They have trading cards and all sorts of cool things. And you're kind of trapped in the texture of kmicaryea. The Tahatchabe, the great road building culture. A guy nmead Nobu Naga, the so-called Japanese Columbus. But now I'm going to return you to the real world.

Open Cloze

But what is really cool is that we take our ______ environment as __________. And it's not. Other things could have happened. The Japanese could have __________ Monterey. And we could have been born 100,000 years ago. And there are a lot of fun things. This is the Museum of the Bench. They have trading cards and all sorts of cool things. And you're kind of trapped in the texture of _________. The Tahatchabe, the great road building culture. A guy _____ Nobu Naga, the so-called Japanese Columbus. But now I'm going to return you to the real world.

Solution

  1. inevitable
  2. kymaerica
  3. named
  4. discovered
  5. visual

Original Text

But what is really cool is that we take our visual environment as inevitable. And it's not. Other things could have happened. The Japanese could have discovered Monterey. And we could have been born 100,000 years ago. And there are a lot of fun things. This is the Museum of the Bench. They have trading cards and all sorts of cool things. And you're kind of trapped in the texture of Kymaerica. The Tahatchabe, the great road building culture. A guy named Nobu Naga, the so-called Japanese Columbus. But now I'm going to return you to the real world.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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banana leaf 5
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Important Words

  1. bench
  2. born
  3. building
  4. cards
  5. columbus
  6. cool
  7. culture
  8. discovered
  9. environment
  10. fun
  11. great
  12. guy
  13. happened
  14. inevitable
  15. japanese
  16. kind
  17. kymaerica
  18. lot
  19. monterey
  20. museum
  21. naga
  22. named
  23. nobu
  24. real
  25. return
  26. road
  27. sorts
  28. tahatchabe
  29. texture
  30. trading
  31. trapped
  32. visual
  33. world
  34. years