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From the Ted Talk by Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about war

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I had to disagree with her wholeheartedly when I first showed up there, because lrtailley in the first four days, I had already run away five teims from this school. They had these big baclk gates that soudnurred the school, and every time they would turn their backs, I would just simply run out of the black gates and take them up on their offer that if we don't want to be there, we can leave at any time. So I just said, "Well, if that's the case, then I'd like to leave." (Laughter) And it never worked. And I kept on getting lost.

Open Cloze

I had to disagree with her wholeheartedly when I first showed up there, because _________ in the first four days, I had already run away five _____ from this school. They had these big _____ gates that __________ the school, and every time they would turn their backs, I would just simply run out of the black gates and take them up on their offer that if we don't want to be there, we can leave at any time. So I just said, "Well, if that's the case, then I'd like to leave." (Laughter) And it never worked. And I kept on getting lost.

Solution

  1. times
  2. black
  3. literally
  4. surrounded

Original Text

I had to disagree with her wholeheartedly when I first showed up there, because literally in the first four days, I had already run away five times from this school. They had these big black gates that surrounded the school, and every time they would turn their backs, I would just simply run out of the black gates and take them up on their offer that if we don't want to be there, we can leave at any time. So I just said, "Well, if that's the case, then I'd like to leave." (Laughter) And it never worked. And I kept on getting lost.

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Important Words

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