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From the Ted Talk by Colin Powell: Kids need structure

Unscramble the Blue Letters

They had exaptetocins for all of the cousins and the eetednxd family of immigrants that lived in the South Bronx, but they had more than just expectations for us. They scutk into our hearts like a dagger a sense of shame: "Don't you smhae this family." Sometimes I would get in trouble, and my parents were coming home, and I was in my room waiting for what's going to happen, and I would sit there saying to myself, "Okay, look, take the belt and hit me, but, God, don't give me that 'shame the family' bit again." It dtvaaetsed me when my mother did that to me.

Open Cloze

They had ____________ for all of the cousins and the ________ family of immigrants that lived in the South Bronx, but they had more than just expectations for us. They _____ into our hearts like a dagger a sense of shame: "Don't you _____ this family." Sometimes I would get in trouble, and my parents were coming home, and I was in my room waiting for what's going to happen, and I would sit there saying to myself, "Okay, look, take the belt and hit me, but, God, don't give me that 'shame the family' bit again." It __________ me when my mother did that to me.

Solution

  1. shame
  2. expectations
  3. extended
  4. devastated
  5. stuck

Original Text

They had expectations for all of the cousins and the extended family of immigrants that lived in the South Bronx, but they had more than just expectations for us. They stuck into our hearts like a dagger a sense of shame: "Don't you shame this family." Sometimes I would get in trouble, and my parents were coming home, and I was in my room waiting for what's going to happen, and I would sit there saying to myself, "Okay, look, take the belt and hit me, but, God, don't give me that 'shame the family' bit again." It devastated me when my mother did that to me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. belt
  2. bit
  3. bronx
  4. coming
  5. cousins
  6. dagger
  7. devastated
  8. expectations
  9. extended
  10. family
  11. give
  12. god
  13. happen
  14. hearts
  15. hit
  16. home
  17. immigrants
  18. lived
  19. mother
  20. parents
  21. room
  22. sense
  23. shame
  24. sit
  25. south
  26. stuck
  27. trouble
  28. waiting