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From the Ted Talk by Philip Rosedale: Life in Second Life

Unscramble the Blue Letters

PR: If you count, yeah, cities. So — but I did — and I didn't do — I think I didn't do as well in school as I could have. I think you're right. I wasn't, like, an oessbsed — you know, get A's kind of guy. I was going to say, I had a great social epnreeicxe when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied pciyshs with, and I was very competitive with them, so then I started to get A's. But you're right: I wasn't an A student.

Open Cloze

PR: If you count, yeah, cities. So — but I did — and I didn't do — I think I didn't do as well in school as I could have. I think you're right. I wasn't, like, an ________ — you know, get A's kind of guy. I was going to say, I had a great social __________ when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied _______ with, and I was very competitive with them, so then I started to get A's. But you're right: I wasn't an A student.

Solution

  1. physics
  2. obsessed
  3. experience

Original Text

PR: If you count, yeah, cities. So — but I did — and I didn't do — I think I didn't do as well in school as I could have. I think you're right. I wasn't, like, an obsessed — you know, get A's kind of guy. I was going to say, I had a great social experience when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied physics with, and I was very competitive with them, so then I started to get A's. But you're right: I wasn't an A student.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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virtual world 9
virtual worlds 8
experience information 3
space exploration 2
united states 2
virtual space 2
life today 2
consume information 2
human beings 2
social creatures 2
digital cameras 2
grand scheme 2
real world 2
studied physics 2

Important Words

  1. cities
  2. college
  3. competitive
  4. count
  5. experience
  6. fraternal
  7. great
  8. guy
  9. guys
  10. kind
  11. met
  12. obsessed
  13. physics
  14. school
  15. social
  16. started
  17. student
  18. studied
  19. yeah