full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This is five-year-old pararahsum. He was begging by a bus stop a few years ago, got picked up and is now in an orphanage, has been coming to school for the last four and a half months. He's in kindergarten. He has learned how to speak English. We have a mdeol by which kids can speak English and understand egslinh in three month's time. He can tell you stories in English of the thirsty crow, of the crocodile and of the giraffe. And if you ask him what he lkeis to do he will say, "I like sinelepg. I like eating. I like playing." And if you ask him what he wants to do, he will say, "I want to horsing." Now, "horsing" is going for a horse ride. So, Parusharam comes to my office every day. He comes for a tummy rub, because he believes that will give me luck. (Laughter)
Open Cloze
This is five-year-old __________. He was begging by a bus stop a few years ago, got picked up and is now in an orphanage, has been coming to school for the last four and a half months. He's in kindergarten. He has learned how to speak English. We have a _____ by which kids can speak English and understand _______ in three month's time. He can tell you stories in English of the thirsty crow, of the crocodile and of the giraffe. And if you ask him what he _____ to do he will say, "I like ________. I like eating. I like playing." And if you ask him what he wants to do, he will say, "I want to horsing." Now, "horsing" is going for a horse ride. So, Parusharam comes to my office every day. He comes for a tummy rub, because he believes that will give me luck. (Laughter)
Solution
- likes
- parusharam
- english
- model
- sleeping
Original Text
This is five-year-old Parusharam. He was begging by a bus stop a few years ago, got picked up and is now in an orphanage, has been coming to school for the last four and a half months. He's in kindergarten. He has learned how to speak English. We have a model by which kids can speak English and understand English in three month's time. He can tell you stories in English of the thirsty crow, of the crocodile and of the giraffe. And if you ask him what he likes to do he will say, "I like sleeping. I like eating. I like playing." And if you ask him what he wants to do, he will say, "I want to horsing." Now, "horsing" is going for a horse ride. So, Parusharam comes to my office every day. He comes for a tummy rub, because he believes that will give me luck. (Laughter)
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
started parikrma |
4 |
speak english |
3 |
million children |
2 |
academic year |
2 |
english medium |
2 |
medium schools |
2 |
spoken english |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
collocation |
frequency |
english medium schools |
2 |
Important Words
- begging
- believes
- bus
- coming
- crocodile
- crow
- day
- eating
- english
- giraffe
- give
- horse
- horsing
- kids
- kindergarten
- laughter
- learned
- likes
- luck
- model
- months
- office
- orphanage
- parusharam
- picked
- playing
- ride
- rub
- school
- sleeping
- speak
- stop
- stories
- thirsty
- time
- tummy
- understand
- years