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From the Ted Talk by Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and the power of a single decision
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Think about those cotton fields and those rice plantations and those tobacco fields and those sugar plantations. On those sugar plantations, and on those tobacco fdleis, and on those rice plantations, and on those cotton fields were opera singers, jazz msiuaincs, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists. And how do we know that? We know that because that is what they and their children and now their grandchildren and even great-grandchildren have often csoehn to become once they had the ccnahe to choose for themselves what they would do with their God-given talents.
Open Cloze
Think about those cotton fields and those rice plantations and those tobacco fields and those sugar plantations. On those sugar plantations, and on those tobacco ______, and on those rice plantations, and on those cotton fields were opera singers, jazz _________, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists. And how do we know that? We know that because that is what they and their children and now their grandchildren and even great-grandchildren have often ______ to become once they had the ______ to choose for themselves what they would do with their God-given talents.
Solution
- chance
- chosen
- musicians
- fields
Original Text
Think about those cotton fields and those rice plantations and those tobacco fields and those sugar plantations. On those sugar plantations, and on those tobacco fields, and on those rice plantations, and on those cotton fields were opera singers, jazz musicians, playwrights, novelists, surgeons, attorneys, accountants, professors, journalists. And how do we know that? We know that because that is what they and their children and now their grandchildren and even great-grandchildren have often chosen to become once they had the chance to choose for themselves what they would do with their God-given talents.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| great migration |
14 |
| jim crow |
6 |
| caste system |
6 |
| african americans |
5 |
| crow south |
4 |
| cheap labor |
4 |
| single decision |
3 |
| american history |
3 |
| black person |
3 |
| white person |
3 |
| labor problem |
3 |
| young person |
2 |
| world war |
2 |
| american citizens |
2 |
| playing checkers |
2 |
| person playing |
2 |
| east coast |
2 |
| carried people |
2 |
| lowest caste |
2 |
| caste people |
2 |
| cotton fields |
2 |
| john coltrane |
2 |
| person added |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
| collocation |
frequency |
| jim crow south |
4 |
| white person playing |
2 |
| lowest caste people |
2 |
Important Words
- accountants
- attorneys
- chance
- children
- choose
- chosen
- cotton
- fields
- grandchildren
- jazz
- journalists
- musicians
- novelists
- opera
- plantations
- playwrights
- professors
- rice
- singers
- sugar
- surgeons
- talents
- tobacco