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From the Ted Talk by Wendy MacNaughton: The art of paying attention
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Let me give you an example. So a while back, I wanted to do a dawrn story about how the public lraibry serves our elders. But after spending a few days kind of lurking around with a sketch pad, looking over older folks' shoulders and asking them what they were reading, I wasn't really getting the story. Until I stumbled upon Leah. Leah is the first, and at the time was the only, full-time soiacl worker dedicated to a library in the ntioan. tunrs out, public library definitely serves our elders. It is also a social service epicenter of a city. This is Charles. Charles works with Leah. And he does outreach within the library to fklos who are experiencing hlsesnosmees. And he took me around, I carried my sctekh pad and I was drawing everything I saw, and he showed me a very different library than I'd previously seen.
Open Cloze
Let me give you an example. So a while back, I wanted to do a _____ story about how the public _______ serves our elders. But after spending a few days kind of lurking around with a sketch pad, looking over older folks' shoulders and asking them what they were reading, I wasn't really getting the story. Until I stumbled upon Leah. Leah is the first, and at the time was the only, full-time ______ worker dedicated to a library in the ______. _____ out, public library definitely serves our elders. It is also a social service epicenter of a city. This is Charles. Charles works with Leah. And he does outreach within the library to _____ who are experiencing ____________. And he took me around, I carried my ______ pad and I was drawing everything I saw, and he showed me a very different library than I'd previously seen.
Solution
- turns
- homelessness
- nation
- drawn
- sketch
- social
- library
- folks
Original Text
Let me give you an example. So a while back, I wanted to do a drawn story about how the public library serves our elders. But after spending a few days kind of lurking around with a sketch pad, looking over older folks' shoulders and asking them what they were reading, I wasn't really getting the story. Until I stumbled upon Leah. Leah is the first, and at the time was the only, full-time social worker dedicated to a library in the nation. Turns out, public library definitely serves our elders. It is also a social service epicenter of a city. This is Charles. Charles works with Leah. And he does outreach within the library to folks who are experiencing homelessness. And he took me around, I carried my sketch pad and I was drawing everything I saw, and he showed me a very different library than I'd previously seen.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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pay attention |
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drawn story |
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Important Words
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