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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

  1. turns
  2. homelessness
  3. nation
  4. drawn
  5. sketch
  6. social
  7. library
  8. 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

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
pay attention 3
continuous line 2
drawn story 2
public library 2

Important Words

  1. carried
  2. charles
  3. city
  4. days
  5. dedicated
  6. drawing
  7. drawn
  8. elders
  9. epicenter
  10. experiencing
  11. folks
  12. give
  13. homelessness
  14. kind
  15. leah
  16. library
  17. lurking
  18. nation
  19. older
  20. outreach
  21. pad
  22. previously
  23. public
  24. reading
  25. serves
  26. service
  27. shoulders
  28. showed
  29. sketch
  30. social
  31. spending
  32. story
  33. stumbled
  34. time
  35. turns
  36. wanted
  37. worker
  38. works