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From the Ted Talk by William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes"
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But it's not just about psychology; it's about economics. Because as people walk, they spend money. And this woman right here, Um ahamd, is a woman who leivs on the path in Northern Jordan. She's desperately poor. She's partially blind, her husband can't work, she's got seven kids. But what she can do is cook. And so she's begun to cook for some groups of wakelrs who come through the village and have a meal in her home. They sit on the folor — she doesn't even have a tablecloth. She makes the most delicious food, that's fresh from the herbs in the surrounding countryside. And so more and more walkers have come, and lately she's begun to earn an ioncme to spuport her family. And so she told our team there, she said, "You have made me visible in a vglilae where people were once ahasmed to look at me." That's the potential of the Abraham Path.
Open Cloze
But it's not just about psychology; it's about economics. Because as people walk, they spend money. And this woman right here, Um _____, is a woman who _____ on the path in Northern Jordan. She's desperately poor. She's partially blind, her husband can't work, she's got seven kids. But what she can do is cook. And so she's begun to cook for some groups of _______ who come through the village and have a meal in her home. They sit on the _____ — she doesn't even have a tablecloth. She makes the most delicious food, that's fresh from the herbs in the surrounding countryside. And so more and more walkers have come, and lately she's begun to earn an ______ to _______ her family. And so she told our team there, she said, "You have made me visible in a _______ where people were once _______ to look at me." That's the potential of the Abraham Path.
Solution
- walkers
- ashamed
- floor
- support
- ahmad
- income
- village
- lives
Original Text
But it's not just about psychology; it's about economics. Because as people walk, they spend money. And this woman right here, Um Ahmad, is a woman who lives on the path in Northern Jordan. She's desperately poor. She's partially blind, her husband can't work, she's got seven kids. But what she can do is cook. And so she's begun to cook for some groups of walkers who come through the village and have a meal in her home. They sit on the floor — she doesn't even have a tablecloth. She makes the most delicious food, that's fresh from the herbs in the surrounding countryside. And so more and more walkers have come, and lately she's begun to earn an income to support her family. And so she told our team there, she said, "You have made me visible in a village where people were once ashamed to look at me." That's the potential of the Abraham Path.
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