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From the Ted Talk by Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, the good news is that I have a dog and, though I don't know if I believe in luck — I don't know what I believe in, it's a very clpciaetmod question, but I do know that before I go away, I crank his tail seven times. So, whenever he sees a suitcase in the hosue, because everybody's always, you know, lvaeing, they're always cranking this wfdreuonl dog's tail, and he runs to the other room. But I am able to make the transition from working for children and — from working for adults to children, and back and forth, because, you know, I can say that I'm itmmuare, and in a way, that's true. I don't really — I mean, I could tell you that I didn't understand, I'm not pourd of it, but I didn't understand let's say 95 prceent of the talks at this conference. But I have been taking beautiful notes of drawings and I have a gorgeous onion from Murray Gell-Mann's talk. And I have a beautiful page of doodles from jnhaoatn Woodham's talk. So, good things come out of, you know, incomprehension — (Laughter) — which I will do a painting of, and then it will end up in my work. So, I'm open to the possibilities of not knowing and finding out something new.

Open Cloze

So, the good news is that I have a dog and, though I don't know if I believe in luck — I don't know what I believe in, it's a very ___________ question, but I do know that before I go away, I crank his tail seven times. So, whenever he sees a suitcase in the _____, because everybody's always, you know, _______, they're always cranking this _________ dog's tail, and he runs to the other room. But I am able to make the transition from working for children and — from working for adults to children, and back and forth, because, you know, I can say that I'm ________, and in a way, that's true. I don't really — I mean, I could tell you that I didn't understand, I'm not _____ of it, but I didn't understand let's say 95 _______ of the talks at this conference. But I have been taking beautiful notes of drawings and I have a gorgeous onion from Murray Gell-Mann's talk. And I have a beautiful page of doodles from ________ Woodham's talk. So, good things come out of, you know, incomprehension — (Laughter) — which I will do a painting of, and then it will end up in my work. So, I'm open to the possibilities of not knowing and finding out something new.

Solution

  1. jonathan
  2. house
  3. immature
  4. leaving
  5. wonderful
  6. proud
  7. percent
  8. complicated

Original Text

So, the good news is that I have a dog and, though I don't know if I believe in luck — I don't know what I believe in, it's a very complicated question, but I do know that before I go away, I crank his tail seven times. So, whenever he sees a suitcase in the house, because everybody's always, you know, leaving, they're always cranking this wonderful dog's tail, and he runs to the other room. But I am able to make the transition from working for children and — from working for adults to children, and back and forth, because, you know, I can say that I'm immature, and in a way, that's true. I don't really — I mean, I could tell you that I didn't understand, I'm not proud of it, but I didn't understand let's say 95 percent of the talks at this conference. But I have been taking beautiful notes of drawings and I have a gorgeous onion from Murray Gell-Mann's talk. And I have a beautiful page of doodles from Jonathan Woodham's talk. So, good things come out of, you know, incomprehension — (Laughter) — which I will do a painting of, and then it will end up in my work. So, I'm open to the possibilities of not knowing and finding out something new.

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Important Words

  1. adults
  2. beautiful
  3. children
  4. complicated
  5. conference
  6. crank
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  8. dog
  9. doodles
  10. drawings
  11. finding
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  14. house
  15. immature
  16. incomprehension
  17. jonathan
  18. knowing
  19. laughter
  20. leaving
  21. luck
  22. murray
  23. news
  24. notes
  25. onion
  26. open
  27. page
  28. painting
  29. percent
  30. possibilities
  31. proud
  32. question
  33. room
  34. runs
  35. sees
  36. suitcase
  37. tail
  38. talk
  39. talks
  40. times
  41. transition
  42. true
  43. understand
  44. wonderful
  45. work
  46. working