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From the Ted Talk by Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up art

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So I'm — yeah, actually I'm kind of finished at that moment. And for those who want to see more, I've got my book downstairs in the bookshop. And I'm hpapy to sign it for you with any name of any artist. (Laughter) But before leaving I would like to show you, I'm wirkong right now on another — in a related felid with my tidying up art method. I'm working in a related field. And I started to bring some odrer into some flags. Here — that's just my new psaoprol here for the Union Jack. (Laughter) And then maybe before I leave you ... yeah, I think, after you have seen that I have to leave anyway. (Laughter) Yeah, that was a hard one. I couldn't find a way to tidy that up properly, so I just decdeid to make it a little bit more simpler. (lgaehtur) Thank you very much. (Applause)

Open Cloze

So I'm — yeah, actually I'm kind of finished at that moment. And for those who want to see more, I've got my book downstairs in the bookshop. And I'm _____ to sign it for you with any name of any artist. (Laughter) But before leaving I would like to show you, I'm _______ right now on another — in a related _____ with my tidying up art method. I'm working in a related field. And I started to bring some _____ into some flags. Here — that's just my new ________ here for the Union Jack. (Laughter) And then maybe before I leave you ... yeah, I think, after you have seen that I have to leave anyway. (Laughter) Yeah, that was a hard one. I couldn't find a way to tidy that up properly, so I just _______ to make it a little bit more simpler. (________) Thank you very much. (Applause)

Solution

  1. proposal
  2. laughter
  3. happy
  4. order
  5. working
  6. decided
  7. field

Original Text

So I'm — yeah, actually I'm kind of finished at that moment. And for those who want to see more, I've got my book downstairs in the bookshop. And I'm happy to sign it for you with any name of any artist. (Laughter) But before leaving I would like to show you, I'm working right now on another — in a related field with my tidying up art method. I'm working in a related field. And I started to bring some order into some flags. Here — that's just my new proposal here for the Union Jack. (Laughter) And then maybe before I leave you ... yeah, I think, after you have seen that I have to leave anyway. (Laughter) Yeah, that was a hard one. I couldn't find a way to tidy that up properly, so I just decided to make it a little bit more simpler. (Laughter) Thank you very much. (Applause)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  35. yeah