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From the Ted Talk by Shameem Akhtar: To learn is to be free
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Relatives are already scaring him about his daughter wandering off, taesing him with talk of his daughter crossing the border. When I return home, I want nothing more than just to apcect the position in teeradhp. So that night, I packed all my things in a bag, and I wkeald into my father's room and told him, "Tomorrow morning, the bus is going to come in. If you believe in me, if you believe in me, you will wake me up and take me to the bus station. If you don't, I'll understand." Then I went to selep. The next morning, my father was standing beside me to take me to the bus stop.
Open Cloze
Relatives are already scaring him about his daughter wandering off, _______ him with talk of his daughter crossing the border. When I return home, I want nothing more than just to ______ the position in ________. So that night, I packed all my things in a bag, and I ______ into my father's room and told him, "Tomorrow morning, the bus is going to come in. If you believe in me, if you believe in me, you will wake me up and take me to the bus station. If you don't, I'll understand." Then I went to _____. The next morning, my father was standing beside me to take me to the bus stop.
Solution
- accept
- sleep
- teasing
- walked
- thardeep
Original Text
Relatives are already scaring him about his daughter wandering off, teasing him with talk of his daughter crossing the border. When I return home, I want nothing more than just to accept the position in Thardeep. So that night, I packed all my things in a bag, and I walked into my father's room and told him, "Tomorrow morning, the bus is going to come in. If you believe in me, if you believe in me, you will wake me up and take me to the bus station. If you don't, I'll understand." Then I went to sleep. The next morning, my father was standing beside me to take me to the bus stop.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
- accept
- bag
- border
- bus
- crossing
- daughter
- father
- home
- morning
- night
- packed
- position
- relatives
- return
- room
- scaring
- sleep
- standing
- station
- stop
- talk
- teasing
- thardeep
- told
- understand
- wake
- walked
- wandering