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From the Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists

Unscramble the Blue Letters

which was having enough power of its own. But my teacher would also give you a cane to hold in your hand while you walk around and pratol the calss for noisemakers. Now, of course you were not actually allowed to use the cane. But it was an exciting prospect for the nine-year-old me. I very much wntaed to be the class monitor. And I got the highest score on the test. Then, to my surprise, my teacher said that the monitor had to be a boy. She had forgotten to make that celar earlier because she assumed it was ... obvious.

Open Cloze

which was having enough power of its own. But my teacher would also give you a cane to hold in your hand while you walk around and ______ the _____ for noisemakers. Now, of course you were not actually allowed to use the cane. But it was an exciting prospect for the nine-year-old me. I very much ______ to be the class monitor. And I got the highest score on the test. Then, to my surprise, my teacher said that the monitor had to be a boy. She had forgotten to make that _____ earlier because she assumed it was ... obvious.

Solution

  1. class
  2. wanted
  3. patrol
  4. clear

Original Text

which was having enough power of its own. But my teacher would also give you a cane to hold in your hand while you walk around and patrol the class for noisemakers. Now, of course you were not actually allowed to use the cane. But it was an exciting prospect for the nine-year-old me. I very much wanted to be the class monitor. And I got the highest score on the test. Then, to my surprise, my teacher said that the monitor had to be a boy. She had forgotten to make that clear earlier because she assumed it was ... obvious.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
class monitor 4
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teach girls 4
highest score 3
teach boys 3
raising children 3
bottom power 3
okoloma maduewesi 2
happy african 2
lip gloss 2
human beings 2
waiter greets 2
gender matters 2
fragile egos 2
gender expectations 2
cook indomie 2
ugly suit 2
black man 2
fact true 2

Important Words

  1. allowed
  2. assumed
  3. boy
  4. cane
  5. class
  6. clear
  7. earlier
  8. exciting
  9. forgotten
  10. give
  11. hand
  12. highest
  13. hold
  14. monitor
  15. noisemakers
  16. obvious
  17. patrol
  18. power
  19. prospect
  20. score
  21. surprise
  22. teacher
  23. test
  24. walk
  25. wanted