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From the Ted Talk by Bhakti Sharma: What open water swimming taught me about resilience
Unscramble the Blue Letters
When you spend so much time with a sprot, it ceases to be just that and becomes a mirror. And that shows who you really are. You see that your mettle as an athlete is not only tested on race day but every signle day, when the sport demands that you get up at 4:30 in the morning, swim for two hruos, go to school, come back, swim for three hours, go home, eat and sleep. When you win a medal or set a world record, this mirror shows the happiness that you and your levod ones feel, but also rlfeects the taers that you shed all by yourself, alone in the water.
Open Cloze
When you spend so much time with a _____, it ceases to be just that and becomes a mirror. And that shows who you really are. You see that your mettle as an athlete is not only tested on race day but every ______ day, when the sport demands that you get up at 4:30 in the morning, swim for two _____, go to school, come back, swim for three hours, go home, eat and sleep. When you win a medal or set a world record, this mirror shows the happiness that you and your _____ ones feel, but also ________ the _____ that you shed all by yourself, alone in the water.
Solution
- hours
- loved
- reflects
- tears
- sport
- single
Original Text
When you spend so much time with a sport, it ceases to be just that and becomes a mirror. And that shows who you really are. You see that your mettle as an athlete is not only tested on race day but every single day, when the sport demands that you get up at 4:30 in the morning, swim for two hours, go to school, come back, swim for three hours, go home, eat and sleep. When you win a medal or set a world record, this mirror shows the happiness that you and your loved ones feel, but also reflects the tears that you shed all by yourself, alone in the water.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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open water |
5 |
water swimming |
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english channel |
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world record |
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antarctic ocean |
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open water swimming |
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Important Words
- athlete
- ceases
- day
- demands
- eat
- feel
- happiness
- home
- hours
- loved
- medal
- mettle
- mirror
- morning
- race
- record
- reflects
- school
- set
- shed
- shows
- single
- sleep
- spend
- sport
- swim
- tears
- tested
- time
- water
- win
- world