Evidence Life From a Wheelchair

Learning activity 2 Evidence: Life from a wheelchair 

Fuente: SENA Fuente: SENA

 About 1 in every 100 people is handicapped handicapped and uses a wheelchair. wheelchair. Therefore, Therefore, there are about 80 million people in wheelchairs in the world. That is twice the population of Colombia! But what is it like to live in a wheelchair? Watch the video “Perfectly abled life on campus with a disability” in the next link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr5hHmZbQHw

 After you you watch watch the the video video answer answer the following following questions. questions. Use any voice voice recording recording software to record your answers and send the file as evidence. Use mixed conditional sentences (at least 4 examples), the idioms, vocabulary and ideas about flexibility and adaptability studied in this learning activity (at least 8 words from the vocabulary). Remember to use connectors and punctuation. •

What does Ashley do for a living?

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How does her condition affect her daily activities and how does she deal with it? What is her attitude towards life? Does she feel disabled from certain

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How would your life be different if you were handicapped and had to use a wheelchair? What would be different for you? (Use mixed conditionals  in the answer).

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How do you react when you have to interact with a handicapped person?

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How can you contribute to improve the life of handicapped people?

 ANSWERS: 1. She is a Singer at the university where she studies general communication. 2. It affects in being on time for general communication classes because it’s a little more difficult for her to drive in her wheelchair so she can’ drive so fast, however she tries to be at college fifteen minutes before starting her general communicatin classes. 3. Her attitude is positive in front of life. SShe feels able to swim and se leaves people high and dry, beause many people believe she can’ do it. She feels able to transfer to her bed. If she didn’ t have tha positive atitude toward life, she would have failed in all the situations that come up daily. She feels incapacitated to do certain activities like running, she doesn’t know what feeling is. She would want to know what it feels like to walk or run . If she hadn’t been lucky enough to have her parents by her side, she wouldn’t have been able to learn to do many other things.

4. If I were handicapped and had to use a wheelchair my life would be different in aspects like: there could be an emotional change because it could be something unexpected so I coud get depressed bvecause it an be something to what I’m not acostumbrated because there would be many different things like I wouldn’t able to walk, jog, work out a the gym, dance an d I wouldn’t b able to do my daily activities as I usually do them because I couldn’t move so fast from a place to anothe place

5. When I interact with a handicapped person I react in a way friendly. I try to be very nice with that person so that it ca have a great time and it can feel very happy. 6. I can contribute to improve te life of handicapped people helping themm feel happy, have a good time, giving advices so they can feel okay ad bveing very friendly with them.