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READING & WRITING

1 READING

a Look at the signs. What do they remind you of?

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Do you know how life is like for a disabled person? In order to understand disabled people, we should
put ourselves into their shoes.
A We cannot understand a visually impaired C There are quite a lot of kids with CP (cerebral
person by closing our eyes for one minute. palsy). It is a kind of permanent movement disorder.
Imagine that our mum reads us “the little red They are very young to understand why they cannot
riding hood”, but we have never seen the colour go to the parks while the others can. Even if they go
red. We don’t know what it looks like. Are colours to the park, they sometimes have difficulties because
understood by touching them or smelling? We parks are not built for people with wheelchairs. The
can only understand a colour by seeing it. What parks should be for everybody. Children who have
is darkness? Is it only a period of time? I don’t this disorder sometimes can’t go out for dinner
think so. Darkness is colourless. with their families because most of the restaurants
B Imagine that you can’t hear the alarm clock don’t have a ramp for their wheelchairs. If there
or the knock on the door. You miss out on isn’t a ramp for their wheelchair, they try to sit on
social interactions. That is what life is like for a high chair but it is dangerous for them because
a hearing impaired person. Being a hearing they might slide out.
impaired person may not seem like a big problem. D
However, learning a language starts with hearing People with disabilities should be able to go to
it. They can’t hear, so they can’t learn. They even schools easily. There should be wheelchair ramps
don’t know their own voice. I think they really everywhere. People should be more respectful
want to listen to music. They don’t know what and understanding towards them. All of us ought
it sounds like. They don’t know what it feels to help visually impaired people and we should
like. Is silence a kind of relaxing atmosphere? I give way to them. We shouldn’t be impatient with
think silence must be more deadly than we all a person who can’t speak. Don’t forget that we
experience. No sound, no music, no gurgle... are a candidate for being disabled.
b Scan the article and tick ( ) the words you see. d Answer the questions.
disabled smell impaired 1. What does the writer think about darkness?
blind interaction device
deaf sound found 2. What is CP?
gurgle wheelchair
c Match the headings with the paragraphs.
3. What are the advices given in the article for us?
1. ____ Colours for the Visually Impaired

2. ____ Social Awareness
4. What is the meaning of the underlined
3. ____ Being Obliged to Wheelchairs idiom “put yourself into someone’s shoes”?
4. ____ The Silence for Hearing Impaired People

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