Learning activity 2

Evidence: Life from a wheelchair

Fuente: SENA

About 1 in every 100 people is handicapped and uses a wheelchair. 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 watch the video answer the following questions. Use any voice 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?

• 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
 activities?

• 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).

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

• 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 and 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.