Evidence Life From a Wheelchair

Learning activity 2 Evidence: Life from a wheelchair 

Fuente: SENA

Learning activity 2 Evidence: Life from a wheelchair   About 1 in every 100 people people is handicappe handicapped d and uses uses a wheelchair wheelchair.. Therefore, Therefore, there there are about 80 million people in wheelchairs in the world. That is twice the population of olombia! "ut what is it li#e to live in a wheelchair$ %atch the video &'erfectly abled life on campus with a disability( in the ne)t lin#* https*++www.youtube.com+watch$v#r-hm/bw

 After you watch the the video answer the followin followin 2uestions. 2uestions. 3se 3se any voice voice recordin recordin software to record your answers and send the file as evidence. 3se mi)ed conditional sentences 4at least 5 e)amples6, the idioms, vocabulary and ideas about fle)ibility and adaptability studied in this learnin activity 4at least 8 words from the vocabulary6. 7emember to use connectors and punctuation. 

%hat does Ashley do for a livin$  Ashly sins sins at certain certain times times of the day and has to leave leave her bedroom earlier than than usual.

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ow does her condition affect her daily activities and how does she deal with it$

She finds it difficult to write fast and for the e)treme weather it ta#es Ashley a few minutes more to o to classes in the snow. She has to deal with the uys who loo# at her with fear, but she lets o with the flow. 

%hat is her attitude towards life$ oes she feel disabled from certain activities$ er attitude is positive in front of life. She feels able to swim and she leaves people hih and dry, because many people believe that she can9t do it. She feels able to transfer to her bed. :f she didn9t have that positive attitude toward life, she would have failed in all the situations that come up daily. She feels incapacitated to do certain activities li#e runnin, she doesn9t #now what that feelin is. She would want to #now what it feels li#e to wal# or run. :f she hadn9t been luc#y enouh to have her parents by her side, she wouldn9t have been able to learn to do many other thins.

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ow would your life be different if you were handicapped and had to use a wheelchair$ %hat would be different for you$ 43se mi)ed conditionals in the answer6. ;y life would be completely different if : didn9t have my body functionin normally, since in many aspects of life we have to use our limbs and senses to do different daily activities. "ut : thin# that many limitations are in our mind, we always have the open mind to learn new thins, to adapt to the chanes and that nothin affects our determination to et ahead.

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ow do you react when you have to interact with a handicapped person$ ;y attitude is totally normal towards her, but at the same time it is also of service, since that person may need my help at any time

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ow can you contribute to improve the life of handicapped people$ : can contribute to improvin the lives of people with disabilities, with my service in the thins that : may need. : can contribute with my emotional support, it is important that you find ways to en
Criterios de evaluación 

Combina diferentes condicionales para expresar ideas en el contexto requerido.

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Expresa ideas sobre flexibilidad y adaptabilidad en diferentes contextos de la vida, usando el vocabulario requerido.

References

 Andersen, E. 4=0106. Perfectly abled life on campus with a disability.  onsultado el 0> de noviembre de =015, en https*++www.youtube.com+watch$ v#r-hm/bw