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 communication classes.

3. Her attitude is positive in front of life. She feels able to swim and se leaves
People high and dry, because many people believe she can’ do it. She feels able to
transfer to her bed. If she didn’t 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 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 could get depressed because it can 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 able to do my daily activities as I
usually do them because I couldn’t move so fast from a place to another 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 the life of handicapped people helping them feel happy,
have a good time, giving advices so they can feel okay ad being very friendly with them.

When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform as
follows:

1. Click on the title of this evidence.

2. Click on Examinar mi equipo and look for the file in your computer. Make sure
the file is attached.
3. Leave a comment for the instructor (optional).
4. Click Enviar.

Note: This evidence is an individual activity. Remember to check the learning

guide in order to know if you have done all the assigned activities, know how to
develop them and deliver them correctly.

Criterios de evaluación
 Combina diferentes condicionales para expresar ideas en el contexto
requerido.

 Expresa ideas sobre flexibilidad y adaptabilidad en diferentes contextos de

la vida, usando el vocabulario requerido.

References

Andersen, E. (2010). Perfectly abled life on campus with a disability. Consultado

el 03 de noviembre de 2014, en https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=kr5hHmZbQHw