CLASS 28

THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT (2)

NAME: Joel Noriega DATE: 2022-02-08
READING
1. Match the articles with the photos. What is the connection between the photos?

They’ve all to overcome difficulties

to achieve their goals
2. According the reading, complete the sentences.

1. Victoria’s life would have been very different if Svetlana

Had taken her to a children's home for her leg
2. Philip would never have been able to overcome his autism if
I didn't enroll him in ballet classes when he was a kid
3. Adrianne would probably have died if her husband
He didn't act fast putting a tourniquet on his leg
3. Listen to some more information about Philip Martin-Nielson and answer the questions.

1. What do the members of the company do those male dancers don’t normally do?
They wear to shoes and dance “on point”
2. Philip is one of the principal dancers for the Trocks (Les Ballets Trockadero). What is special about
this ballet company?
All the roles are played by men.
3. In what way was Philip’s hearing too sensitive? What couldn’t he do?
He heard all the conversation and songs around him at the same time and couldn’t isolate them.
4. What exactly did ballet help him to do?
Ballet helped him to focus and fact every single not of music.

4. You are going to hear some more information about Viktoria Modesta. Match the correct answer.

1. Viktoria had five / fifteen operations on her left leg when she was very

young

2. Many people on the street in Latvia were mean to her / ignored her.

3. When her family moved to UK, things got better / worse.

4. She was bullied / popular at school.

5. She began to get more confident at / after leaving school.

6. It was easy / difficult to find a surgeon to amputate her leg.