Learning activity 2Evidence: 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 She is a Singer at the university where she studies general communication. she would have failed in all the situations that come up daily. She would want to know what it feels like to walk or run. jog. beause many people believe she can’ do it. If she hadn’t been lucky enough to have her parents by her side. 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 . She feels able to transfer to her bed. 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. she wouldn’t have been able to learn to do many other things. 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). she doesn’t know what feeling is. however she tries to be at college fifteen minutes before starting her general communicatin classes. SShe feels able to swim and se leaves people high and dry. 4. 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. 3. • 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 feels incapacitated to do certain activities like running. work out a the gym. If she didn’t have tha positive atitude toward life. Her attitude is positive in front of life. 5. 6. have a good time. I can contribute to improve te life of handicapped people helping themm feel happy. I try to be very nice with that person so that it ca have a great time and it can feel very happy. When I interact with a handicapped person I react in a way friendly. . giving advices so they can feel okay ad bveing very friendly with them.