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Exercise 6. Choose the best word to complete the sen­tences. Check yourself with a dictionary.
a. enhanced b. benefit c. restore d. impaired e. mobility f. congenital g. screened h. rehabilitate
1. We want to ... the victims of the accident.
2. Winning that award greatly ... her reputation.
3. Three wins in a row helped ... the team's confidence.
4. A recurring knee injury may have ... his chances of winning
the tournament.
5. I've had the ... of a happy childhood.
6. Some neck injuries cause total loss of ... below the point
of injury.
7. Babies are routinely ... for the condition.
8. ... diseases or problems are ones that people have from
when they are born.
Exercise 7. Read the text «Medical Rehabilitation» and answer the following questions.
1. What is the aim of medical rehabilitation?
2. It focuses on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
disabilities, doesn't it?
3. Whom is early intervention designed for?
4. When do qualified professionals begin to work with children?
5. What do physical therapy services focus on?
6. What kind of activities of daily life occupational therapy
focus on?
7. Who helps to restore communicative skills lost due to injury?
8. What does assistive technology include?
9. What does recreational therapy include for people with dis-
abilities?
Exercise 8. Make an information map to collect information about medical rehabilitation.
Medical rehabilitation
to be a branch of medicine
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Exercise 9. Creative task.
Common Signs. Match the sign with the description.
1. Information. 2. First Aid. 3. Meeting Point. 4. Child Services.
5. Lost and Found. 6. Pedestrian Crossing. 7. Slippery Surface.
8. Cloakroom. 9. No Smoking. 10. Emergency Exit. 11. Accessible.
12. Hearing Loop. 13. Toilets. 14. No access. 15. Ramp. 16. Elevator.
a. b. c. d.
e. f. g. h.
i. j. k. l.
m. n. o. p.
Put your answers in this table. Model:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
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Unit 9
TEXT 1.
etiquette do you know? Try to explain them. Read the following text and find out whether you are right or not.
would extend to anyone, including personal privacy. When you offer to assist someone with a vision impairment, allow the person to take your arm. This will help you to guide, rather than propel or lead, the person.
this familiarity to everyone present. Don't patronize people who use wheelchairs by patting them on the head. Reserve this sign of affec­tion for children.
rectly to him or her, rather than through a companion who may be along. Don't be embarrassed if you happen to use common expres­sions, such as «See you later» or «I've got to run», that seem to re­late to the person's disability.
tap the person on the shoulder or wave your hand. Look directly at the person and speak clearly, slowly and expressively to establish if the person can read your lips. Not everyone with hearing impair­ments can lip-read. Shouting won't help, but written notes will.
a few minutes, place yourself at the wheelchair user's eye level to spare both of you a stiff neck.
needs it before you act, and listen to any instructions the person may want to give. When giving directions to a person in a wheelchair, con­sider distance, weather conditions and physical obstacles such as stairs, curbs and steep hills. When directing a person with a visual impairment, use specifics such as «left 5 meters» or «right 2 meters».
Disability Etiquette
BEFOR E YOU READ :
Can you give a definition of etiquette? What rules of disability
People with disabilities are entitled to the same courtesies you
Call a person by his or her first name only when you extend
When talking with someone who has a disability, speak di-
To get the attention of a person who has a hearing disability,
When talking with a person in a wheelchair for more than
If you would like to help someone with a disability, ask if he or she
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Be considerate of the extra time it might take a person with a disability to get things done or said. Let the person set the pace in walking and talking. When planning events involving persons with disabilities, consider their needs ahead of time. If an insurmountable barrier exists, let them know about it prior to the event.
From Disability Etiquette: [Электронный ресурс]. – Режим доступа :
http://report.nih.gov. Дата обращения: 15.06.2011.
EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Put in the missing letters. Check yourself with
a dictionary: -r-v-cy, -ti-u-t-e, -a-il-a-ity, -he-l-ha-r, e-p-es-i-n, a-t-nt- on, d-re-ti-n, -i-ta-ce, -b-ta-le, -n-u-mo-n-a-le.
Exercise 2. Find the right pronunciation of these words in a dictionary, read them and explain their meaning: personal
privacy, disability etiquette, to use common expressions, a physical obstacle.
Exercise 3. Match the words with their definitions.
1. overcome a. polite behaviour, or a polite action or remark
2. etiquette b. to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important
3. courtesy c. not easily bent or moved
4. privacy d. something abnormal, usually in the body
5. vision e. the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens or changes
6. patronize f. to defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something
7. embarrass g. to cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable
8. stiff h. the ability to see
9. pace i. someone's right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret
10. abnormality j. the set of rules or customs that control accepted behaviour in particular social groups or social situations
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Put your answers in this table. Model:
1. f 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Exercise 4. Learn new words and word combinations and
use them in your topics.
to give a direction to smb in a wheelchair personal privacy to call a person by his/her first name disability etiquette to use common expressions a physical obstacle to get the attention of smb to use a wheelchair an insurmountable barrier to patronize a person
Exercise 5. Read and translate the text with a dictionary. Choose sentences which help you to tell about disability eti­quette.
Exercise 6. Choose the best word to complete the sen­tences. Check yourself with a dictionary.
a. etiquette b. courtesies c. stiff d. privacy e. patronizing f. vision g. embarrass h. overcome
1. Sitting still at a computer terminal all day can give you a ...
neck.
2. Eventually she managed to ... her shyness in class.
3. Social ... dictates that men cannot sit while women are
standing.
4. The president welcomed the Queen with the usual ... .
5. The new law is designed to protect people's ... .
6. He has poor ... in his left eye.
7. Stop ... me – I understand the play as well as you do.
8. I didn't want to ... her in front of her friends.
Exercise 7. Read the text «Disability Etiquette» and an­swer the following questions.
1. Can you help people with disabilities to cross the street?
2. Is it polite when you pat people who use wheelchairs
on their heads?
3. Whom can you pat on the head?
4. How must we talk with someone who has a disability?
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5. Can you use such common expressions as «See you later»
or «I've got to run»? Why? Why not?
6. What must you do to get the attention of a person who has
a hearing disability?
7. In what way must you speak with this person?
8. How should you speak with a person in a wheelchair?
9. Must you always help someone with a disability?
10. What must you know when you give directions to a person
in a wheelchair?
Exercise 8. Make an information map to collect informa­tion about disability etiquette.
Disability Etiquette
Exercise 9. Creative task.
Which of these words can be used to describe these peo­ple?
* invalid
* handicapped
* wheelchair user
* disabled
* wheelchair bound
to speak directly to smb
* black * afro-caribbean * nigger * coloured
* dark-skinned
* grandma
* old
* senior citizen
* elderly
* a pensioner
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ACROSS:
1. A way of swimming in which you push your arms forward and then to the side, while you kick your legs backwards. 4. The main official sent by the government of a country to represent it in another country.
10. To help someone live a normal life again after they have had a serious illness. 13. Treatment which helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after an illness. 14. Easy to understand. 16. A fixed set of ideas that is generally held about the characteristics of a particular type of person or thing, which are wrongly believed to be shared by all the people and things of that type. 17. Someone from the same country as you. 18. To defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something.
19. When you achieve what you want to achieve.
DOWN:
2. A physical condition involving permanent tightening of the mus­cles which is caused by damage to the brain around or before the time of birth. 3. An entertaining activity or sport that people play, usually needing some skill and played according to rules. 5. Someone who wins a game, com- petition, or election. 6. A formal event that is performed on important social or religious occasions. 7. Something that makes something else happen, grow, or develop more. 8. Not easily bent or moved. 9. A sports competi­tion that combines skiing and shooting a gun. 11. Something abnormal, usually in the body. 12. A way of swimming in which you push your arms forward and then to the side, while you kick your legs backwards. 13. A child who has just learned to walk. 15. The state of feeling unhealthy.
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