Response to text: Overcoming a Disability

 Overcoming a Disability

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1. Frida Kahlo is a famous

a) Singer                                                b) Athlete

c) Artist                                                         d) Actress

2. John Nash is an American mathematician who won 

a) A Gold Medal at the Paralympics                     b) The Nobel Prize in Physics

c) An Oscar for the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind'        d) The Nobel Prize in Economics

3. Stephen Hawking was a famous Scientist who had to communicate using

a) Sign Language                             b) Singing

c) A Voice Synthesiser                                d) Text Messaging

4. List 2 facts about Nick Vujicic

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1. Nick Vujicic is a world-famous celebrity with a disability, and founder of Life Without Limbs, an organisation for people with physical disabilities.

2. Nick Vujicic was born in 1982 with no limbs.

5. True or False: Andrea Boccelli became completely blind at the age of 12

a) True b) False

6. Michael J Fox suffers from 

a) Paraplegia                                                b) Parkinson’s Disease

c) Schizophrenia                                d) Muscular Dystrophy

7. Explain why the celebrities mentioned above are amazing people. 

→They are not just amazing, they are astonishing. The lives of most of them have not been easy because of their disability. They didn't give up, they wanted to do what they love. Just like Frida Kahlo was suffering from severe pain but even so, she became one of the most famous artists of all time. That's why they are astonishing people.