Lesson 3

Reading and listening

1. Listen and choose the correct words.

The Al Nour Wal Amal Chamber Orchestra is at a school for (1) blind / deaf girls in Cairo. Eman Badr is one of the (2) artists / musicians. She is able to play the (3) piano / violin very well. She started (4) going / playing when she was six. Eman became blind when she was two years old. She likes playing in the (5) museum / orchestra because she loves music and being with her friends. Recently, she visited Oman and France with the orchestra.

I think the orchestra is (6) amazing / cool. It must be very difficult to (7) read / write music with your hands and then remember it. I would like to go to one of their (8) concerts / plays.

Vocabulary

2. Match the words with their meanings.

1. blind c. not able to see.
2. deaf a. not able to hear.
3. disabled b. not able to use parts of the body in the way other people can.

Writing

3. Look at the picture and complete the sentences about the difficulties disabled people can have.

1. The blind man is not able to see the traffic light.
2. The disabled woman cannot go to the shop/up the stairs.
3. The deaf boy is not able to her the other boy.

4. Write a list of four things that we can do to help some of the people in Exercise 3.

1. Someone could tell the blind man that the lights are green for him. / The traffic lights could make a noise so that the blind man knows when it is green.
2. Someone could put a slope/ramp on the stairs for the disabled woman so she can go in the shop.
3. The boy who is shouting could stand in front of the deaf boy so that he knows he is talking to him.
4. The boy who is shouting could learn sign language.