Close Your Eyes and See

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Basic listening skills. Understand the topic, close your eyes and see here jack, he's a 22 year old man, he is blonde. So, listen to his story and answer this question. What does he want from people? One, he wants people to understand him, too. He wants people to help him.

Three, he wants people to read to him. So, everybody, please listen carefully, and choose the correct answer. Are you ready? Let's start. Close your eyes and see. That's what I tell young children when they asked me how it is to be blind.

I say to them, just close your eyes and tell me what you see. Well, of course, when you close your eyes You can't really see. But when you close your eyes, you're still you, right? You're still a real person. You haven't changed. When you can see, you can still feel the world around you.

You can talk, you can listen, you can walk, you can stand up, sit down, eat, drink, and you can laugh, cry, love and hate, just like everyone else. Many non blind people, people who can see, think and act as though I'm not a real person. The waiter asked my friend what I wanted to eat. He didn't ask me why. They think that I can't hear that. I can't talk.

That I'm stupid. Things like that happened to me all the time. People who are disabled people who are blind or can't hear or can't walk or talk We are all real people. We don't want people to feel sorry for us. We want people to understand that we are real people first. So, to help you understand this, close your eyes.

That's right, close them. Now keep them closed for as long as you can. Are you still the same person? Of course. Do you understand? Now that you have close your eyes?

You can see. So the correct answer is actually he wants people to understand him. Yes. Now in the second part, listen again and fill in each blank. After that, we will check it. Are you ready?

Let's start. Close your eyes and see. That's what I tell young children when they asked me how it is to be blind. I say to them, just close your eyes and tell me what you see. Well, of course, when you close your eyes, you can't really see. But when you close your eyes, you're still you, right?

You're still a real person. You haven't changed. When you can't see, you can still feel the world around you. You can talk you can listen, you can walk. You can stand up, sit down, eat, drink, and you can laugh, cry, love and hate, just like everyone else. Many non blind people, people who can see, think and act as though I'm not a real person.

The waiter asked my friend what I wanted to eat. He didn't ask me why. If think that's I can't hear that I can't talk. That I'm stupid. Things like that happened to me all the time. People who are disabled people who are blind or can't hear or can't walk or talk, we are all real people.

We don't want people to feel sorry for us. We want people to understand that we're real people first. So, to help you understand this, close your eyes. That's right, close them. Now keep them closed for as long as you can. Are you still the same person?

Of course. Do you understand? Now that you have close your eyes? You can see Okay, guys, now let's check the correct words. So the correct words are blind. See?

World non blind? Me here understand that suits that's great

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