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- Before introducing the character, the class begins with the following questions:  
      -Do you know anybody that was born deaf, blind or both? How can they manage?   
     -People with disabilities still face many disadvantages in society. What are some of these disadvantages?   
     - What do you think It is worse, being born deaf, or blind?  
  
- Next, they watch the trailer of The miracle worker and talk about sign language and how they felt watching the video.   
- They are asked to write down their reactions on a piece of paper before they speak, as well as answer the following question: If I were blind or deaf I would.....  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQAgjfEadM (30/03/2022) 

Other deafblind people of the time included:  
 -Laura Bridgman (1829-1889), was not as famous as Helen Keller, but is recognised as the first American deafblind person to learn to read and write, 50 years before Helen. Launched to fame by the writer Charles Dickens, some people consider her to have been even more intelligent than Helen.   
-Marie Heurtin (1885-1921), who was born deafblind in France, learned to read and write in French when her educator Sister Sainte-Marguerite taught her sign language. Her life was made into a film in The Story of Marie Heurtin with good reviews.  
 -Yvonne Pitrois, (1880-1937) French deaf journalist and writer. She was the European correspondent for The Silent Worker for many years.   
 -Clara Maria Victoria Pechuan, received the "PREMIOS ASOCIDE CV 2012" award for her efforts and dedication to women with visual and hearing impairment. In addition to being the first totally deafblind woman founder of ASOCIDE in the Valencian Community in 1999, she graduated as a physiotherapist.   
 - Gennet Corcuera (1984-), abandoned in an African orphanage and adopted by a family in Madrid, has completed her university studies, being the first deafblind from birth in Europe to do so, and is now working in a special education school with deafblind people.     

Descripció

The aim of this activity is to improve oral expression. Before watching a trailer about the life of Helen Keller, we reflect on the topic of disabilities and, later,talk about the feelings we have had when watching the video.   
Contextual models and commonly used discourse genres. Use of the second conditional. 

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