Personal Reflection #2 Future Centre

The future center is a charitable facility for the people who have lack in power or mind ability and other disabilities. The facility got a will improved employee to help  student merging with the society and let them have an improved life like a normal people without letting them feel that they are different and not normal. The employee dealt with challenges at first like communicating with the students due to differences in cultures and disabilities, and they couldn’t give them the proper subject because of the limited facility due to living in a small villa. There are many students with different disabilities in this facility who need a lot of care and help and the facility achieved to let them join the Olympics for special needs and prepared them to join regular schools later. Extending the center is one of their goals to increase the capacity of student and help more of them who are in needs to give them a better life with the best equipment and employee. Finally, disabled people suffers depression and Lack of self-confidence so by integrating them to our society will help raising their confidence and it will give them the hope to live but it is more important for normal people to know how to deal with them because they are very sensitive.

Paralympians -2012

1-Who are they? Definition? Categories? /how many?

Athletes with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities, including mobility disabilities.

Amputee, mentally challenge, blind, dwarfism, wheel chair, cerebral palsy

164 countries.

2-what challenges do they face? Personal / social?

 The hour of training, securing funding

3-when did the Paralympics start?

It started in UK 1948.

4-what have they achieved since the start of the PO ? UAE athletes: since they started participating?

Recognition by the people as true athlete.

Training support.

They have been supported with equipment.

They got 359 medals.

 

 Vocabulary:

Disability: lack of power or mental ability

Amputee: a person who has lost all or part of an arm, hand, leg by amputation.

 

Cerebral palsy: a form of paralysis believed to be caused by a prenatal brain defect or by brain injury during birth, most marked in certain motor areas and characterized by difficulty in control of the voluntary muscles.

 

Intellectual disability: is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills.

Dwarfism: people who aren't able to hear clearly or can't hear anything.

Multiple sclerosis: is a chronic autoimmune disorder affecting movement and bodily functions. It is caused by destruction of the myelin insulation covering nerve fibers in the central nervous system.

Congenital disorder: A large group of disorders arising during development that cause abnormality of the human body.

- Portfolio Exercise #2 What is Cultural Diversity?

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.       At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
2.       Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False/ 175 million people live outside the country where they were born
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False/ respecting the freedom of thought
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous :  things that are mixed together but different from each other .

2.       Plurality: majority.

3.       Migration: moving from place to another for living.

4.       Fundamental: primary , essential.

5.       Collective strength: combined strength / strength in numbers

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1.       The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

History – Language  -  food

2.       Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

 

-Negotiating  / Trading

-learning different languages/ knowledge

-Creative solutions for problems

3.       From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

Melting pot: people from different places with different culture lives together  as one and create a new culture which is stronger than the past one.

Garden salad: different culture mixed together

4.       Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

 White (others= 3,096,169

Indians =1,053,411

5.       Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world.  The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

The university respects and supports the cultural diversity and wants to create an environment that helps to make the people exchange their tradition and culture together.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Homogeneous	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Worsening	Inclusive	Exclusive/Narrow
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Difference/Unfairness

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Mixed/varied	Creative	clever	Uniqueness	Singleness/Unlikeness
Dignity	Self-respect/Gravitas	Integrated	Union/combined	Asset	Aid /skill
Global	Worldwide / international	Benefit	Asset/profit	Harmony	Unity /agreement