Escuela Municipal

Gustavo Bisquertt S.
Popeta Rengo
Teacher: M. Carolina Prez S.

ENGLISH WORK 7 GRADE

THE FASTEST THING ON NO LEGS
NAME: DATE: . GRADE: .....
Objetivo: Reading Comprehension

SCORE: / PTOS.

1.- Look in the dictionary this key words: (18 ptos.)

1.- himself:
2.- amputee:
3.- impaired:
4.- disabled:
5.- legs:
6.- fiber:

7.- limbs:
8.- beneath:
9.- knee:
10.- reply:
11.- became:
12.- chance:

13.- shattered:
14.- field:
15.- hated:
16.- run:
17.- jump:
18.- outstanding:

2.- Read the text:

Name: Oscar Pistorius
Sport: Athletics
From: Pretoria, South Africa
Date of Birth: 22 November 1986
Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee world record holder over 100, 200 and 400 meters, does
not consider himself as impaired.
Im not disabled, he says, I just dont have any legs.
He runs on a pair of fiber legs. He was only 11 months old when doctors amputated his limbs
beneath the knee.
Oscar has an incredible attitude to his disability, exclaiming: When people ask me whats it
like having artificial legs, I reply I dont know. Whats it like having real legs?
Pistorius, a rugby, water polo and tennis enthusiast, became an athlete by chance in January
2004 when he shattered one of his artificial knee on the rugby field.
He went to the University of Pretoria for rehabilitation.
Before that, I hated athletics he says. Only eight months later he competed at the Athens
Paralympics in 2004.
He was the first paralympic athlete to win Gold in each of the 100m, 200m and 400m sprints
in Beijing 2008 and set a new record for the 400m in May 2011, he made history in Italy with
a personal best of 45.07 seconds for the mens 400m.
Only one month after that, he ran against non-disabled athletes in Daegu, South Korea, and
qualified for the 400m semi-finals.
Oscar Pistorious is not only a gold medalist with no legs. He is an outstanding athlete, a real
character, and a true ambassador for disability sport.

II.- Read the text again and decide if these statements are T (true) or F (false).
(5ptos)
a.- Oscar Pistorius was born in Europe.
b.- He can run faster than most non disabled people.
c.- He cant imagine how life with real legs is.
d.- He has liked athletics since he was a boy.
e.- It took him a long time to become an athlete.

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III.- Find the words in column A in the text and match them with their meaning in
column B.
(4ptos)
A
Impaired
Limb
Merely
Shattered

B
an arm or a leg
crushed
having a mental or physical problem
only, simply

IV.- Complete the summary of the text about Oscar Pistorius. (11 PTOS)
Oscar Pistorius is know as .........................................................
He was born in ............................................................................
In .................................. At the age of .............................. he had his ............... amputated.
In .......................................... he went to ................................ for rehabilitation and
became an ...................................... eight months later, he ........................................
Nowadays, he can ........................................ In future games, he plans to ........................