Story of life


May 15

There are many amazing people who have been good examples of life for every human being. They can be called HEROES. This is one of those amazing people:





  Watch how she could communicate with others and listen to one of her speeches





Read and Listen to Helen Keller's life:

http://www.manythings.org/voa/people/Helen_Keller-1.html

http://www.manythings.org/voa/people/Helen_Keller-2.html

Finally, go to the following page and do the scavenger hunt activity, then copy your answers on comments:

http://www.quia.com/sh/36620.html?AP_rand=1004070949


Grammar topic:

would: Talking about the past

We often use would as a kind of past tense
We sometimes use would (rather like used to) when talking about habitual past behaviour. Example:

"Helen Keller would hang on to her mother's skirt to get around. She would feel of people's hands to try to find out what they were doing".
  • Every weekday my father would come home from work at 6pm and watch TV.
  • Every summer we'd go to the seaside.
  • Sometimes she'd phone me in the middle of the night.
  • We would always argue. We could never agree. 
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-modal-would.htm


Task in class:

Read Helen Keller's life http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdkell.htm and answer the following questions:


1. What caused Helen Keller to become blind and deaf?

2. Imagine losing your sense of sight and your sense of hearing. Close your eyes and put your
hands over your ears. How could you learn?

3. After this event how did Helen recognize people?

4. How was Helen able to "talk" to her family?

5. How did Helen demonstrate her frustration?

6. Why was Anne Sullivan able to relate so well to the child Helen?

7. Why was the "water" incident so crucial in Helen Keller's development?

8. How was Helen able to attend classes in college?

9. How was Helen able to earn money to buy a house?

10. How many years did Helen Keller and her teacher remain together?

11. How long did Helen Keller live

26 comments:

  1. 1. she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind
    2.is frustrating, the only way to learn something is te sense of touch
    3. She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4. she has a signals for comunicate with her family
    5. She began to throw temper tantrums.
    6. because, anne sullivan would blind
    7. because, she learned to relate the material to the word.
    8. her teacher Anne went with her and tapped out the words of the instructors into helen's hand.
    9. whith the money, for the sell of her book "the story of my life".
    10. helen and anne remain together 50 years
    11. helen keller lived 88 years

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  2. 1. Helen Keller became blind and deaf because of a high fever.
    2. I don't know... maybe I could talk because I know it, but to see or listen, I would use my other senses, but this would be very difficult yet.
    3.She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4. Helen able to "talk" to her family when She made up signs with her hands
    5. Helen demostrated her frustration when She became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums
    6. Because Miss Sullivan had been blind before.
    7.Because this was the key which unlocked the world for her, she started to ask about all around and she began to learn more...
    8. Helen could attend classes because Miss Sullivan went with her to the college and tapped out the words of the instructors into the helen's hands.
    9. She could earn money to buy a house because She wrote a book called "The Story of My life"
    10. They were together for 50 years.
    11. Helen Keller lived around 88 years.

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  3. Task in class: solution the questions:

    1. She had a high fever|
    2. I could use the resource of the sense of touch, as it is the largest organ in the body. could do with figures, symbols and Braille.
    3. She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4.Through posters and 60 different signs your family could express what I wanted, using his hands.
    5. She became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums
    6. because she had lost her sight and knew what was helen and mechanisms to help her communicate.
    7.Because it was water that might be related to Sullivan helen the word with its meaning, which represented, in this case the teacher helen put water in her hand and wrote the word water, so onwards helen always asked to write on your hand to know what word he meant.
    8. Sullivan teacher's words hit him in the hand of helen and helen could also understand what they talked about putting your fingers on the lips of those who did.
    9.Writing a book about his life.
    10. 50 years.
    11. Around 88 years. As she born in 1880 and died in 1968.

    Leidy Lorena Martínez ;)

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  4. 1. she would a had a fever which caused her to become deaf and blind.
    2. I would use other sense with the touch for learn
    3. she would use the hands for touch the face and the clothes of the persons
    4. She would use signs with her hands so she could "talk" to her family.

    kelly fernandez =)

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  5. carlos andres velez cadavid

    1.Then she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind
    2.when i do the exercice of put my hands on my eyes and then on my ears,i think that it would be very difficult admit the situation and can communicate so much,maybe i would learn to communicate whit the same methods but i would need a lots assistance
    3.she recognise people through their clothes
    4.firsly her lenguage was through signs
    5 Helen began to have tantrum and suddenly became very angry, it appeared a stress buster
    6.Anne had been blind some years before for what that she knew how teach her
    7. she found the water event so crucial for develophing her apprenticeship because of she can materialice the words and understood the general communication
    8.she can do it beacause her eventually teacher was ever there with
    9 she wrote a book , she was very intelligent

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  6. 1. she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind.
    2. i don´t know, but maybe with tact.
    3. She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4. Helen would able to "talk" to her family, with diferents 60 signs.
    5. She would became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums, because she could not talke.
    6. Miss Sullivan was able relate to Helen, because she teache to Helen the letters and alphabe, when Helen learned this, she was able to comunication.
    7. because miss Sullivan unlocked the world for Helen.


    Felipe Betancur Villgas

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    1. 8. Anne went with her and tapped out the words of the instructors into her student's hand.
      9. Helen wrote a book "the story of my life", with this she got a money for buy the house.
      10. 50 years
      11. 88 years

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  7. 1. she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind
    2. i would try of to use my other senses as touch, smell and taste; because it acute with the absence of other. Then would have more sensitivity.
    3. She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4. She made up signs with her hands so she
    could "talk" to her family.
    5.She became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums.
    6. Because Miss Sullivan herself had been blind, but had an operation and regained her sigh.
    7.Because when Anne Sullivan poured water on Helen, after of many attempts, she could understand that it meant "water" and with it Helen begin to recognize the thigs then her teacher would write on her hand.
    8. Helen could go at the college because Anne Sullivan went with her and tapped out the words of the instructors into her student's hand.
    9. While she was in college she wrote her book called "The Story of My Life". With the money she earned from the book she was able to buy a house.
    10. The most important person in her life was Anne Sullivan who stayed with her for 50 years.
    Alejandra Velásquez

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  8. 1. The high fever.
    2. I could learn by the use of Braile, and i could write.
    3. She used to touch the face of people, also she would feel the clothes of people.
    4. She invented different signs, and she represented it with her hands. She had sixty signs.
    5. She would go to the floor, and throw tantrums.
    6. Because she was blind too, but after a medical treatment she could to see again. She felt the same that hellen, so she could teach to hellen.
    7. Because it was a direct relation between the object and the word that the teacher could to sign in hellen´s hand.
    8. She went to college with her own teacher, and she help to hellen by the transmission of ideas signing in hellen´s hand.
    9. She wrote book about her life, and then she put it in sale.
    10. They were together about fifty years.

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  9. answer
    1) Helen keller to become blind and deaf for a higt fever
    2)I will learn to value more the senses, also is separated from the around world
    3)helen recognize peoples by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4)she communicated with her family signs with her hands
    5)helen demonstrate her frustration because she couldn't talk.
    6)because Miss Sullivan herself had been blind, but had an operation and regained her sight. She understood what Helen was feeling
    7)because Anne would spell the words in her hand. that was very very good for could communicated
    8)her teacher anne

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    1. 9)she wrote a book telling his life story
      10)Helen and her teacher remain together for 50 years
      11)Around 88 years.

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  10. 1.she came to acquire fever which came to become blind and deaf
    2.The language of the deaf is by touch and make sense of smell
    3.Hellen could recognize people by means of the senses and direct contact
    4.She had signs and body expressions to express with his family
    5. Anger and frustration felt and expressed with tantrums.
    6. Well Because anne and hellen were blind
    7. learned to relate the material to the word
    8. Anne and helen allowed to communicate with the university and opens the possibility of acquiring tools that will allow developing great skills
    9. money raised from the sale of his book story of my life allowed the construction of the home while at first this was not so successful then it was a bestseller.
    10. Good friends had a good relationship for 50 years since college until age long.
    11. The heroin Hellen Keller lived to age 88 being honored with national awards.

    Thanks you and I could be learn more and I can ....


    Miguel ..."Totto"
    mmmmmmm more more more more ....

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  11. 1. helen had a high fever when she had 19 months old
    2. i don't know, maybe i would touch the objects and i could exsperience the diferent textures around me.
    3. She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.
    4. she would mimic the actions or object what she would want
    5. she would throw temper tantrums.
    6. because Anne Sullivan kwen how helen felt and Anne would teach her to speak wiht the hands and teach the objects
    7. because water was the firts word that she recognized
    8. Anne would go whith helen and Anne write the class in th hands of helen
    9. she write a book about her life
    10. helen and anne remain together 50 years
    11. helen lived 88 years

    Ana Maria Quintero Salinas

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  12. 1. Helen became deaf and blind because a high fever.
    2. I would not know, would be very frustating.
    3. Helen could recognize people by touching their faces or clothes.
    4. she could communicate whit his family when he learned to communicate with their hands and feeling the waves of the throat learned imitate the sounds.
    5. Hellen showed her frustation with tantrums
    6. Because Miss Sullivan had blinded before, and Hellen reminded him of his brother.
    9. she could buy a house because writing a book telling his story and earned money with the
    10. 50 years
    11 she lived for 87 years

    ASTRID GIRALDO

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  13. 1. When she had a strong fever
    2.if this happen to me, really i would feel very, very VERY sad, an then i start to think that my only way to leran was de sense of touch
    3.whit her hands, she touch the face of the people who she wants to recognize
    4. She makes diferents sings using all of her body and the family knows how to interpretate that
    5.she start to feel much angry and later, she makes a lot of tantrums
    6.Anne Sullivan knows how Helen feel, because she pass for the same in other time
    7.Cuz in this crucial moment, helen learn how to comunicate not only with Miss Sullivan, also with the all people. Anne taughts helen how to make the leters of the alphabet in the hands of the people and with this form Helen speaks
    8.Because, Anne Sullivan translate the words that the teacher speak in class to her hand
    9. Traveling around the world telling her life to the people in diferent countries, writing a book
    10. fifty years
    11.Helen life 88 years

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  14. For: Kenny Daniel Mejía Gaviria

    HELEN KELLER

    1.Helen Keller had a high fever that caused her to become deaf and blind.

    2.This situation would be very complicated for me. I cannot imagine like learning anything. Is more complicated because I've always had the sense of sight and ear. Surely being in that situation I would be very frustrated to continue with my life.

    3.She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.

    4.To communicate with her family, Helen made signs With Her Hands up. She had 60 different signs.

    5.She became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums.

    6.Anne Sullivan had been blind, but she had an operation and regained his sight. For this reason she understood what Helen felt and needed.

    7.Because with the experience that Helen had with the water, Anne Sullivan found a way that Helen understood the meaning of words.

    8.When Helen went to college, Anne Sullivan went with her. Anne tapped out the words that of the teachers into Helen's hand.

    9.While Helen was in college, She wrote a book called "The story of my life". With the money she earned from book She bought a house.

    10.Anne Sullivan stayed with Helen Keller for 50 years.

    11.Helen died when he was 88 years old.

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  15. 1)she got scarlet fever at 1a months of lives
    2)it would be very difficult but it would have to be tactically by touching and doing, learning of the mistakes
    3)she recognized them by touching their face
    4) using hand signals to her hand
    5)she would throw temper tantrums
    6)Anne was blind and knew how it was like to have an impairment
    7-8)it was water, when the water was running through her hand she connect the two and her vocabulary expanded
    9)she wrote a book about her life and used the money
    10) Helen and Anne remained together for 50 years
    11)Helen Keller lived till 88 years
    SEBASTIAN ECHEVERRI PARRA :)

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  16. JOHANNA ANDREA MARTINEZ VILLA

    1) Helen fever and would stay so blind and deaf
    2) lack any sense when the others become more acute, more would use touch and smell.
    3) she recognized the people because they played their faces and clothes
    4) she had many signs with his hands and he understood that the family
    5) showed his frustration by helen tantrums.
    6) because Anne had been blind before, so understood to helen.
    7) because the water began to relate all the things outside, so he began to recognize the world.
    8) Helen attended college because Sullivan was beating her and the words of the instructors
    9) He wrote a book called "The Story of My Life" and with that money earned
    10) were together 50 years
    11) lived about 88 years

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  17. 1. helen keller was normal but suffered an illness that left ner blind
    2. is very difficut and very hard so you can learn is by using the sense of touch and go from there
    3.knew the people by touch
    4.ellen comunicated using gestures , his family understound it
    5.helen showed frustration with many out bursts of anger and tamtrums
    6.anne sullivan was blind for a while and was teacher of disabled
    7.bacause he realize he could learn wards , and that things had name
    8. helen went to the university , because anne accompanied and strik the words in your hand
    9. hellen wrote a book and make a lot of money
    10. helen and anne sullivan were together 50 years
    11. helen born in 1880 and died in 1986 lived 88 years

    JUAN GUILLEMO CARABALLO

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  18. Andres Camilo Castrillon Agudelo


    1-she had a high fever which caused her to become deaf and blind
    2.The language of the deaf is by touch and make sense of smell
    3. She used to touch the face of people, also she would feel the clothes of people.
    4.firsly her lenguage was through signs
    5. She became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums
    6. because, anne sullivan would blind
    7. Because it was a direct relation between the object and the word that the teacher could to sign in hellen´s hand.
    8.When Helen went to college, Anne Sullivan went with her. Anne tapped out the words that of the teachers into Helen's hand.
    9 she wrote a book , she was very intelligent
    10. The most important person in her life was Anne Sullivan who stayed with her for 50 years.

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  19. 5 Helen began to have tantrum and suddenly became very angry, it appeared a stress buster
    6. Anne was blind and knew how it was like to have an impairment.
    7. because miss Sullivan unlocked the world for Helen.
    8. helen went to the university , because anne accompanied and strik the words in your hand
    9. She wrote book about her life, and she put it in sale
    10. 50 years

    kelly fernandez garay

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  20. 1) A terrible malady (a high fever which caused her became deaf and blind.
    2) This is a story of admiration but anything is possible even for me learn English ...
    3) By the sense of touch, touching their faces and clothing.
    4) Making posters and sings.
    5) Through an exhaust leak at his impotence, became irascible.
    6) Because I teach them to obey.
    7) Was the source of his inspiration, there discovered another world
    8) was a total genius, easy to learn and had a good memory.
    9) Publishing a book called "The Story of My Life".
    10)50 years .
    11)lived 88 years.

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  21. 1. a strange sickness that made her completely blind and deaf.
    2. so very difficult, i don´t know it is incredible.
    3. touching the faces.
    4. feeling the water in his hands.
    4. making simple signs whith her hands.
    5. She was very angry and began to have many rages
    6.
    8. Sullivan teach words in the hand of helen and helen could also understand what
    9.she wrote a book about her life
    10. 50 years.
    11. 88 years

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  22. Hugo Andres Gomeza
    1. When Helen was a child, she became very sick .It was a strange sickness that made her completely blind and deaf.
    2. I could learn with the touch, because is the only way to learn without view and listening.
    3.Helen could recognize put yours hands over your ears.
    4.Helen could communicate only by making signs with her hands.
    5. She screamed and struggled when her mother tried to control her.
    6. For this, she wrote to friends in Boston about her experiences teaching Helen.
    7.Because, Helen looked straight up at the sky as if a lost memory or thought of some kind was coming back to her.
    8. her teacher Anne went with her and tapped out the words of the instructors into helen's hand.
    9. with the money, for the sell of her book "the story of my life".
    10. helen and anne remain together 50 years
    11. helen keller lived 88 years

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  23. 1. The caused of blind and deaf of Helen was because she had a high fever when was baby

    2. This situation could be very complicated for me; because for me is very important sight for my learn, but can develop other senses, like to have more sensitivity

    3. She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clothes.

    4. She made up signs with her hands so she could "talk" to her family

    5. She became very unhappy and began to change of temperament

    6. Anne Sullivan had been blind, but she had an operation and regained his sight. For this reason she understood what Helen felt and needed.

    7.Because it was a direct relation between the object and the word that the teacher could to sign in hellen´s hand.

    8. She went to college with her own teacher, and she help to hellen by the transmission of ideas signing in hellen´s hand.

    9. With her book "The Story of My Life" won the money for buy the house

    10. 50 years

    MARIA MERCEDES VASQUEZ OSSA

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