Презентация - "Презентация по английскому языку на тему "Не сдавайся! (2)" (9 класс)"

Never Give up! – 2
Do you know this person? What challenges do you think he has to face?








Tom Conaway found himself facing extremely difficult challenges – but he refused to give up!

It’s five thirty in the morning and fifteen-year-old Tom Conaway is sitting perfectly still in the wetlands of California waiting for some wildlife to come into sight. Before long, thousands of birds squawking noisily and Tom is lucky enough to be able to film them up close in their natural habitat. But what makes Tom different from many other wannabe film-maker?
When Tom Conaway was only four years old, the car that he was travelling in rolled down a mountain. He was thrown out of the window and his spine was seriously bruised.
squawk – пронзительно кричать
wannabe - подражатель
roll down - скатываться
to be bruised – получить ушиб

Since then, his brain hasn’t been able to send messages to parts of his body to tell them to move. But Tom doesn’t waste any time feeling sorry for himself. ‘ I’ll be in a wheelchair the rest of my life’, he says, ‘but I consider myself lucky’. Really. I mean, I survived a horrible accident with no brain damage at all’.
One afternoon, about two years after the accident, Tom’s dad realised that filming was a hobby that the two of them could really share. So, Doug Conaway strapped a camera to Tom’s chair so that he could film his brother’s football game.
wheelchair – инвалидное кресло
survive - выживать
realise - обнаруживать
filming – снимать на пленку
strap - прикреплять ремнем

Now, Tom either uses a ‘helmet camera’ to film, or his dad sets up a camera on a tripod and Tom controls it by wireless remote control while watching the camera view on the screen of the DVD player on his knee. Tom even sees his disability as a secret power when he is filming. The fact that it is so ‘easy’ for him to sit still means that he can film animals without scaring them off!
Tom’s positive attitude is amazing. ‘Everyone has bumps in the road that they have to deal with’, he says. ‘That’s all being in a wheelchair is for me: just a little bump in the road’.
tripod - штатив
wireless remote control – беспроводной
пульт управления
disability - инвалидность
scare off – отпугивать

Mark the sentences 1-9 T (True), F (False) or NS (Not stated). Correct the false sentences.
1. Tom can’t move his arms or legs.
2. Tom’s dad has always loved film making.
3. Tom’s dad controls the camera for him.
4. Tom believes that his disability gives him an advantage when filming.


Find opposites to these words/phrases:
1) moving a) natural
2) quietly b) close
3) artificial c) noisily
4) from a distance d) sitting still

Match the words/phrases in bold to their meaning.
perfectly still come into sight deal with
before long realise scaring them off
1. frightening them away 2. face
3. without moving at all 4. soon
5. understand 6. appear
Fill in: brain, seriously, experience, survive, feel.
1) to _____ a disaster
2) _____ bruised
3) to _____ sorry for somebody
4) _____ damage
5) to _____ an accident