VIP Class Notes (Celeste) [R]

Write a short article about your friend and try to use some of the vocabulary below. 

Girl Draws With Mouth

Creating beautiful art in a very different way. Sixteen-year-old Robaba Mohammadi was born with partial paralysis of her limbs, but hasn’t let that stop her drawing.

Instead of sketching with her, fingers she uses her mouth. And its given her a great deal of strength.

Robaba says before she started drawing she was so depressed and cried at least two or three times a day. In Afghanistan, disability is often perceived as a weakness.

Not for Robaba, though. She started drawing two years ago and now has lofty goals. The teenager says her dream is to hold an art exhibition in the Aga Khan Museum, one of Canada’s biggest museums, and she’s asking people to help her achieve that.

Maybe Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will take notice and help speed up the process.

Difficult words: perceive (see something in a certain way), lofty (big).

Pronunciation

 short i – lip, limp, limb, him, hip, tin, hit, lit, literature, literal, river, exhibition

museum ( mew – Zee – um )

ph (f) – phone, physical

cancel vs. cancer ( kan – sir )

Vocabulary

I am very thankful for sb
eg. I am very thankful for my parents because I don’t have any physical disabilities.

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disability/disabilities – noun
disabled ( diss – ei bulld ) – adj
eg. So many people aren’t disabled but many have mental diseases. 

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spread / spreading / spread v. – to grow or get bigger or move throughout
eg. The cancer spread throughout his whole body.
eg. I like to spread butter on my toast.

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disperse / dispersing / dispersed (-t) v. – to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something do this

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I don’t mind if he can’t pay me back / I don’t mind if he can’t repay me