People with special needs

* You can help blind people feel more comfortable. Match the texts to the titles.

* You can see a blind person accompanied by a dog in the city street. Read the article below to know more about guide dogs. More about guide dogs A guide dog is a unique method of rehabilitation for a visually impaired person. Independence gained with guide dogs helps visually impaired people to find work, friends, hobbies, get an education and resolve day-to-day challenges. Dogs’ amazing abilities to remember routes that they walked and to find a way home have been noticed and used by people since a long time ago. Now the main task for a guide dog is to remember regular routes and take its visually impaired owner on them preventing him/her from being lost. Another task is to make such a route safe. Thanks to unique training methods a modern guide dog is very skilled. It is well adapted to work in a busy and noisy urban setting, where it takes its owner through crowded streets, protecting from collisions, warning of obstacles. During its training a dog is taught to take a person across roads, find stairs, a necessary door or a bench. Sometimes visually impaired people stay at home for years until they get a guide dog. What is the main purpose of a guide dog for a visually impaired person?

* Imagine you've met people with different disabilities in the city. Help them to find the right place. Arrange the street signs into groups of people with different needs.

** Nowadays there are more and more people with different disabilities in the city. Read the article to know more about their needs. Mark the statements as True or False according to the text.

** Imagine your friend with disabilities asked you to find out if he/she could get any help in the airport. Read the information for people with disabilities and choose the right option. "Information for PRM" means . The airport offers assistance to passengers with disabilities hours a day. The airport staff meet passengers with disabilities and assist them at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. When booking a flight, a passenger with has to indicate that he is a passenger with special needs. It is recommended to book the flight . A passenger with disabilities who booked the flight the airline to confirm that they are able to assist him.

** Help a disabled person to find the right way. Look at the Moscow Domodedovo airport scheme and choose the right answers.

** Imagine you have to train guide dogs. Choose the proper parts of the text. More about dogs A guide dog is a for a visually impaired person. Independence gained with a guide dog helps visually impaired people to find work, friends, hobbies, and resolve day-to-day challenges. Dogs’ amazing abilities to remember routes that they walked and to have been noticed and used by since a long time ago. Now the main task for a guide dog is to and take its visually impaired owner on them preventing him/her from being lost. Another task is .

** Imagine you are doing the presentation on the topic "People with special needs". Choose which text describes the poster better.

** Imagine you are doing the presentation on the topic "People with special needs". Choose which text describes the poster better.

*** You would like to help people with disabilities. Read the article to know more about how to help them. In your opinion, does the government of Moscow pay enough attention to people with special needs? Express your opinion and use 2-3 examples from the text. Remember to write your answer in complete sentences. Mind the evaluation criteria: 0 points — no answer or a logically unreasonable answer without any examples from the text. 1 point — a full, logical answer with 1 example from the text. 2 points — a full, logical answer with 2-3 examples from the text.