1. What does ‘mobility’ mean in your profession?
2. What are characteristics of immobile people?
3. And what are the characteristics of mobile people?
4. How mobile are the people in the pictures? Explain.
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,A B C
2
, D E And what about
this lady?
Watch this video: Hero gives mobility, hope to disabled.
5. What is Richard’s definition of mobility?
6. In your job, what’s your contribution to making people more mobile?
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, Assignment 2: mock exam
You are going to practise with assignments similar to the exam at the end of this module. Take no more
than 30 minutes to do the assignments.
Instructions:
It is allowed to use hard copy dictionaries during this test.
There is one writing assignment in this test: question 8 page 2. This assignment will be assessed
with a rubric for writing. Write down the number of words you’ve used.
All other assignments are reading assignments. Answer open questions in English. Only English
answers will be marked by your assessor. However, writing skills will only be assessed in the
writing tasks mentioned above.
Text 1: What if a bionic leg is so good that someone chooses to
amputate?
Read the article on page 4.
1 1 pnt What becomes clear about Hugh Herr in paragraphs 1-4?
A Herr’s recovery was quick because he was well-trained.
B Herr has multiple prostheses because his body changed over the years.
C Herr makes prostheses himself.
2 1 pnt “a few competitors were threatening to cut off their own legs” (5)
Why would those competitors do that? (use no more than 15 words)
Because Herr has done climbs that no other climbers had done before,
wich is an amazing thing and the competitors probably got jealous.
3 1 pnt What is essentially vital in bringing feeling into the bionic leg, according to
paragraphs 7 and 8?
To make it feel like a real leg or even better.
4 1 pnt Why does the writer think Herr’s argument in paragraph 9 is weak?
A Because the prostheses to solve the problem are extremely expensive.
B Because Herr doesn’t elaborate on this point.
C Because most people will walk on normal prostheses anyway.
5 1 pnt ‘…adding solar panels to the cells’ (paragraph 13)
What body part had to be operated on to do this? The brain
6 1 pnt “Hugh Herr says he wants to eliminate disability” (par. 1)
Quote one sentence from the text in which the author states how Herr wants to
eliminate disabilities (multiple answers are possible). Zie alinea 10
3 pnt Which words from paragraphs 4-7 correspond with these descriptions below?
7 To increase the value by adding something
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