능률장 중3 3과 I’m Unique Because My Hearing Is Bad

by Tamika Catchings

1) different were hard for me when I have been young. (3)

2)  With two big hearing aids and a funny                      (말하는 방식), I was an easy kid to tease me. (1)

3) I looked funnily, and the other kids         never let me forgot it. (습관, 2)

4)“What’s wrong with her?” “Don’t talk to her!” “Why do you wear these funny thing?” they             say, pointed at my hearing aids and laughing. (습관, 3)

5) It was so embarrassed. I felt like I just couldn’t face it anymore. (1)

6) One day, on my way to home from school, I threw my hearing aids into a field.(1)

7) My mom made me going back and looking for it.(3)

8) But I have thrown it       far, and I never found it. (꽤,상당히 3)

9) My mom was very angry in me because of they were much expensive. (3)

10) After that, I musted live without those big hearing aids. (1)

11) So I decided doing things my way. (1) I prepared well before each classes and then sitting at the front of the classroom. (2)

12) There was two things that      me         those hard days(힘든시기를 이겨내게 해주다) : sports and my parents. When I was playing basketball, I never got teasing (1).

13) I could take my sadness and turn them into points and blocked shots.(1)

14) My family, which always came to watch my games, told me living like I played. (2)

15) It took me a while, but               I got to university, I understood that I had to accept different.(~할 무렵, 1)

16) I couldn’t change it, so I learned to appreciate it. After all, everyone are different in some way.(1)

17) I’m unique because my hearing is bad. But I’m also unique because I’m a good basketball player.

18) It’s                to decide if or not you will accept being different, and whether or not you will let yourself shining. (너에게 달려있어,  2)

Accept and Respect

[Reading 본문]

19) Every day in every school, kids                 for being different. (괴롭힘을 당한다)

20) They are misunderstood, left out, teased and even hitting.(1)

21)  It’s because something about them              (두드러지다, 눈에띄다).

22)  It could be the color of their skin, their size, or a disability.

23) In elementary and middle school, the pressure to            can get really bad. (~와 어울리다)

24) But you have to                        we are ALL different in one way or another.

(that 이하를 명심해야합니다.)

25) There is something about each one of us which are unique. (2)

26)     is our differences        makes this world a cool place to be.(구문, 1)

27) Can you imagine how the world will be boring if we are all the same?(3)

28) Imagine we all acting, thinking, dressing, sounding and to live just like one another. Ew! (2)

29) Do you want to help makes the world a better place?(1)

30) Learn about differences. The world would be a many better place if humans stop to tease each other about their differences and started appreciating what makes each person specially. (3)

31) Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.(시범삼아~하다)

32) If someone is                  somebody because they are different, stand up and say something.(~를 놀리다)

33) Lastly, help others opened their minds.(1)  It’s not easy to                                                someone.(~를 옹호하다. 지지하다)

34)  But it’s worth it, and you have the power to make a change.