In the next chapter we will talk about people overcoming obstacles. For example, an athlete winning a gold medal at the Olympics after an injury or illness.
Look at the different obstacles below then answer one of the questions in the comments.
illness, injury, discrimination, learning disability, lack of money, shyness, physical or mental disability
1. Which one of the obstacles would be the most difficult to overcome? Why?
2. Do you know anyone who has faced one of these obstacles? Did they overcome the obstacle?
3. What other kinds of obstacles do people face?
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1 illness
ReplyDeleteWhen you become illness,your body will be weaker than before.
2 I khow a cycle racer who had a serious cancer, but he overcame his obstacle. Finally, he won the race! (I am sorry, I forgot his name.)
3 lose someone whom you love
Aya Akatsuka
I think shyness is the most difficult to overcome because I'm shy and not good at communicationing with other people, and I can't overcome the obstacle.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, but I have seen the movie,"Rain Man". In the movie, the hero's brother has autism.
I think people, especialy young, face identity crisis.
Kota
1. I think discrimination is the most difficult obstacle to overcome. it's hard to overcome a discrimination by oneself. so, we need to gather many people to protest about discrimination.
ReplyDeletesejeong Mun
1 I think discrimination is the most difficult obstacle to overcome, because we can never control feelings of others.
ReplyDeleteAnd even if we have disability or illness, we can feel happy when we are loved by others.
2 Martin Luther King Jr. fought against racial discrimination. He held a demonstration with people who were suffering from discrimination. He was killed by someone during his movement, but his activity contributed to our overcoming discrimination.
3 I think identity crisis is the obstacle most people would face,too. Sometimes people lose confidence and the significance of existence.
Lina
1 physical or mental disability
ReplyDeleteIf we have such disabilities, we cannot behave like others do and perhaps we cannot live without someone's help. But however hard we wish to overcome the difficulity, our body or spirit do not necessarily recover as we hope. So I think this is the most difficult obstacle to overcome.
2 A few years ago one of my friends in high school broke her leg when she was playing in the park. She was a member of the dance team where I belonged, so I was anxious if she could dance with us again. But she recovered from it and we could dance together again.
3 I think the death of people who are near to us is the other kind of obstacle people would face.
Narumi
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ReplyDeleteOne person I know who overcame the obstacle, injury is Chris Moon. When he was working for clearing land mines in Cambodia, he lost both his right leg and right arm. But one year later, he competed in London Marathon with his artificial leg. He run full marathon!! So I think he overcame the obstacle.
Natsuko
Ototake Hirotada has phisical disability. Although he was born without both arms and both legs, he has made much efforts and graduated from university. He has even worked as a caster and teacher. I think he overcame his disability.
ReplyDeleteEna
3. Another obstacle people face is lack of luck. When people want to achieve something great, it necessary to watch times, the stream. Without luck, nothing could be done, I think.
ReplyDeleteMei
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ReplyDeleteI think that discrimination would be the most difficult to overcome.
Once people are discriminated by others, they could not act as they like.
Even if they try something hardly, they could not be understood properly.
While other obstacles can be disappeared, it is difficult to discrimination completely by ourselves.
Miyako
1. I think discrimination is the most difficult obstacle to overcome because we cannot overcome the obstacle without other people's cooperation.
ReplyDelete2. I have seen many athletes who overcome various obstacles. They are often injured when they take part in sports, but they overcome the injury with a lot of effort.
3. I think the death of people who are close to us is the obstacle which we face.
2.I have read a book written by one race car driver who recoverd from a big accident. He was burned so heavily when his car exploded and almost died,and experienced many hard time.But he overcame them and recoverd. Now he works as a sports journalist.
ReplyDeleteMasahiro
I wrote the above comment.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to write my name.
Misato
1.I think discrimination is the most difficult obstacle to overcome, because it is caused by many people.
ReplyDelete2.Beethoven overcame the disability of his eye and made many great works.
3.People can face many obstacles when they love other people.For example, rivals in love.
Yoshiyasu
1.I think illness is the most difficult to overcome,because you don't know how it comes and when it goes.
ReplyDelete2.Roger Federer,my favorite tennis player,was influenced by a illness called Infectious mononucleosis in 2008.He lost the world NO.1 title.But he got over it and got back the world NO.1.
3.I think the unfair competitive environment is a obstacle for us.
YAO
1.I think illness is the most difficult to overcome because even if you have hope to do something or have enough money, it would disturb you.
ReplyDelete2.I know one composer who sufferd from physical disability. He suddenly got difficulty in seeing and hearing. Inspite of his obstacles, he succeed in composing a lot of classical music.
3.People face physical or mental violence.
Yu