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12 pairs of legs Part 1
I would like to write about the topic we talked with which Brett and I talked about during at our last session. We actually watched a video at Ted.com by Aimee Mullins that called “12 pairs of legs”. I want to retell this story because I suppose that by retelling something in English with your own words helps you improve your speaking ability greatly/substantually.
A little bit of information about the speaker from Wikipedia: Aimee Mullins (born July 20, 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress and fashion model who first became famous for her athletic accomplishments. She was born with a medical condition (missing fibula bones) that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs below the knee at the age of one year. She has also become one of the most prominent thinkers on the topic of prosthetic innovation.
In this video Aimee tells us about her a meeting she had with approximately 300 kids/children, ages 6-8, once at a children’s museum. She brought with her a bag of her artificial legs and put them all out on a the table. She asked the adults that came with the kids not to enter the room for some a few minutes so that she could to speak with the children kids (so as not to keep repeating "kids") not being without them being inhibited by the presence of afraid of rebuking from their teachers and parents. Aimee knew that kids are usually naturally curious and They like to explore everything that they are not familiar with. everything they don’t know. (this part is redundant and therefore unnecessary) And really kind They initially rushed into the room, descending on this to the table of legs, and began to poke, to prod, to wiggle toes to and put their full weight on the sprinting legs to see what would happens. Then Aimee then asked the children to help her to dream up think of an animal or a character whose legs she could use have used to jump over a two or three-story house.
Without waiting for a moment the kids They immediately suggested to her a lot of many possible things such as like a kangaroo, a frog and several different cartoon and movie superheroes.
The purpose of this meeting was to give the kids an opportunity to look at Aimee and be able to see her as "super-abled" but not rather than “disabled” as they have been usually traditionally been trained to consider this type of person by adults.
Thank you for your attention. In the near future I’m will retelling the next part of Aimee’s story.
Well done Tanya! Most of my corrections are minor and just help to make your post sound more natural to a native speaker. Keep up your good work!
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