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Skills
Listening

Instructions Listen to the conversation and mark the sentences True or False.

 
 
1. Louis Braille was born blind*.
T
F
2. Louis invented a new writing system.
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F
3. Louis had an accident we he was young.
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F
4. Louis became a teacher in 1829.
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F
5. Louis' father was a soldier.
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F
6. Louis died when he was 43 years old.
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F



*Vocabulary: if you are blind, it means you can't see.

Louis Braille was born in France in 1809. He was the son of a leather worker. When he was three years old, he fell in his father's workroom and went blind. Louis was very intelligent. He could play the cello, but he couldn't read or write. In 1819, a French soldier invented a special kind of writing using dots so that soldiers could read at night. When Louis was 15, he began to work in this invention, and in 1829 he started to teach it to other blind people. Louis Braille died in 1852 and he never knew the importance of his invention. By 1932 the Braille writing system was in use all over the world.