A) Scan the text quickly and find out: Where did Nathan have an accident? What are the Paralympic Games? Nathan Stephens was born in a village in Wales 1993.1th April 1988. As a little boy Nathan loved sport. He started school in 1993. At school he played football, and in his free time he learned to ride. He loved animals. "When I grow up," he said. "I'm going to work with animals." For his ninth birthday Nathan asked his parents for a pair of riding boota and a new riding hat. He was really excited when he came down to breakfast on 11th April 1997, and there they were. After school that day some cousins and friends came to tea. It was a sunny spring day, so after tea the boys asked if they could go to the old railway line to play. Trains didn't go there anymore, so it was a favourite place for kids to play. "Stay away from the new railway line where the trains are," called Nathan's mum as they ran outside. Nathan remembers that afternoon. "Our parents always said to us: 'Don't go near the new railway line.' But I saw this slow train and I tried to jump onto it. I fell ... under the train. I lost both my legs." "A doctor and paramedics were already there when I arrived," says Nathan's mum. "All he said to me as they put him in the ambulance was, 'Sorry, Mum'." Three months later, in July 1997, Nathan learned to walk again, this time with artificial legs. And soon after that he was back at school! "Yes, Nathan has lost his legs, but he's still mad about sport," his mum said a few months later. "He still goes riding. And he plays football at school: he sits in the goal and stops the ball." When he was ten years old, Nathan started to play sledge hockey ice hockey for the disabled. When Nathan was sixteen, in April 2004, he represented Great Britain at the World Sledge Hockey Championships the youngest player. he was sledge hockey At 14. Nathan also started to do athletics in summer. A year later he won three gold medals atollwealth Gamettish Championships. In 2006 he was in thre Melbourne Common the Paralympic and then in the Winter Paralympics in Turin. He competed at the Paralymple Games in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. b) Complete the notes about the text. Nathan was born in ... on As a little boy he played... and he learned to... On his ninth birthday he went to play at ... There he tried to ... But he fell and... Nathan learned to walk again after But he was still... The sport that he started when he was ten:... He won his first athletics medals when he was ... He has competed in ... Nathan hopes.... c) Work with a partner. Partner A: ask your partner about Nathan's earlier life. 1 Where and when was Nathan born? 2 What sports did he do as a little boy? 3 Where did he go on his ninth birthday? 4 What happened? Partner B: ask your partner about Nathan's later life. 1 When did Nathan learn to walk again? 2 What sport did he start when he was ten? 3 What did he win at the Junior British Championships? 4 What is he doing now? d) Copy and complete this timeline with your partner. What did Nathan do after 2012? Find out with the help of the Internet. Nathan born 1988 1993 1997 1998 2002 2004 2006 2008 2012 After 2012