Do you know the story of Helen Keller, who 1. ____________________________________________________________________________  (ei pystynyt näkemään eikä kuulemaan)? Still she 2. _________________________________________________________________________________________(kykeni voittamaan) all handicaps.

When she was born, there was nothing wrong with Helen Keller. She 3. ____________________________________________ (osasi kävellä) when she was 12 months old and she 4. __________________________________________________________(osasi puhua) a little. But one day she fell ill and the illness was so severe that it turned out that she 5. _________________________________________________________________________________________(ei koskaan pystyisi näkemään tai kuulemaan).

Helen was condemned to a life of silence and darkness. She 6. _________________________________________________________(ei pystynyt kuulemaan) what was said to her, 7. __________________________________________________________________________________________________(ei osannut puhua) so she
8. ________________________________________________________________________________________________(ei kyennyt leikkimään) with others.

When she was six years old Helen was taken to see famous doctors to learn if they 9. ___________________________________________________________________(pystyisivät tekemään) something to help Helen. But the doctors
10. _________________________________________________________________________________________________(eivät pystyneet tekemään mitään). The parents then asked an institution for the blind if they 11. ______________________________________________________________________(voisivat lähettää) someone to teach Helen.

Ann Sullivan arrived to take charge of the child who 12. ___________________________________________________________ (ei osannut puhua eikä kuulla). Ann found a way to make herself understood. Using hand language, Helen and Ann
13. __________________________________________________________________________________(kykenivät keskustelemaan) to each other. During the next few months, Helen
14. _______________________________________________________________________________(oli pystynyt oppimaan) to sign words and now she
15. could put(osasi laittaa) some of them into sentences.

At the age of ten Helen decided that she would learn to speak. At first she learned the sounds, but soon she
16. ______________________________________________________________________________(osasi sanoa) entire words and short sentences.

When she was twenty, Helen Keller was accepted to college. She did well and
17. ______________________________________________________________________________(kykeni pysyttelemään vauhdissa [= keep up]) with the other students. Later she started also lecturing and 18. ____________________________________________________(kykeni puhumaan) before large crowds. In her writings and lectures Helen 19. ____________________________________________________________________________________________(teki kaiken, minkä pystyi) to help and encourage others who were deaf and blind.