Learn English meaning of colorblind

Date: Mar 20 2017

Intro

Do you know someone who is colorblind? A colorblind person cannot see all shades of color. Their vision is different. Sometimes, they cannot see one color. But for some people, being colorblind means not seeing any color. For example, traffic signals might look gray. They might need to memorize the different types of gray.

Often, color blindness is hereditary. People in the same family might have similar types of color blindness.

Vocab

traffic signal n.

Definition

Example The traffic signal is broken, so drive carefully in the intersection.

vision n.

Definition

Example My parents don't have good vision, but I do!

hereditary adj.

Definition

Example Red hair is hereditary in our family.

memorize v.

Definition

Example When learning English, there are some words you just have to memorize.

shade n.

Definition

Example Which shade of blue is your favorite, the light one or the dark one?

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Discussion

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Are you colorblind? Can you imagine the world without color?

Comments

Ugur_Tekeli

Turkey

i’m not colorblind too.

if we were colorblind, we wasnt’t going to see amazing colors of this world. thanks god :)

mahtab49

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

This lesson reminds me a movie that all people were colorblind and everything was black , white and shades of gray but when a man or woman fell in love world became colorful for him or her!

Can we love anything with no color? 😏

Thank God for the colors of my life😊