unit 4,reading,grade 10

WHO STUDIES IN THE SPECIAL CLASS The deaf The dumb disabled children The blind... Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children _______.. At first parents were _____

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UNIT 4 SPECIAL EDUCATION

Vocabulary

To prevent from (v.) ngăn cản

: sự phản đối

Opposition (unc.)

= try to do something

: nỗ lực, cố gắng

To make effort (v.)

= enough and good study

: học hành đầy đủ

Proper schooling (n)

To add (v.)

To subtract (v.)

to add : cộng

 to subtract : trừ

To prevent from : ngăn cản

= enough and good study : học hành đầy đủ

opposition (n) : sự phản đối

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= try to do something

proper schooling (n)

to make effort

: nỗ lực, cố gắng

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WHO STUDIES

IN THE SPECIAL CLASS

The deaf The dumb

disabled children The blind

Task 1: Match the words in A with their

meanings in B

A B

1.disabled

2.mentally

retarded

3.time-consuming

4 demonstration

5 gradually

a taking or needing a lot of time

b an act of showing or explaining how to do something

c unable to use a part of the body

in the normal way

d slowly, over a long period of time

e less mentally developed than normal

Task 2 Read the passage and choose the best option.

1 Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children _

A are from large families

B are less mentally developed

C love Maths very much

D are disabled

2 At first parents were _the idea of sending

their children to the special class

A interested in C satisfied with

B opposed to D worries about

3 It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the

reading passage that there has been _.

A a change in the parents’ attitude towards the class.

B a lot of protest from the parents against the class

C a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability

D a belief in the parents’ opposition

4.The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in order to prove that _

A the children like Maths

B the teacher is proud of her work

C the teaching work takes time

D adding and subtracting are important

5.The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as _

A humorous B angry C suspicious D admiring

Twenty five(1)………….children have the chance of learning how to(2)…… …and(3)…………thanks to the(4)……… of a young teacher , Pham Thu Thuy

Although her idea, at first met with (5) ………… from the parents of the disabled children , more

children attended her class later The teaching work in the special class is(6)……… For example,

in a (7)………lesson, the teacher has to use her (8)…………and (9)………… to teach the children

how to add and subtract The children are now (10)

……… and happy

Fill each of the blanks of a summary below

with a suitable word from the reading passage disabled read write

efforts

opposition

time-consuming Math

proud

Revise the lesson