Unit 4: Special Education (reading)

TO OUR CLASS 10 2008 Look at the pictures and answer the questions Can they see? No, they can’t What you call the people who can not see? The blind copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Can she speak? No, she can’t What you call the people who can dumb not speak? The copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com What are they doing? They are talking How they talk? They use their hands Why they have to use their hands? Because they can not hear What you call the people who can not hear? The deaf What you call the people who can not see, They are disabled ones speak or hear? copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Look at the activities Which ones you think would be difficult for blind, deaf and dumb students? Activities Listen to teachers Deaf Dumb Blind X Pronounce words Raise hands X X Play tennis X Look at the blackboard X copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Unit Special Education Reading Look at the Braille Alphabet then work out the message that follows We are the world a teacher in a special class copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Like others teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job However, her class is different from other classes The twenty-five chidren, who are learning how to read and write in her class, are disabled Some are deaf, some dumb and others mentally retarded Most of the children come from large and poor families, which prevents them from having proper schooling At first, there was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled children They used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all In the first week, only five children attended the class Gradually more children arrived Their parents realised that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how time-consuming the work is During a maths lesson, she raised both arms and opened up her fingers one by one until all ten stood up She then closed the fingers one by one She continued the demonstration until the children realised they had just learn how to add and subtract The children have every reason to be proud of their efforts They know a new world is opening up for them copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Vocabularies disabled (adj) khuyết tậtt tậtt Gradually (adv) mentally retarded (adj) thiểu time-consuming (adj) tốn thời gian demonstration (n) cách diễn đạt phản đối phản đối nỗ lực cản trở to be oppose to opposition (n) make great efforts (v) prevent … from + V-ing copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 10 Task 1: Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B A disabled mentally retarded time-consuming demonstration gradually B a Taking or needing a lot of time b An act of showing or explaining how to st 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 copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 11 Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D 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 D are disabled At first the parents were the idea of sending their children to the special class A Interested in C satisfied with B D worried about B Opposed to copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 12 Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been A 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 parents’ opposition copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 13 Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in orfer to prove that A The children like Maths B The teacher is proud of her work C The teaching work takes time C D Adding and subtracting are important The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as _ A humorous B angry C suspicious D D admiring copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 14 After you read Work in groups of four and summarize the reading passage copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 15 Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the reading passage disabled Twenty five(1) children have the chance of read write learning how to(2) and(3) thanks to efforts the(4) of a young teacher,Pham Thu Thuy Although her idea, at first, met with(5) from opposition the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later The teaching work in the special class is(6) For example, in time-consuming the a(7) lesson, teacher has to use her(8) and(9) to teach the children how Maths to add subtract The children are fingers arms and now(10) and happy proud copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 16 CONSOLIDATION Look at these pictures They are in class They are disabled They are children learning/ writing copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Where are they? WhatWho are are theythey? doing? 18 Homework copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 19 •Review the vocabulary and exercise •Retell the special class by heart •Make the sentences with : disabled children, make efforts, proud of … copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com 20 ... copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com Unit Special Education Reading Look at the Braille Alphabet then work out the message that follows We are the world a teacher in a special class copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com... very much D D are disabled At first the parents were the idea of sending their children to the special class A Interested in C satisfied with B D worried about B Opposed to copyright 2006 www.brainybetty.com... parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later The teaching work in the special class is(6) For example, in time-consuming the a(7) lesson, teacher has to use her(8)