bai 4. special education

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Saturday, October 20th,2007

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Before you read

Look at the Braille Alphabet in the text book (page 44) and

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vocabulary

 Disabled (adj): tàn tật

 Dump (adj) : câm (not being able to

speak)

 deaf (adj) : điếc ( not being able to hear)

 Blind (adj) : mù (not being able to see)

 Proper schooling) :enough and good

study: học hành đầy đủ

 Opposition (n): disagreeing viewpoints : ý

kiến phản đối

 Make effort (v); try : nỗ lực, cố gắng

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While you readTask 1: matching A 1.disabled 2 mentally retarded 3.time-consuming 4.demonstation 5 gradually B 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

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Task 2

read the passage again and choose the best answers

 1 Thuy’s class is different from other

classes because the children ………

 A are from large family

 B are less mentally developed

 C love Maths very much

 D are disable

 2 At first the parents were………the

idea of sending their children to the special class.

 A interested in B satisfied with

 B opposed to D worried about

D

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3 It can be inferred from the second paragraph of

the reading passage that there has been………

 A a change in the parents’ attitude toward 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

A

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After you read

 Read the passage again and answer

these questions

 1.why couldn’t the parents give their

disabled children an education?

 2 why did the parents oppose the

idea of sending their children to the special class at first?

 3.in what way Thuy teach the

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Suggested answers

 1.because most of them come from large

and poor family, which prevents them from having proper schooling

 2 Because they used to believed that

their children could not learn anything at all.

 3.she raised both arms and open up her

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Home work