GATA 10

Created by : Doan Thi Thu Huong
The phrase contains 2 words having 13 letters
All 2 words begin with the letter “S”
This is the place where students who can’t hear, speak, see… learn
Before you read:
1.1. Listen to the passage
1.2. New words:
- Blind (adj): can’t see
- Deaf (adj): can’t hear
- Dumb (adj): can’t speak
- Disabled (adj): can’t use a part of the body in the normal way
- Mentally retarded (adj P): less developed in brain than normal
- Time- consuming (n): needing a lot of time
- Demonstration (n): showing or explaining how to do something
- Gradually (adv): steps by steps
2. While you read:
2.1. Task 1: Translate the above words into Vietnamese:
Blind (adj): can’t see
Deaf (adj): can’t hear
Dumb (adj): can’t speak
Disabled (adj): can’t use a part of the body in the normal way
Mentally retarded (adj P): less developed in brain than normal
Time- consuming (n): needing a lot of time
Demonstration (n): showing or explaing how to do something
Gradually (adv): steps by steps

2.1. Task 1: Translate the above words into Vietnamese:
Blind (adj): mù
Deaf (adj) :điếc
Dumb (adj): câm
Disabled (adj): tàn tật
Mentally retarded (adj P): thiểu năng trí tuệ
Time- consuming (n): tốn thời gian
Demonstration (n): sự thể hiện, giảng giải
Gradually (adv): dần dần
2.2. Task 2: Choose the best answer for the following sentences
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
D. are disabled
2. At first the parents were….the idea of sending their children to the special class.
A. interested in
B. opposed to
C. satisfied with
D. worried about

2.2. Task 2: Choose the best answer for the following sentences
B. opposed to

2.2. Task 2: Choose the best answer for the following sentences
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
A. a change in the parents’ attitude towards the class
2.2. Task 2: Choose the best answer for the following sentences
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
C. the teaching work takes time
2.2. Task 2: Choose the best answer for the following sentences
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as…
A. humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring
D. admiring
3. After you read: Fill each blank with a suitable word
Twenty- five … children have the chance of learning how to… and… thanks to the …of a young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with… from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later. The teaching work in the special class is…. For example, in a … lesson, the teacher has to use her … and … to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now … and happy.
Proud 2. opposition 3. fingers 4. Maths 5. read
6. Efforts 7. time- consuming 8. disabled 9. write 10.arms
Twenty- five disabled children have the chance of learning how to read and write thanks to the efforts of a young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with opposition from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later. The teaching work in the special class is time- consuming. For example, in a Maths lesson, the teacher has to use her arms and fingers to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now proud and happy.