Unit 4 - Reading - English 10

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Teacher: Hoang Binh Chau
Grade 10
Warm-up
Which ones would be difficult for the blind and deaf people?
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Questions
have breakfast
Daily activities
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go to school
play sports
read a book
go shopping
Who are they?
Where are they?
What are they doing?
Who is he?
Louis Braille
Braille Alphabet
ANSWER:
Look at the pictures
A TEACHER IN
A SPEACIAL CLASS
SPECIAL EDUCATION
READING
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
Like other teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job. However, her class is different from other classes. The twenty-five children, 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 realized 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 finger one by one. She continued the demonstration until the children realise they had just learned how to add and subtract. The children have ever reason to be proud of their efforts. They know a new world is opening up for them.
PASSAGE
SPECIAL EDUCATION
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READING
Vocabulary
disabled (adj) :
be unable of doing S.t
Ex: He is a disabled child.
dumb (adj):
proper schooling (n) :
enough and good study
Ex: He has proper schooling.
opposition (v) :
opposing ideas
Ex: There is a lot of opposition from students.
make effort (v):
to be proud of (adj) :
to take pride on
Ex: His parents are proud of him.
not being able to speak
try / attempt
Ex: He made effort to study English well.
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READING
TASK 1: The word in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
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TASK 2: Read the passage again and circle the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
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Twenty-five (1) disabled children have the chance of learning how to (2) read and (3) write thanks to the (4) efforts of young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with (5) opposition from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later. The teaching work in special class is (6) time-consuming . For example, in a (7) Maths lesson, the teacher has to use her (8) arms and (9) fingers to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now (10) proud and happy.
Work in pairs try to fill in the blanks of the summary below with a suitable
word from the reading passage.
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Consolidation
Look at the activities. Which ones do you think would be difficult for blind, deaf, and mute children?
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