Unit 4-reading- grade 10

1. What part of body is used to see?
4. What part of body is used to talk?
2. What part of the body is used to hear?
3. What part of the body is used to go?
Guess who is behind?
Eyes
Ears
Mouth
Legs
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Part A. Reading( period 21)
Thursday, 26th September, 2012
Braille Alphabet
I. Before you read
Louis Braille(1809-1846)
WE ARE THE WORLD
1. Braille (n) chữ nổi
2. deaf (a) điếc= mute(a)
3. dumb (a) câm
4. finger (n) ngón tay
5. demonstration (n) sự minh hoạ
6. mentally retarded (a) chậm phát triển trí tuệ
7. disabled (a) tàn tật
8. time - consuming (adj) mất nhiều thời gian
9. to make efforts (v) nổ lực
10. opposition (n) sự phản đối ->to oppose (v): chống lại
Vocabulary
1. Braille (n) chữ nổi
2. deaf (a) điếc= mute(a)
3. dumb (a) câm
4. finger (n) ngón tay
5. demonstration (n) sự minh hoạ
6. mentally retarded (a) chậm phát triển trí tuệ
7. disabled (a) tàn tật
8. time - consuming (adj) mất nhiều thời gian
9. to make efforts (v) nổ lực
10. opposition (n) sự phản đối ->to oppose (v): phản đối
Checking vocabulary
1. Braille (n) chữ nổi
2. deaf (a) điếc= mute(a)
3. dumb (a) câm
4. finger (n) ngón tay
5. demonstration (n) sự minh hoạ
6. mentally retarded (a) chậm phát triển trí tuệ
7. disabled (a) tàn tật
8. time - consuming (adj) mất nhiều thời gian
9. to make efforts (v) nổ lực
10. opposition (n) sự phản đối ->to oppose (v): chống lại
Vocabulary

Listen to the passage about Pham Thu Thuy- a teacher in a special class
a. taking or needing a lot of time
A
B
1. disabled
2. mentally retarded
3. time- consuming
b. an act of showing or explaining
how to do something
c. unable to use a part of body in
in the normal way
4. demonstration
5. gradually
d. slowly, over a long period of
time
e. less mentally developed than
normal
II. While you read:
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with
their definitions in B
C
e
a
b
d
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…………
are from large families
are less mentally developed
love Maths very much
are disabled
Line 5, 6 p1
Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D
2. At first the parents were……the idea of sending their children to the special class.
interested in
opposed to
satisfied with
worried about
Line 1, 2 p2
Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by choosing the corresponding letter A, B, C or D
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been…
a change in the parents’ attitude towards the class
a lot of opposition from the parents against the class
a feeling of doubt in the teachers against the class
a belief in the parents’ opposition
Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D
4. The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in order to prove that………….
the children like Maths
the teacher is proud of her work
the teaching work takes time
adding and subtracting are important
Paragraph 3
Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as……
humorous
angry
suspicious
admiring
III. After you read: Fill in blanks with suitable words given in the box

efforts(n) disable (a) fingers (n) arms(n)
read(v) write (v) Maths (n)
opposition(n) time-consuming(a) proud (a)
Twenty- five (1)_(a)______________children have the chance of learning to (2)_(v)_____________and (3)__(v)______________thanks to the (4)___(n)______________of a young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with (5)__(n)______________from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later.
The teaching work in the special class is (6)_(a)___________________. For example, in a (7)__(n)_____________lesson, the teacher has to use her (8)__(n)______________and (9)__(n)____________to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now (10)_(a)____________and happy.
disabled
read
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
Maths
arms
fingers
proud
Let’s do what you can!
Thank you!
Homework:

Review the lesson at home
Learn the new words by heart
Prepare part B- Speaking