Unit 4. Special education

WELCOME TO CLASS 10A10
Teacher: Tran Thi Thanh Nga
Watch a clip and answer the questions:
1. Can the father speak?
2. What is he using to communicate with his daughter?
Video người cha câm (nặng quá e cắt rồi)
No, he can’t.
Answer the questions:
Can the father speak?

2. What is he using to communicate with his daughter?
He is using sign language to communicate with his daughter.
Look at these pictures

Who are they?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
They are disabled children.
They are in a special class
They are learning
What should we do to help them?
Unit 4: Special Education
Lesson A - Reading
I. Teaching Vocabulary
English 10 - UNIT 4 : READING
disabled (adj):
English 10 - UNIT 4 : READING
I. Teaching vocabulary
khuyết tật
/dis’eibld/
Ex: We call the men in these 2 pictures are
mentally retarded
English 10 - UNIT 4 : READING
I. Teaching vocabulary
2 + 2 = 4
4 – 2 = 2
Add (v), addition (n)
cộng
Subtract (v), subtraction (n)
trừ
dumb  (a) /dʌm/:
= mute (a)
Câm
They are dumb.
Deaf (a) : điếc
He is deaf.
Blind (a) : mù
He is blind.
Vocabulary:

dumb [dʌm] (adj) : câm = mute (adj)
deaf [def] (adj) : điếc
blind [blaind] (adj) : mù
disabled [dɪs`eɪbld] (adj) : tàn tật
mentally retarded (adj) [`mentəlɪ rɪ`tɑ:rdɪd]
: thiểu năng trí tuệ
add /æd/ (v) : cộng
subtract /s∂b’trækt/ (v) : trừ
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Period 21: UNIT 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION – A. READING
CHECKING VOCABULARY
Match the word (s) from the box with the proper pictures
Unit 4: Special Education
Lesson A – Reading

II. While you read

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.
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
GAME
LUCKY STAR
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1
2
5
6
4
Task 1: Choose one of these stars below and answer the questions behind them.
GAME
LUCKY STAR
Question 1 : 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
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1
Paragraph 1- Line 2, 3
Question 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
Paragraph 2- line 1,2
Question 3: How do the children feel from their efforts?
A. They are proud of their efforts.
B. They feel very disappointed.
C. They feel very bored.
D. They have a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s
ability.
3
Paragraph 2- line 4, 5
Question 4: How many children attended the class in the first week?
A. 25
B. 15
C. 10
D. 5
4
Paragraph 2- Line 2, 3
Question 5: How many disabled children are there in Ms Thuy’s class?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 15
D. 25
5
Paragraph 1- Line 2
Lucky Star !
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Twenty-five (1)_________children have the chance of learning how to (2)_____ and (3)_______thanks to the (4)_______of a young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with (5) __________from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later.
The teaching work in the special class is (6)_____________.
For example, in a (7)______lesson, the teacher has to use her (8)_____ and (9)_______ to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now (10)_______ and happy.
Maths
disabled
efforts
arms
read
write
time-consuming
opposition
fingers
proud
Task 2. Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the Reading passage.
read write disabled efforts opposition
time- consuming maths arms fingers proud
After you read:
Look at the activities. Which ones do you think would be
difficult for blind, deaf, and mute children?
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E.g. Singing a song and ……. and ……… would be difficult for ……….children.