Unit 4. Special education

WELCOME TO CLASS
Watch a video and answer the questions
2.Can the father speak?
3.What is he using to communicate with her daughter?
No, he can’t
Body language/ sign language (hand, face,….)
1.Who are they?
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Braille Cell
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Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION

A. READING
Vocabulary
What do you call people who can’t say?
They are dumb = mute ( câm)
Ex: We call the men in 2 pictures are .....(?)
Mentally retarded
- Disabled people /dis`eibld /
Người tàn tật
What do you call people in the pictures?
- to oppose to Sb/st (v):
 opposition (n):
Phản đối ai/ điều gỡ
Sự phản đối
Example: They don’t agree with each other. They oppose to others’ ideas.
Eg.: A teacher takes a lot of time to prepare the lesson plan
=Time-consuming
The teacher is giving a demonstration to help her students understand the lesson

demonstration (n) [deməns`trei∫n] sự thể hiện, sự thuyết minh
Gradually/`grædjuəlli/ (adv)

dumb [dʌm] (adj)
deaf [def] (adj)
mentally retarded [`mentəlɪ] [rɪ`tɑ:rdɪd] (adj)

disabled [dɪs`eɪbld] (adj)

opposition [, pə`zɪ∫n] (n)
prevent from [prɪ`vent] (v)
time-consuming [taɪm] [kən`sju:mɪŋ] (adj)

demonstration [demən`streɪ∫n] (n)
proud of [prɑʊd] (adj)
Gradually (adv) /`grædjuəlli/
* Vocabulary:
ɔ
tàn tật
câm
điếc
thiểu năng trí tuệ
sự chống đối
ngăn chặn
tốn thời gian
sự minh họa
tự hào
dần dần
blind/blaind (a)
mù
Task 1.Checking vo cabulary: Matching
Match the words in A with their definitions in B.
Task 2.Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
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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(P1, L3&L4)
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
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(P2, L1)
Question 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
3

(P2, L8,9,10)
Question 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
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(P3, L1)
Question 5: The writers attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as________ .
A. humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring
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(content of the passage)
Answer the questions
Who is the teacher of the special class in the text?
4. Why didn’t the parents take their children to attend the class at first?
5. How did the teacher teach the children how to add and subtract?
2. How many children attended the class in the first week?
3. How many children are there in Thuy’s class? Who are they?
Who is the teacher of the special class in the text?
 Pham Thu Thuy is the teacher of the special class.
2. How many children attended the class in the first week?
 Only five children attended the class in the first week.
3. How many children are there in Thuy’s class? Who are they?
 There are twenty-five children. They are disabled children. (Some are deaf, dumb and mentally retarded.)
 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
 Because they used to believe that their children couldn’t learn anything at all.
4. Why didn’t the parents take their children to attend the class at first?
5. How did the teacher teach the children how to add and subtract?
Post-reading
Fill each the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the box.
write disabled opposition
time- consuming efforts fingers
Twenty-five(1) _________children have the chance of learning how to read and (2)_______ thanks to the (3)_______ of a young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with(4)__________from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later.
The teaching work in the special class is (5)_____________. For example, in a Maths lesson, the teacher has to use her arm and (6)_______ to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now proud and happy.
disabled
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
fingers
( adj )
( v )
( n )
( n )
( adj )
( n )
Dicussion:
1. What would happen to the disabled children if a special class was not organised for them?
2. Why couldn’t the parents give their disabled children an education?
HOMEWORK
- Learn by heart vocabulary
Read the text and do the taks again
Prepare the next lesson: “UNIT 4: B. SPEAKING”: find out new words, their meaning, put the questions into the passage, answer the questions about their school using the questions in task 1