Unit 4. Special education

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What is he doing?
He is listening to music.
What is he doing?
He is watching TV.
Picture 4
She is reading books.
What is she doing?
Picture 5
He is singing.
What is he doing?
Which of the activities above do you think would be difficult for people who can’t speak, can’t hear or can’t see.
EX: Watching T.V is difficult for people
who can’t see
1. What is he doing?
2. Is he reading in a normal way?/ Why?
=> He is reading in a special way ( by figures) because he is blind
=> He is reading
3. Do you think it is easy for him to learn?
4. Can he learn in our class?
=>In a special class
Today we are going to read a passage about a teacher in a special class whose students can`t speak, can`t see or can`t hear.to know how hard her work is.
Unit 4: Special education
Lesson1:Reading
Work in pairs, look at the Braille Alphabet, work out the message that follows

The message is: We are the world

Reading

1. Vocabulary:
Dumb (adj): câm
Mentally retarded: chậm phát triển trí tuệ
Disabled (adj) tàn tật
Time- consuming (adi) mÊt nhiÒu thêi gian
Opposition: (n) sự phản đối
Demonstration (n) sự minh họa
Make efforts : = try : cố gắng, nổ lực
Unit 4: Special Education

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
2. Reading Task 1: Read the passage again and choose the best option A,B,C or D
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
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
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
Question 5: The writers attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as________ .
A. humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring 5
Task 2: Match right paragraphs with the right tittles
P1: Why is Thuy’s class different from other classes?
The students in her class are disabled
+ Some are deaf
+ Some are dumb
+ Others are mentally retarded
P2: What is the attitude of the parents of the disabled children toward the class
- At first, they were opposed to the idea of sending their children to the class
- Later, more children attended

P3: What did Thuy do in a maths lesson?
- She raised her arms
- She opened up her fingers one by one
She closed her fingers again one by one

What did she do like that for?
To teach children how to add and subtract


What do you think about the teacher in this special class?
- She loves her children
- She enjoys her teaching job although it is a hard work.
- With great efforts, she is opening up a new world for her disabled children who seem to have been unable to learn anything at all.


Discussion:
How about the students in this class?
- They are disabled and have poor living- condition
- Thanks to their teacher’s help, they have the chance of learning how to read and write, how to add and subtract
- With great efforts, they have got over difficulties and believed in their bright future


See You Again
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
HOMEWORK: Fill each the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the box. ( P46)
read write disabled efforts opposition
time- consuming Maths arms fingers proud
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.
disabled
read
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
Maths
arms
fingers
proud
( adj )
( v )
( v )
( n )
( n )
( adj )
( n )
( n )
( n )
( adj )
2. Reading: Task1: T/F statements
1. Thuy doesn’t like her teaching job.
2. The students in Thuy’s class are from rich families.
3. At first there were not many children attending the class.
4. She raised both her arms and opened up her fingers to teach her children how to read and write.
5. The children are happy proud of their efforts after taking the class
F
F
T
T
F
enjoys
large and poor
five
how to add and subtract