Unit 4. Special education

Instructor: Nguyen Van Thuc
Activity 1: Look at these pictures and answer the questions:
Picture1: What is she doing?
She is listening to music.
Picture2: What is he doing?
He is watching TV.
Picture3: What are they doing?
They are reading books.
Picture4: What is he doing?
He is singing and playing guitar.
Picture5: What is she doing?
She is dancing.
Activity 2: Answer the following quizzes
1.What do you call the people who can’t see? >>
2.What do you call the people who can’t hear? >>
3.What do you call the people who can’t speak? >>
The blind
The deaf
The dumb
Look at the pictures again. Then tell me which activities you think would be difficult for people who can’t speak, can’t hear or can’t see.
Activity 3: Look at the pictures and answer the questions followed
Why is this person using his fingers to read?
2.What Alphabet do the blind often use?
?Because They are blind
The Braille Alphabet
Look at the Braille Alphabet and find out the message that follows.
… .………………....... …….....
Look at the pictures and answer the questions followed
? They are dumb
Why are these persons using their hands to communicate?
1. Can they attend normal class?


2. How do they need to education?

disabled [d?s`e?bld] ?
dumb [d?m] ?
deaf [def] ?
mentally retarded [`ment?l?] [r?`t?:rd?d] ?

opposition [, ?p?`z??n] ?
prevent from [pr?`vent] ?
time-consuming [ta?m] [k?n`su:m??] ?

demonstration [dem?n`stre??n] ?
proud of [pr??d] [?v] ?
gradually [`grưd?u?li] ?




tàn tật
câm
điếc
thiểu năng trí tuệ
sự phản đối
ngăn chặn
tốn thời gian
sự thể hiện
tự hào
dần dần
(adj)
(adj)
(v)
(adj)
(n)
(adj)
(adj)
(n)
(adj)
(adv)
Task 1: Answer questions
1.What are children learning in the class?
 They’re learning how to read, write, add & subtract.
2.Why were there lots of opposition from their parents?
 Because they believed that their children couldn’t learn any thing at all.
3.What did Teacher-Thuy teach the children how to add and subtract?
She raised both arms & opened up the fingers.
4. How do the children feel from their efforts?
They are proud of their efforts & they believe their a new life.
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

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
Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the letter A, B, C or D
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
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Task 2: Choose one of these stars below and answer the questions behind them.
Task 3: Fill each the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the box.
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 )
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HOMEWORK:

Look at these pictures

Who are they?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
They are disabled children.
They are in special class
They are learning
What should we do to help them?

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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Question 2: At first the parents were _____the idea of sending their children to the special class.
A. interested in
B. opposed to
C. worried about
D. satisfied with
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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
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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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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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