Unit 4. Special education

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Unit 4:
Special education
A - Reading
Before you read
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a. New words
DISABLED
Người khuyết tật
Deaf
Người điếc
Dumb
Người câm
blind
Người mù
Disabled: (adj) khuyết tật
deaf: (adj) điếc
dumb: (adj) câm
blind: (adj) mù
proper schooling: (n) học hành đầy đủ
oppositon: (n) ý kiến phản đối
make effort: (v) nỗ lực, cố gắng
time-consuming: (adj) tốn thời gian
demontration: (n) việc minh hoạ
add: (v) cộng
subtract: (v) trừ
to be proud of: tự hào
metally retarded: thiểu năng trí tuệ
b. Tasks
Task 1:
Task 2:
Multiple - choice
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. At first the parents were _________the idea of sending their children to the
special class.
interested in B. opposed to C. satisfied with D. worried about
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been__________
a change in parents’ attitude towards the class
a lot of protest from the parents against the class
a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability
a belief in their parents’ opposition
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B
A
4. The writer discribes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in ofder to prove that __________
The children like Maths
the teacher is proud of her work
the teaching work takes time
adding and subtracting are important

5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as_______
humorous B. angry
C. suspicious D. admiring
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D
After you read
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.
Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the
Reading passage.
Maths
disabled
efforts
arms
read
write
time-consuming
opposition
fingers
proud
- Learn by heart the form of all the new words

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