Unit 4. Special education

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Trường THPT Nguyễn Mộng Tuân
Bài giảng
Giáo viên thực hiện: Lê Thị Thanh Tâm
Unit 4 SPECIAL EDUCATION
Lesson 1: READING
What do you often do everyday ?

warm-up
- talking to someone
- listening to teacher
- watching television
- singing a song
- playing football
- reading books
- phoning friends
Which of these activities would be difficulty for blind , dumb and deaf people ?
Activities blind dumb deaf
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x
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x
x
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Deaf and dumb people
Blind people
Disabled people



Activity 1:
Answer the following quiz
What do you call the people who can’t see?
What do you call the people who can’t hear?
What do you call the people who can’t speak?
The blind
The deaf
The dumb

Work in pairs, look at the pictures and answer the questions followed
2.What language are they using?
Why are these persons using their hands to communicate?
Sign language with fingers to communicate

Work in pairs, look at the pictures and answer the questions followed
Why is this person using his fingers to read?
2.What language is he using?
The message: We are the world
Schools for disabled children are called special schools. Name some special school you know
Nguyen Dinh Chieu special school for the blind
Look at these pictures

Who are they?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
They are disabled children.
They are in class
They are learning
Reading:A teacher in a special class
Unit 4
Special Education
Trường THPT Nguyễn Mộng Tuân
Bài giảng
Giáo viên thực hiện: Lê Thị Thanh Tâm
Unit 4 SPECIAL EDUCATION
Lesson 1: READING
Vocabularies
Task 1:
Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B.
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 C. satisfied with
Opposed to D. worried about
Task 2:
Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
D
B

3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been ______
a change in the 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 parents’ opposition
Task 2:
Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
A
4. The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in orfer 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 _________
A. humorous B. angry C. suspicious D. admiring
Task 2:
Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
C
D
Task 3: Gap filling.
Twenty-five ……………children have the chance of learning how to …………and………thanks to the………….. of a young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy. Although her idea, at first, met with………….…from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later. The teaching work in the special class is………. ………….. For example, in a………..lesson, the teacher has to use her…………...and …………..to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now ………..and happy.
disabled
read
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
Maths
arms
fingers
proud
After you read
(1) disabled (2) read
(3) write (4) efforts
(5) opposition (6) time - consuming
(7) Maths (8) arms
(9) fingers (10) proud
After you read
Work in groups of four and summarize the reading passage
Home work: Do exercises in work book , reading part and prepare for the speaking period
THANK YOU
&
GOODBYE!!!!!
Unit 4: Special Education
C..After you read:
Name some famous disabled people you know
Discuss the problems of the deaf and the mute and other disabled people in their daily life and how they overcome them
an American lecturer and writer
An American President.
Franklin Deland Roosevelt with disability
Morla Rungan -wearing number 3375, the 1st blind USA Olympic athlete in 2000 in Sydney
A dog can help the blind passing the road
Hearing aids for the deaf
A Wheel chair for the disabled
Walking stick for the Blind