Unit 4. Special education

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
Answer the following quiz
Who is he?
Louis Braille
Braille Alphabet
WE ARE THE WORLD
Like other teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job. However, her class is different from other classes. The twenty-five children, who are learning how to read and write in her class, are disabled. Some are deaf, some dumb and others mentally retarded. Most of the children come from large and poor families, which prevents them from having proper schooling. At first, there was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled children. They used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all. In the first week, only five children attended the class. Gradually more children arrived. Their parents realized that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids. Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how time-consuming the work is. During a Maths lesson, she raised both arms and opened up her fingers one by one until all ten stood up. She then closed the fingers one by one. She continued the demonstration until the children realised they had just learned how to add and subtract. The children have every reason to be proud of their efforts. They know a new world is opening up for them.


A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
READING

vocabulary
tàn tật
học hành đầy đủ
ý kiến phản đối
cố gắng
tự hào
cách diễn đạt
tốn thời gian
*disabled (adj):
*mentally retarded *proper schooling :
*opposition (n):
*effort [`efət] (n):
*to be proud of (adj):
*demonstration (n)
*time-consuming (adj)
Chậm phát triển trí tuệ
TASK 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
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TASK 2:Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D to.
Twenty-five (1) disabled children have the chance of learning how to (2) read and (3) write thanks to the (4) efforts of young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.
Although her idea, at first, met with (5) opposition from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later. The teaching work in special class is (6) time-consuming . For example, in a (7) Maths lesson, the teacher has to use her (8) arms and (9) fingers to teach the children how to add and subtract. The children are now (10) proud and happy.
Fill in each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable
word from the reading passage.
After you read
Read the passage again and answer these questions
1.why couldn’t the parents give their disabled children an education?
2. why did the parents oppose the idea of sending the children to the special class at first?
3.in what way Thuy teach the children how to add and subtract?
Home work
Suggested answers
1.because most of them come from large and poor family, which prevents them from having proper schooling
2. Because they used to believed that their children could not learn anything at all.
3.she raised both arms and open up her fingers one by one until all ten stood up. Then she closed the fingers one by one.