Unit 4. Special education

Welcome to class 10G
Teacher: Pham Hoai Nam

Who are they?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
They are disabled children.
They are in class
They are learning
Unit 4
special education
Reading
Lesson 1
Teacher: Pham Hoai Nam
Can they see?
No, they can’t.
What do you call the
people who can not see?
The blind
Look at the pictures and answer the questions
Can she speak?
No, she can’t.
What do you call
the people who
can not speak?
The dumb.
What are they doing?
How do they talk?
They are talking.
They use their hands.
Why do they have to
use their hands?
Because they can not
hear.
What do you call the people who can not hear?
The deaf.
What do you call the people who can not see,
speak or hear?
They are disabled ones.
vocabulary
blind ( adj) mù
dumb (adj) câm
deaf (adj) điếc
disabled (adj) tàn tật
Which schools in Viet Nam are used for disabled students?
Nguyen Dinh Chieu school, Xa Dan school…..
What is this?
It is the Braille Alphabet which is used for the blind.



Look at the Braille Alphabet then work out the message that follows.
We
are
the
world
Task 1
The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.

1. .

2. .

3. .

4. .

5. .
c
e
a
b
d
LUCKY ANIMAL
You are very lucky !
You are very lucky !
You are very lucky !
Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children…..

A.are from large families. B.are less mentally developed.

D.are disabled.
C.Love Maths very much
2. At first the parents were…........the ideas of sending their children to the special class.

A. interested in
C. satisfied with D. worried about.
B. opposed to
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as……

A.humorous B. angry
C.suspicious
D. admiring
3. It can be inferred from the 2nd 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.
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 a proud of her work.
C. the teaching work takes time.
D. adding and subtracting are important
Task 3: Gap filling.
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
Summarising questions

How many children are there in Thuy’s slass? Who are they?
There are twenty - five children.
They are deaf, dumb, and other mentally retarded.

2. Was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled chidren?
Yes, they used to believed that their children could not learn anything at all.

3. How did Thuy teach her children to add and subtract?
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
Homework
Answer this question.
What would happen to the disabled
children if special classes were not
organized for them?
Look at the activities. Which ones do you think would be difficult for blind, deaf and dumb students?
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X
X
X
X
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