Unit 4. Special education

Welcome everybody
Teacher in charge: Nguy?n thi mai Ly
The dumb
The deaf
The blind
Mentally retarded
DISABLED CHILDREN
UNIT 4:
SPECIAL EDUCATION
A. Reading
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.go to school
.listen to teacher
.pronounce words
.look at the board
.watch television
.listen to music
.phone friends
.speak English
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I/ BEFORE - READING
a Braille book

aid instrusment
wheelchair
*VOCABULARY:
disabled (adj)
II/ WHILE – READING:
: tàn tật, khuyết tật
mentally retarded
: thiểu năng trí tuệ
time – consuming (adj)
: tốn nhiều thời gian
demonstration (n)
opposition (n)
dumb (adj)
blind (adj)
deaf (adj)
: sự minh họa
: sự phản đối
: câm
: mù
: điếc
*VOCABULARY:
disabled (adj)
: tàn tật, khuyết tật
mentally retarded
: thiểu năng trí tuệ
time – consuming (adj)
: tốn nhiều thời gian
demonstration (n)
opposition (n)
dumb (adj)
blind (adj)
deaf (adj)
: sự minh họa
: sự phản đối
: câm
: mù
: điếc
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Task 1.
The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
1. disabled
2. mentally retarded
3.time - cosuming
4.demonstration
5.gradually
taking or needing a lot of time
an act of showing or explaining how to do something
unable to use a part of the body in the normal way
slowly, over a long period of time
less mentally developed than normal
e.
d.
c.
b.
a.
Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
Task 2.
1. Thuy`s class is different from other classes because the children____________
2. At first the parents were________the idea of sending their children to the special class.
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been__________
4. The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in order to prove that___________
5. The writer`s attitude towards Thuy`s work in the passage can be described as___
a. are from large families
b. are less mentally developed
c. love Maths very much
d. are disabled
a. interested in
b. opposed to
c. satisfied with
d. worried about
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
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
a. humorous
b. angry
c. suspicious
d. admiring
D
B
A
C
D
III/ AFTER - READING
Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the reading passage.

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.
read
disabled
write
efforts
opposition
time - consuming
Maths
arms
fingers
proud
Louis Braille`s
Nguyễn Công Hùng
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Ngày ngày, thầy giáo trẻ câm điếc Phi Long tận tâm truyền nghề cho các học trò đồng cảnh ngộ và tranh thủ thời gian sáng tác
Anh Đặng Hoài Phúc, người khiếm thị, Giám đốc trung tâm tin học Sao Mai TP.HCM
Thu truong Bo BC-VT Vu Duc Dam (ngoai cung, trai sang) trao giai nhat cho thi sinh Trinh Cong Thanh.
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