Unit 4. Special education

A. READING
Look at the Braille Alphabet and work out the message that follows.
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C A N N O T
SEE
A teacher in a special class

Disabled [d?s`e?bld] (adj) tăn t?t
Dumb [d?m] (adj) cđm
Deaf [def] (adj) di?c
Mentally retarded [`ment?l?] [r?`t?:rd?d] (adj) thi?u nang tr� tu?
Opposition [?:p?`z??n] (n) s? ph?n d?i
Attend [?`tend] (v) tham gia
Prevent (+ from) [pr?`vent] (v)ngan ch?n
Time-consuming [ta?m] [k?n`su:m??] (adj)
m?t th?i gian
Demonstration [dem?n`stre??n] (n) s? tr�nh băy
Proud [pr??d] (+of) (adj) t? hăo
* Vocabulary:
Disabled children
* Matching:
Task 1: Collecting information
She’s a teacher.
There are twenty-five students.
They are disabled
They come from large and poor
Task 2:True or False Statements
1- At first, the parents of the disabled children agreed to send their children to the class.

2- They believed that their children couldn`t learn anything at all.

3- In the first week, many children attended the class but gradually less children arrived.
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While
reading
Task 2:True or False Statements
4- Their parents realised the the young teacher didn’t make great efforts to help their children.
5- The children are proud of their efforts.
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After you read
Read the passage again and answer these questions.
1. Who are Mrs. Thuy’s students?
2.Why couldn’t the parents give their disabled children an education?
3. Why did the parents oppose the idea of sending their children to the special class at first?
4.In what way did Thuy teach the children how to add and subtract?
Suggested answers
1. They are the disabled.
2.Because most of them come from large and poor family, which prevents them from having proper schooling
3. Because they used to believed that their children could not learn anything at all.
4.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.
- Learn new words by heart.
- Fill in suitable words for the summary in "After you read".
- Prepare for the next lesson B. Speaking.
Thank you for your attention!