Unit 4. Special education

Welcome to class 10A1
Warm- up: Miming.

One student goes to the black board, do not say anything only using sign language to express what you means. The others try to guess what you means.
Eat 6. Read book
Brush teeth 7. Swim
Walk 8. Play football
Sleep 9. Hungry
Listen to music 10. Hot
1.Who often uses sign language or gestures to express what they mean?
2..Look at the pictures and tell me who are they?
Disabled people
Blind people
Deaf and mute people
Schools for disabled children are called special schools. Name some special schools you know
Nguyen Dinh Chieu special school for the blind
A. Reading
Unit 4: Special Education
I. Before reading
These dots represent the alphabet of a language for the blind. What is the name of the language ?









The Braille Alphabet
The message: We are the world











Sign language with fingers to communicate
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
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 are 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 realised that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.
deaf
dumb
used to
efforts
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.
proud of
II. While you read: Read the passage in silent in 5 minutes and do the task that follow
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
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 are 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 realised that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.
disabled
mentally
retarded
Gradually
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.
time - consuming
demonstration
Choose the numbers and aswer the questions behind the numbers.
1
3
4
5
6
2
1
2
3
4
5
6
5
III. After reading
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
IV. Homework:
Translate the passage into Viernamese.
Learn by heart the new words.
Summary the passage again.
Prapare the new lesson.
Thanks for your attention .
1. Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children…..
A. are from large families . B.are less mentally developed.
C. love Maths very much D. are disabled.
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
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 are 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 realised that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.

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3. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as……
A. humorous B. angry
C. suspicious D. admiring


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.





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2. At first the parents were..…the ideas of sending their children to the special class.
A. interested in B. opposed to
C. satisfied with D. worried about.
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
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 are 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 realised that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.
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5. 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
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.
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Congratulation!
4. 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.

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.
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