Unit 4. Special education

What do you often do every day?
Is it difficult for you to do those things if you can’t see or you can’t hear?
Look at the Braille Alphabet
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Louis Braille
(1809-1852)
Unit 4: Special Education
A- Reading
A teacher in a special class
Reading passage:
New words
to prevent sb from st/ doing st (V)
= to stop sb from st doing st
= Not to let sb do st
Ngăn cản ai làm việc gì đó
I- PRESENTATION
- to oppose to Sb/st (v):
Example: They don`t agree with each other. They oppose to others` ideas.
- opposition (n):

to be proud of st / sb:
Example:
You study very well, so your parents are proud of you.
Tự hào vì điều gì/ về ai
to make efforts to do st
= to try to do st (v)
effort (n):

Cộng >< Trừ
New words
Prevent sb from st/ doing st:
Opposition:
To be proud of st /sb:
Effort:
To make efforts to do st:
Add >< subtract :

I- PRESENTATION
II- PRACTICE
Task 1:
The words in A appear in the reading pasage. Match them with their definitions in B.
Task 1
Task 2:
Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D.
1. Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children ____.
are from other large families

B. are less mentally developed
C. love Maths very much
D. are disabled
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2. At first the parents were _____the idea of sending their children to the special class.
A. interested in
B. opposed to
C. satisfied
D. worried about
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3. It can be inferred from the second 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 parents against the class
C. a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability
D. a belief in the parents’ opposition
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4. The writer descibles how THUY teaches the children to add and substract in order to prove that ____ .
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
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5. The writer’s attitude towards THUY’s work in the passage can be described as _______ .
A. humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring
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Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the reading pasage
III- FREE-PRACTICE
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 parens 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
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(3)
(2)
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(5)
(6)
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(10)
Homework:
Learn new words and make sentences with them.
Prepare for the next lesson.
Good bye!!
The twenty-five children who are learning how to read and write in her class, are (1)disabled. Some are deaf, some dumb and others (2)mentally retarded.
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Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how (3)time-consuming the work is. During a maths lesson, she raised both arms and opened up her fingers until all ten stood up. She then closed the fingers one by one until all ten stood up. She continued the (4)demonstration until the children realised they had just learned how to add and subtract.
Paragraph 3
In the first week, only five children attended the class. (5)Gradually more children arrived.
Paragraph 2