Unit 4. Special education

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Unit Four
What do you often do everyday ?

- talk to someone
- listening to teacher
- watching television
- singing a song
- playing football
- reading books
- phone friends
Which of these activities would be difficulty for blind , mute and deaf people ?
Activities blind mute deaf
x
x
x
x
x
x
x

x
x
x




+ What do you think about them ?
+ What should we do to help them?
Special education
UNIT FOUR : SPECIAL EDUCATION
Period 20: READING
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Special education refers to the teaching of students with a learning disability, a developmental disability or a behavioral problem, such as the blind and the deaf.....



Braille is a system which enables blind people to read by touching and to write by using an embosser.
Vocabulary

* Disabled (a):
be unable/ incapable of doing something
* Dumb (a) :
not being able to speak
* Proper schooling (n) :
enough and good study
* Opposition (n) :
opposing ideas, disagreeing viewpoints
* make effort (v):
try, attempt
* to be proud of (a) :
take pride on
Rub out and remember
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
UNIT FOUR : SPECIAL EDUCATION
Period 20 : READING
UNIT FOUR : SPECIAL EDUCATION
The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B:
Tuesday, October 23rd,2007

Answer:
1c
2e
3a
4b
5d
Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children…………….
b.are less mentally developed
d. are disabled
2. At first the parents were ………… the ideas of sending their children to the special class.
b. a lot of protest from the parents against the class
c. a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability
4. The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in order to prove that ……………….
a. the children like Maths
d. adding and subtracting are important
b. the teacher is proud of her work













a. are from large families
c. love Maths very much
d. a belief in the parents’ opposition
a. a change in the parents’ attitude toward the class
c. the teaching work takes time
Complete the following sentences by choosing the letter A, B, C or D
a. interested in
b. opposed to
c. satisfied with
d. worried about
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been …………………….
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as …….
a. humorous
b. angry
c. suspicious
d. admiring
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.
Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable words from the reading passage:


disabled
read
write
determination
opposition
time-consuming
maths
arms
fingers
proud
UNIT FOUR : SPECIAL EDUCATION
Period 20: READING
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Talk about Ms Thuy’s special class.
Suggested question:
+ How many children are there in her class?
+ Who are they ?
+ Do they live in a poor or a rich family?
+ Was there any opposition from the parents of the disabled children ?
+ In what way did the teacher teach the children how to read and write?
…………………………
UNIT FOUR : SPECIAL EDUCATION
Period 20: READING

Read the whole text again.
Summarize the text and learn the new words of the text.
Write a short paragraph about Ms Thuy’s special class (about 80 words).
Prepare the part: SPEAKING for the next class.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007