Unit 4. Special education

Nguyen Du high school
welcome to our class 10A3

Teacher: Le Thi Phuong
Unit 4 – Part A - Reading


After you read:
Look at the activities. Which ones do you think
would be difficult for blind, deaf, and mute
children?

Activities
listen to teacher
pronounce words
write a letter
listen to music
phone friends
look at the
blackboard

De Mut Blin
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d

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1. What is he doing?
=> He is reading
2. Is he reading in a normal way?/
Why?
=> He is reading in a
special way ( by
figures) because he is
blind
3. Do you think it is
easy for him to learn?
4. Can he learn in our class? =>In a special class


Unit 4: Special education

Period 21 –Part
A:Reading


Work in pairs, look at the Braille Alphabet, work out the message that
follows

The message is: We

are the world


* Vocabulary:
- disabled /dɪˈseɪ.bll̩d/ : (adj)
khuyết tật
- deaf /def/: (adj)
điếc
- dumb  /dʌm/ : (adj)
câm
- blind /blaɪnd/: (adj)
mù
- proper schooling:  /ˈprɒp.ər/  (n) học hành đầy đủ
- opposition /ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/: (n)
ý kiến phản đối
-time-consuming /ˈtaɪm.kənˌsjuː.mɪŋ/:(adj) tốn thời gian
- demonstration /ˌdem.ənˈstreɪ.ʃən/:(n) việc minh hoạ
-to be proud of  /praʊd/ :
tự hào
- mentally retarded:
thiểu năng trí tuệ
/ˈmen.təl.i/   /rɪˈtɑː.dɪd/ 


A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
Like others teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job.
However, her class is different from other classes. The twenty-five
chidren, who are learning how to read and write in her class, are
disabled. Some are deaf, some 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.
Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how timeconsuming 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 learn 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.


Task 1: Matching
A

B

a. taking or needing a lot of time
1. disabled
b. an act of showing or explaining
2. mentally
how to do something.
retarded
c. unable to use a part of the
3. timebody in the normal way
consuming
4.demonstration d. slowly, over a long period of

5. gradually

time
e. less mentally developed than
normal


Task 2:

Multiple - choice

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
D. are disabled
2. At first the parents were _________the idea of sending their
children to the
special class.
B
E. interested in B. opposed
to
C. satisfied with
F. D. worried about
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading
passage that there has been__________
G.a

change in parents’ attitude towards the class
A
H. a lot of protest from the parents against the class
I. a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability
J. a belief in their parents’ opposition


4. The writer discribes how Thuy teaches the
children to add and subtract in order to prove
that __________
A.The children like Maths
B. the teacher is proud of her work
C
C.
the teaching work takes time
D. adding and subtracting are important
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in
the passage can be described as_______
E.humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring
D


Task 3: Answering
1. How many children attended the class in the first week?
Only five children attended the class in the first week.
2. How many children are there in Thuy’s class? Who are
they?

 There are twenty-five children. They are disabled children.
(Some are deaf, dumb and mentally retarded).


3. What prevents the children from having proper schooling?
 They

live in a poor family.
4. What did Miss Thuy use to teach the children to add and
subtract?
 She used her arms and fingers.


AFTER YOU READ: Filling
read
write
disabled
efforts
opposition
time- consuming Maths
arms fingers
proud
( adj )
disabled
Twenty-five(1) _________children
have the chance of learning
(read
v)
(write
v ) thanks to the (4)_______

( n ) of a
efforts
how to (2)_______and
(3)_______
young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.

Although her idea, at first, met with(5)__________from
the
opposition
(n)
parents of the disabled children, more children attended her
class later.
The teaching work in the special class is (6)_____________.
For
time-consuming
( adj )
example, in a (7)_______
lesson, the teacher has to use
(Maths
n)
her(8)_______and
(9)_______
to teach the children how to add
(n)
(n)
arms
fingers
and subtract. The children are now (10)________and
happy.
(proud

adj )


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
See You Again


Task 3: Ask and answer the questions
1. How many children attended the class in the first week?
2. How many children are there in Thuy’s class? Who are
they?
3. What prevents the children from having proper schooling?
4. What did Miss Thuy use to teach the children to add and
subtract?