Unit 4 - E10 - Reading

Look at the pictures and answer the question: What are they doing in these pictures?Picture 1 She is listening to music... Then tell the class which activities you think would be difficu

Look at the pictures and answer the question: What are they doing in these pictures?

Picture 1

She is listening to music.

Picture 2

He is watching TV.

Picture 3

He is using the computer.

Picture 4

She is singing.

Picture 5

They are playing football.

Picture 6

They are reading books.

Look at the pictures again Then tell the class which activities you think would be difficult for blind and deaf people

Eg: blind people find it difficult to use the computer.

Look at the 2 pictures and find out the differences between them.

Lesson 1: Reading

Monday, October 5 th , 2009

W E ARE THE WORLD …… …… ………

Look at the Braille Alphabet Then work out the message that follows

I Before you read

American Sign Language ( ASL )

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sự phản đối bàn tay

II While you read

a Taking or needing a lot of time

b An act of showing or explaining how to do

something.

c Unable to use a part of the body in the

normal way.

d Slowly, over a long period of time.

e Less mentally developed than normal

Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage Match

them with their definitions in B.

After you read: Fill each the blanks of the summary below with a

suitable word from the box.

read write disabled efforts opposition time- consuming Maths arms fingers proud

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

( adj )

-Learn new words by heart

-Think of what you should do to help

the disabled

- Prepare new lesson

Answer the questions

1 How are the children in Pham Thu Thuy’ class ?

They are disabled children.

2 why did the parents oppose the idea of sending their

children to the special class at first

Because they used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all.

3 In what way did Thuy teach the children how to add and

subtract?

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.

Question 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

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Question 2 : At first the parents were _the idea of sending their children to the special class.

Question 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 the 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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Question 4: 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 proud of her work

C the teaching work takes time

D adding and subtracting are important

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Question 5 : The writers attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as

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Eg: deaf and dumb people use finger- language to communicate

She held the baby in her arms

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