unit 1. 10

Materials Textbook, whiteboard markers,… Pictures about special classes and Braille Alphabet 4.. The blind The deaf The dumb or the mute Nguyen Dinh Chieu Special school for the bl

Unit 4 : SPECIAL EDUCATION

3 Materials

Textbook, whiteboard markers,…

Pictures about special classes and Braille Alphabet

4 Anticipated problems

Ss may have no ideas about special education and Brille.

CLASS 10

TEACHER IN CHARGE : TRAN NGOC HAI DATE: 10/13/2006

Educational Aim

Students understand some types of special education

Special education for the disabled

TABLE OF CONTENT

I Presenting the lesson

II Checking comprehension

III Consolidation

IV Game

Pre - reading

1 What do you call the people who can’t see?

2 What do you call the people who can’t hear?

3 What do you call the people who can’t speak?

4 Have you ever known any special schools for them?

The blind

The deaf

The dumb or the mute

Nguyen Dinh Chieu Special school for the blind

School for the dumb and the deaf at Binh Duong province Hoa Binh Youth Village for the mentally retarded at Go Vap

Look at the activities Which ones are difficult for blind, deaf and mute children?

Activities Deaf Mute Blind

Guess his disability

This is Louis Braille, the great benefactor

of human It was he that invented the Braille Alphabet

These dots represent the alphabet of a language for the blind – What’s the name of the language?

Hellen Keller

(1880-1968)

She became blind and deaf – but she could read and write at the age of 6.

She graduated Colleges, gave lectures and traveled

to many countries

A disabled sportsman

A DISABLED TEACHER

The paralyzed

The disabled can work

in groups

Look at the requirements Are they necessary for teachers in teaching disabled children?

Requirement Yes No Determination

Demonstration Aid instruments Opposition

Support Impatient Time

While - reading

Phrases or new words:

Disabled (a)  Disability (n)

SIGN LANGUAGE FOR THE DUMB

Mentally retarded:

less developed mentally than

normal

v Time - consuming  time - saving

v Demonstration (n) = show

v Opposition : the act of strongly disagreeing with

sb/st  oppose (v)

The words in A appear in the reading passage Match them with their definitions in B

a taking or needing a lot of time

b An act of showing or explaining low 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

Read the passage again and complete the following

sentences by the corresponding letter A, B, C or D

1 Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children .

A are from large families

A interested in

B are less mentally developed

C love Maths very much

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

4 The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in order to prove that _

A the children like Maths

A humorous

B the teacher is proud of her work

C the teaching work takes time

D adding and subtrating are important

5 The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as .

B angry

C suspicious

D admiring

Questions and answers

1 Does Ms Pham Thu Thuy enjoy her teaching?

2 How are the children in her class?

 yes

 They are disabled

3 Why did the parents oppose the idea of sending their children

to the special class at first?

 Because they thought their children couldn’t learn anything at

all

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

substract?

 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

Post – reading: Fill each of the blanks of the

summary below with a suitable word from the

reading passage

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

disable d

deaf

• What would happen to the disabled children if a special

class was not organized for them?

children to the special class at first?

substract?

mute children? How can the deaf and the mute overcome their difficulty?

Read the text and answer the following questions: