unit 4 - reading

Schools for disabled children are called special schools.. Name some special school you knowNguyen Dinh Chieu special school for the blind... ∗ Can deaf and blind people read and write n

Schools for disabled children are called special schools Name some special school you know

Nguyen Dinh Chieu special school for the blind

Before you read

∗ Make a list of the activities you do everyday Then ask your partner

ones he/ she thinks would be difficult for

blind and deaf and deaf people.

∗ Can you see if you are blind?

∗ Can deaf and blind people read and write normally?

• Listen to teacher or somebody

• Raise their arms

• Phone friends

• Close/ open fingers

Work with a partner

Look at the

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

Sự thể hiện

Sự quyết tâm Tàn tật

Câm Chậm phát triển trí tuệ

Sự giáo dục ở nhà trường

Khuyến khích Toán trừ

Tốn nhiều thời gian Niềm đam mê

Vocabulary

• While you read:

• Read the passage in silent in 5 minutes and do the task that follow

• A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS

Task 1: 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 how

to do something.

c.

normal way.

d Slowly , over a long period of time

e Less mentally developed than normal

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 2:

Read the passage again and complete the

following sentences by choosing the best letter

A, b, C or D.

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

A Are from large families

B are less mentally developed.

C Love Math very much

D are disabled.

2 At first the parents were….the ideas of

sending their children to the special class

A Interested in

C Satisfied with

D worried about

B opposed to

3 It can be inferred from the 2nd paragraph of the

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

B The teacher is a proud of her work

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……

A humorous

B angry

C Suspicious

D admiring

Task 3:

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 parents 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

proud

• They They used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all.

• I used to eat ice-cream when I was a child

• Use: we use used to + infinitive

to express a past action and

state It has no present

equivalent.

c After you read

1.Discuss the problems of the deaf and the mute and other disabled people in their daily life and how they overcome them.2.Name some famous disabled people you know

Morla Rungan -wearing number

3375, the 1 st blind USA Olympic athlete

in 2000 in Sydney

Walking stick for the Blind

an American lecturer and writer

An American President.

Franklin Deland Roosevelt with disability

Hearing aids for the deaf

A Wheel chair for the disabled

-Learn new vocabulary by heart -Prepare for Speaking.

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