Unit 4 special education a reading

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Teacher: Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy

Watch a video and answer the questions

1 Can the father speak?

2 What is he using to communicate with her daughter?

No, he can’t

Body language/ sign language (hand, face,….)

Louis Braille (1809 – 1852)

Thầy giáo: Nguyễn Ngọc Ký

Nguyễn Phương Anh

Đỗ Thúy Hà

Nick Fujicic

Lê Văn Công

Answer the questions

1 How do you feel if you can’t hear

and see anything?

2 How can blind people read?

3 What activities would be difficult for

people who can’t talk, hear?

What do you call people who can’t say?

They are dumb = mute ( câm)

Ex: We call the men in 2 pictures are .(?)

Mentally retarded

- Disabled people /dis'eibld /

Người tàn tật

What do you call people in

the pictures?

- to oppose to Sb/st (v):

 opposition (n):

Phản đối ai/ điều gỡ

Sự phản đối

Example: They don’t agree with each other They

oppose to others’ ideas.

Eg.: A teacher takes a lot of time

to prepare the lesson plan

The teacher is giving a demonstration to help

her students understand the lesson

demonstration (n) [deməns'trei∫n] sự thể hiện, sự thuyết minh

Gradually /'grædjuəlli/ (adv)

dumb [dʌm] (adj)

deaf [def] (adj)

mentally retarded ['mentəlɪ] [rɪ'tɑ:rdɪd] (adj)

disabled [dɪs'eɪbld] (adj)

opposition [, pə'zɪ∫n] (n)

prevent from [prɪ'vent] (v)

time-consuming [taɪm] [kən'sju:mɪŋ] (adj)

demonstration [demən'streɪ∫n] (n)

thiểu năng trí tuệ

sự chống đối ngăn chặn

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

Checking vo cabulary: Matching

Match the words in A with their definitions in B.

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

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

A interested in B opposed to

C satisfied with D worried about

Activity 1: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the letter A, B, C or D

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

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

Question 5 : The writers attitude towards Thuy’s

work in the passage can be described as

A humorous

B angry

C suspicious

D admiring

Nick Fujicic Nick Fujicic

Braille

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Activity 2: Read the text again and anwer the questions

1.Who is the teacher of the special class in the text?

4 Why didn’t the parents take their children to attend the class at first?

5 How did the teacher teach the children how

to add and subtract?

2 How many children attended the class in

the first week?

3 How many children are there in Thuy’s

class? Who are they?

1.Who is the teacher of the special class in the text?

 Pham Thu Thuy is the teacher of the special

class.

2 How many children attended the class in

the first week?

 Only five children attended the class in the

first week.

3 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.)

 She raised both arms and opened up her fingers

one by one until all ten stood up She then

closed the finger one by one

 Because they used to believe that their children couldn’t learn anything at all.

4 Why didn’t the parents take their children to attend the class at first?

5 How did the teacher teach the children how

to add and subtract?

Fill each the blanks of the summary below with a

suitable word from the box.

write disabled opposition

time- consuming efforts fingers

Twenty-five(1) _children have the chance of learning how to read and (2) _ thanks to the (3) _ of a

young teacher, Pham Thu Thuy.

Although her idea, at first, met with(4) from the

parents of the disabled children, more children attended her

class later.

The teaching work in the special class is (5) _ For example, in a Maths lesson, the teacher has to use her arm and (6) _ to teach the children how to add and subtract The children are now proud and happy.

disabled

opposition

time-consuming fingers

( adj )

( n )

( adj ) ( n )

- Learn by heart vocabulary

- Read the text and do the taks again

- Prepare the next lesson: “UNIT 4: B

SPEAKING”: find out new words, their meaning, put the questions into the

passage, answer the questions about

their school using the questions in task 1

NGƯT Nguyễn Ngọc Ký viết bằng chân và kể chuyện với học sinh về ý chí, rèn luyện để trở thành người

có ích cho xã hội.

DEAF MUTE BLIND

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

1 (P1, L3&L4)

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

C a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability

D a belief in the parents’ opposition

3

(P2, L8,9,10)

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

4

(P3, L1)

Question 5 : The writers attitude towards

Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as

Congratulation

T F

1T 1F

Statements

1 In 1995, Sally joined the Star Sports Club.

2 There are five people in her family.

4 She likes not only sports but also reading.

3 She has a lot of free time.

5 She wants to be a writer.

Activity 1:

doesn’t have lots of free time

a sports teacher

(I live with my family, my parents and two brothers)

(I was born in 1980, …when she was 15, I joined the Star Sports Club)

I like different sports,… – just sitting at home and reading

Task 3: Ask and answer the questions

4 What did Miss Thuy use to teach the children to add and subtract?

3 What prevents the children from having proper schooling?

6 Does Miss Thuy like her teaching job?

5 How do the children feel after attending the class?

 They live in a poor family.

Task 3: Ask and answer the questions

they?

3 What prevents the children from having proper schooling?

4 What did Miss Thuy use to teach the children to add and subtract?

 They feel proud.

5 How do the children feel after attending the class?

Task 3: Ask and answer the questions

6 Does Miss Thuy like her teaching job?

Look at the pictures and say what he/she/ they is / are doing

Which one do you think the blind and deaf have difficulty doing?

Congratulation

Match the name of Olympic athletes with the right picture.

1 What would happen to the disabled

children if a special class was not organised for them?

2 Why couldn’t the parents give their

disabled children an education?