Unit4. Special education-reading

Unit 4: Special EducationA- Reading... Thuy’s class is different from other A.. At first the parents were _____the idea of sending their children to the special class.... It can be infer

What do you often do

every day?

Is it difficult for you to

do those things if you can’t see or you can’t

hear?

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

Louis Braille (1809-1852)

Unit 4: Special Education

A- Reading

A teacher in a special class

Reading passage:

New words

- to prevent sb from st/ doing st (V)

= Not to let sb do st

Ngăn cản ai làm việc gì đó

I- PRESENTATION

Tự hào vì cái gì/ ai

Cố gắng làm việc gì đó

(v) Cộng >< trừ (n) Sự cố gắng, nỗ lực

II- PRACTICE

Task 1:

pasage 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 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 circling the corresponding letter A, B,

C or D.

1 Thuy’s class is different from other

A are from other large families

B are less mentally developed

C love Maths very much

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

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 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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4 The writer descibles how THUY teaches the children to add and substract 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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5 The writer’s attitude towards

THUY’s work in the passage can be described as _

Fill each of the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the

reading pasage

III- FREE-PRACTICE

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 parens 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 to add and subtract The children are now and happy.

arms

fingers

proud

(1) (3)

(5)

(6) (7)

(10)

Good bye!!

The twenty-five children who are learning how to read and write in her class, are

Paragraph 1

Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how

both arms and opened up her fingers until all ten stood up She then closed the fingers one by one until all ten stood up She continued the (4)demonstration until the children realised they had just learned how to add and subtract

Paragraph 3

In the first week, only five children

arrived.

Paragraph 2