Unit 4. Special education

Task 2.Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D Question 1 : Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the

Watch a video and answer the questions

2.Can the father speak?

3.What is he using to communicate

with her daughter?

 Vocabulary

What do you call people who can’t say?

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?

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

=Time-consuming

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 Task 1.Checking vo cabulary: Matching

Match the words in A with their definitions in B.

Task 2.Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the

corresponding letter A,B,C or D

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 (P1, L3&L4) 1

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

Answer 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.

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 )

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?

- Learn by heart vocabulary

- 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