unit4 reading grade 10

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... Qu[r]

What is he doing?

He is listening to music.

What is he doing?

He is watching TV.

Picture 4

She is reading books.

What is she doing?

Picture 5

He is singing

What is he doing?

Which of the activities above do you

think would be difficult for people who

can’t speak , can’t hear or can’t see .

EX: Watching T.V is

difficult for people

who can’t see

4 Can he learn in our

Today we are going to read

a passage about a teacher in

a special class whose

how hard her work is.

Lesson1:Reading

Reading

1 Vocabulary:

 Dumb (adj): câm

 Mentally retarded: chậm phát triển trí tuệ

 Disabled (adj) tàn tật

 Time- consuming (adi) mÊt nhiÒu thêi gian

 Opposition: (n) sự phản đối

 Demonstration (n) sự minh họa

 Make efforts : = try : cố gắng, nổ lực

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

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2 Reading Task 1: Read the passage again and choose the best option A,B,C or D

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

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

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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

Task 2: Match right paragraphs with the right tittles

Paragraphs Tittles

1 Paragraph 1

2 Paragraph 2

a The attitude of the parents of the

disabled children toward the class.

b Why Thuy’s class is different from

other classes

c A description of what Thuy did in a

maths lesson.

P1: Why is Thuy’s class different from other classes?

+ Some are deaf + Some are dumb + Others are mentally retarded

P2: What is the attitude of the parents of the disabled children toward the class

- At first, they were opposed to the idea of sending their children to the class

- Later, more children attended

-P3: What did Thuy do in a maths lesson?

- She raised her arms

- She opened up her fingers one by one

What did she do like that for?

-What do you think about the teacher in

this special class?

- She loves her children

- She enjoys her teaching job although it is a hard work.

- With great efforts, she is opening up a new world for her disabled children who seem to have been unable to learn anything at all.

Discussion:

How about the students in this class?

- They are disabled and have poor living-

condition

- Thanks to their teacher’s help, they have the chance of learning how to read and write,

how to add and subtract

- With great efforts, they have got over

difficulties and believed in their bright future

-HOMEWORK: Fill each the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the box ( P46)

read write disabled efforts opposition

time- consuming Maths arms fingers proud

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.

disabled

opposition

time-consuming Maths

( n ) ( n )

( adj )

2 Reading: Task1: T/F

statements

 1 Thuy doesn’t like her teaching job.

 2 The students in Thuy’s class are from rich families

 3 At first there were not many children attending the class.

 4 She raised both her arms and opened

up her fingers to teach her children how

to read and write.