Warm up

1. Warm up Make a list of the activities you do everyday. Then ask your partners which ones he/she thinks would be difficult for blind and deaf people

2. reading newspaper doing exercise listening to music routines studying going shopping playing games watching TV playing football

3. Unit 4: Special Education • Period: Reading

4. Vocabulary They are disabled Disabled(adj) [dis'eibld]:khuyếttật

5. The teacher is giving a demonstrationto help her students understand the lesson demonstration (n) [deməns'trei∫n] sựthểhiện, sựthuyết minh

6. What can we call 2 men in 2 pictures ……….? They are mentally retarded mentally retarded: chậmpháttriểnvềtrítuệ

7. Vocabulary 1.disabled (adj)[dis'eibld]: khuyếttật 2. demonstration(n)[deməns'trei∫n]: sựthểhiện, sựthuyết minh 3. mentally retarded:chậmpháttriểnvềtrítuệ 4. opposition (n) [,ɔpə'zi∫n] :sựphảnđối 5. make an effort:cốgắng, nỗlực 6. time-consuming (adj): tốnthờigian

8. Question: What is the difference between Thuy’sclass and other classes?

9. Task 1:Matching the words in column A with their definitions in column B KEY: 1.c 2.e 3.a 4.b 5.f 6.d

10. Task 2: Read thepassage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.

11. 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. The evidence (Line 2 to 4 in paragraph 1) “Thuy’s class is different from other classes. The twenty-five children, who are learning how to read and write in her clas, are disabled”

12. 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 The evidence (Line 1 to 5 in paragraph 2) “At first, there was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled children. They used to believed that Their children couldn’t learn anything at all”

13. 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 The evidence (Line 4 to 9 in paragraph 2) “In the first week, only five children attended the class. Gradually more children arrived. Their parents realised that the young teacher was made great efforts to help their poor kids”

14. 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. The evidence (Line 1 to 5 in paragraph 3) “Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see howtime-consuming the work is. During the maths lesson,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”

15. 5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as....... A. humorous. B. angry. C. suspicious. D. admiring

16. Task 3: Read the passage again and answer the following questions • How many children are there in her class? • 2. How are they ? • 3. Do they live in poor or rich families? • 4. What does the teacher use to teach the children maths? There are 25 children in her class. They are disabled. They live in poor families. The teacher uses her fingers to teach the children maths

17. Homework • Learn by heart all the new words • Do the gap-filling exercise in your textbook (page 46).