Unit 4:
special education
Activity 2:
Look at the activities .
Which ones do you think would be difficult for the blind and the deaf?
Activity 1:
Make a list of the activities you do every day.
I. Warm up and presenting:
Look at the Braille Alphabet. Then translate the sentences into English
ARE
THE
WORLD
WE
Activity 3:
Some new words and structures:
Special (adj):
Deaf (adj):
Dumb (adj):
Proper schooling (n):
Opposition (n):
(v) oppose (+ to)
Make effort (v):
Kids = children
One by one :
Add(v):
Subtract (v):
Be proud of :
đặc biệt
Điếc
Câm
sự giáo dục đầy đủ
sự phản đối
Phản đối
nỗ lực

Lần lượt, từng cái một
Cộng, thêm
trừ, bớt
tự hào
II. Practise reading
Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow
A teacher in a special class
Match the words or phrases in A with their definitions B
Task 1:
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 classes because the children………..
A. are from large family. B. are less mentally developed
C. love Maths very much
At first the parents were ……….the idea of sending their children to the special class.
A. interested in
C. satisfied with B. worried about
It can be inferred from the second paragraph of reading passage that there has
been………….

B. a lot of protest from the parents against the class.
C. a feeling of doubt in teacher’s ability.
D. a belief in parents’ opposition
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

D. adding and subtracting are important.
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as………..
A. angry B. suspicious C. humorous
D. are disabled
D. opposed to
A. a change in the parents’ attitude towards the class.
C. the teaching work takes time.
D. admiring
III. Production:
Fill in the blanks of the summary below with a suitable word from the reading passage.
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 ideas , 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
read
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
maths
fingers
arms
proud
IV. consolidation:
Vocabulary concerning special education
The study of disabled children
Special education and Braille Alphabet.
HOMEWORK:


Learn by heart the words and their meanings in task 1, answer the questions in task 2
Prepare the Speaking of unit 4