Teacher: Bui Thi Hang
Grade 10
WELCOME TO ENGLISH CLASS
MAI ANH TUAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Unit 4: Special education
Teacher: Bui Thi Hang
Grade 10
MAI ANH TUAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Unit 4: Special education
Period: 20 – A: READING
WELCOME TO ENGLISH CLASS
* Warm up
Can you list all the activities in the pictures?
Read a book
Go to school
Play soccer
phone
Watch TV
Have breakfast
Sing a song
cook
Listen to music
easily ?
A special education
Braille Alphabet
W
E
A
R
E
T
H
E
W
O
R
L
D
* Pre-teach vocabulary
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
A: READING
disabled (adj) /dis ’eibld/
: be unable of doing S.t
dumb (adj): /d٨m/
opposition (v) : /, pә ’zi∫n/
opposing ideas
make effort (v): /efәt/
subtract (v) :/sәb ’trækt/ :
not being able to speak
try / attempt
mentally retarded (adj): / ‘mentәli ri ’tα:did/

Like other teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job. However, her class is different from other classes. The twenty-five children, who are learning how to read and write in her class, are disabled. Some are deaf, some dumb and others mentally retarded. Most of the children come from large and poor families, which prevents them from having proper schooling.
At first, there was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled children. They used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all. In the first week, only five children attended the class. Gradually more children arrived. Their parents realized that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.
Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how time-consuming the work is. During a 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. She continued the demonstration until the children realise they had just learned how to add and subtract. The children have every reason to be proud of their efforts. They know a new world is opening up for them.
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
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
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
Task 2: Read the passage again and circle the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION


Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Work in pairs try to 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 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 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
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
Maths
arms
fingers
proud
read
Teacher: Bui Thi Hang
Grade 10
WELCOME TO ENGLISH CLASS
MAI ANH TUAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Unit 4: Special education
Goodbye & See you again
MAI ANH TUAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Like other teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job. However, her class is different from other classes.
. Some are deaf, some dumb and others mentally retarded. Most of the children come from large and poor families, which prevents them from having proper schooling.
At first,
They used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all. In the first week, only five children attended the class. Gradually more children arrived. Their parents realized that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.
Watching Thuy taking a class,
. During a 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. She continued the demonstration until the children realise they had just learned how to add and subtract. The children have every reason to be proud of their efforts. They know a new world is opening up for them.
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
The twenty-five children, who are learning how to read and write in her class, are disabled
there was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled
children.
one can see how time-consuming the
work is
4. The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add andsubtract 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
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
Task 2: Read the passage again and circle the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION

Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Work in pairs try to 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 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 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
write
efforts
opposition
time-consuming
Maths
arms
fingers
proud
read
Teacher: Bui Thi Hang
Grade 10
WELCOME TO ENGLISH CLASS
MAI ANH TUAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Unit 4: Special education
Goodbye & See you again
MAI ANH TUAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Like other teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoys her teaching job. However, her class is different from other classes. The twenty-five children, who are learning how to read and write in her class, are disabled. Some are deaf, some dumb and others mentally retarded. Most of the children come from large and poor families, which prevents them from having proper schooling.
At first, there was a lot of opposition from the parents of the disabled children. They used to believe that their children could not learn anything at all. In the first week, only five children attended the class. Gradually more children arrived. Their parents realized that the young teacher was making great efforts to help their poor kids.
Watching Thuy taking a class, one can see how time-consuming the work is. During a 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. She continued the demonstration until the children realise they had just learned how to add and subtract. The children have every reason to be proud of their efforts. They know a new world is opening up for them.
A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
Task 1: The words in A appear in the reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
Look at the activities. Which ones do you think would be difficult for blind, deaf, and mute children?
Unit 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
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