Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Welcome everyboby

Unit :4 special education
perod 1: reading
Disabled children
Before you read
Look at the Braille Alphabet in the text book (page 44) and guess these words
Welcome to our class
A teacher in a special class
vocabulary
Disabled (adj): tµn tËt
Dump (adj) : c©m (not being able to speak)
deaf (adj) : ®iÕc ( not being able to hear)
Blind (adj) : mï (not being able to see)
Proper schooling) :enough and good study: häc hµnh ®Çy ®ñ
Opposition (n): disagreeing viewpoints : ý kiÕn ph¶n ®èi
Make effort (v); try : nç lùc, cè g¾ng
To be proud of (adj): tù hµo
While you read
Task 1: matching


A
1.disabled
2. mentally retarded
3.time-consuming
4.demonstation
5. gradually
B
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 2
read the passage again and choose the best answers
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
D. are disable
2. At first the parents were………………the idea of sending their children to the special class.
A. interested in B. satisfied with
B. opposed to D. worried about


D
B
3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been………
A. a change in the parents’ attitude toward 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
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

A
C
5.The writer’s attitude toward Thuy’s work in the passage can be describe as………………..
A. humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring
D
After you read
Read the passage again and answer these questions
1.why couldn’t the parents give their disabled children an education?
2. why did the parents oppose the idea of sending their children to the special class at first?
3.in what way Thuy teach the children how to add and subtract?
Suggested answers
1.because most of them come from large and poor family, which prevents them from having proper schooling
2. Because they used to believed that their children could not learn anything at all.
3.she raised both arms and open up her fingers one by one until all ten stood up. Then she closed the fingers one by one.
Home work
Task 3 (text book- page 46)