Look at the pictures and answer the questions
1. What is the matter with the man and the girl?
2. Can they read or write?
3. By what way do they read and write?


Look at the article for the blind below and answer the question.
What is the name of this language ?
The Braille

It is a system of raised dots representing
the letters of alphabet, punctuation and numbers
Look at the Braille alphabet and work out the message that follows
Braille Alphabet
Work out this message
Here is the answer
Can you guess the topic of our lesson today?
Unit 4
Special Education
Lesson 1: reading(1)
I- Before you read
Part a
schools for disabled children are called special schools. Work in groups and name some schools you know
Nguyen Dinh Chieu special school for the blind
Xa Dan Special School for the Dumb and Deaf
Binh Minh Special Primary School
Vo Thi Sau Special Primary School

Part b
Look at the pictures and answer the questions
What are the people in the two pictures doing?
They are using their fingers to read.
Can you guess their disability?
They are blind
what are the people in the picture doing?
They are using their hands to express what they mean.
What is the name of that language?
It is sign language
Can you guess their disability?
They are dumb.
1. what do you call the people who cannot see?
Part c: Quiz
work in pairs and answer the questions
2. what do you call people who can not hear?
3. What do you call the people who cannot speak?
Answers to these questons
1. what do you call the people who cannot see?
The blind
2. what do you call people who cannot hear?
The deaf
What do you call the people who cannot speak?
The mute / dumb
Look at the picture below and answer the questions
1.What does the message in the picture mean?
2.Do you know who wrote this message?
3.Who is she?
4. why is she famous?
5. what is special about her?
New words
Dedicated (a)
To devoted oneself to smth.
(tận tụy, tận tâm)
Consciousness(n)
awareness, a person’s conscious thoughts and feelings.
(nhận thức, ý thức)
Alphabet code (n)
(mã của chữ cái)
Painstakingly (adv)
Carefully, industriously
(cần cù, cẩn thận)

Manual alphabet (n)
Fingertip alphabet (n)
(bảng chữ cái được diễn đạt bằng cử chỉ bàn tay của người câm, điếc)
Gifted (a)
talented (a)
(có tài, có năng khiếu)
Interpret (v)
to translate
(dịch, giải thích)

II. Reading text
Part a
read the text about Helen Keller and put the following events of Helen Keller`s life into chronological order. The first one has been done for you.
put the following events into chronological order
1.She was born in 1880
2 She became blind and deaf.
3 She met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
4 She met Anne Sullivan
5 She learned Braille
6 She graduated from Radcliffe college
7 She gave lectures and traveled to many countries

Key to part A
Home work
-Learn all new words by heart and make sentences with them
-prepare for the next period