to our class
Reading
Unit 4Special Education
Activity 1:Answer the following quiz
What do you call the people who can’t see?
What do you call the people who can’t hear?
What do you call the people who can’t speak?
The blind
The deaf
The dumb
Work in pairs, look at the pictures and answer the questions followed
Why is this person using his fingers to read?
2.What language is he using?
Work in pairs, look at the pictures and answer the questions followed
2.What language are they using?
Why are these persons using their hands to communicate?
Handout 1:Look at the Braille Alphabet in the text book and guess the words which are written in a, b, c.
mute
deaf
blind
Task 1:Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B.
Vocabularies
Thuy’s class is different from other classes because the children ________
are from large families
are less mentally developed
love Maths very much
are disabled
2. At first the parents were ______ the idea of sending their children to the special class.
Interested in C. satisfied with
Opposed to D. worried about
Task 2:Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
D
B

3. It can be inferred from the second paragraph of the reading passage that there has been ______
a change in the parents’ attitude towards the class
a lot of protest from the parents against the class
a feeling of doubt in the teacher’s ability
a belief in parents’ opposition

Task 2:Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
A
4. The writer describes how Thuy teaches the children to add and subtract in orfer to prove that______
The children like Maths
The teacher is proud of her work
The teaching work takes time
Adding and subtracting are important
5. The writer’s attitude towards Thuy’s work in the passage can be described as _________
A. humorous B. angry C. suspicious D. admiring
Task 2:Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A,B,C or D
C
D
After you read
(1) disabled (2) read
(3) write (4) efforts
(5) opposition (6) time - consuming
(7) Maths (8) arms
(9) fingers (10) proud
After you read
Work in groups of four and summarize the reading passage
THANK YOU
&
GOODBYE!!!!!

Look at these pictures

Who are they?
What are they doing?
Where are they?
They are disabled children.
They are in class
They are learning