English trainning

UNIT 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION

A. READING
Before you read
  • Make a list or the activities you do every day. Then ask your partner which ones he / she thinks would be difficult for blind and deaf people.
  • Which activities do you think may be difficult for blind and deaf people?
While you read
Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow.

Teachers in a special class

Like other teachers, Pham Thu Thuy enjoy her teaching. However, her other classes with other classes Hiệt. Twenty-five students, are learning reading and writing in her class. are disabled children. Some are dumb. several other deaf and retarded children. The majority of the children are the children of poor families and many children, that they may hinder a proper education.
     First there is a lot of opposition from the parents of disabled children. They used to think that their children can not learn anything. In the first week, only five children to class. Gradually many more children came. Their parents noticed that the young teacher struggling to help their children miserable.
      Thuy class driver observation, we easily see that the work could take a long time how. During math, she put both arms and put her fingers each finger one until all ten fingers taken up before. Then she gives the finger to each finger one. She further notes until the kids we just learned sense of how addition and subtraction. The child has every reason to be proud of their efforts. We know a new world is opened to them.

Task 1The words in A appear in ihe reading passage. Match them with their definitions in B.
 

Task 2Read the passage again and complete the following sentences by circling the corresponding letter A.B.C or D.











After you read 
Fill in each of 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 idea, at first, met with (5) .......................... from the parents of the disabled children, more children attended her class later. The touching work in the class í (6) ........................
 For example, in a (7) .................. lesson, the teacher has to use her (8) ................... and (9) .......................... to teach the children how to add tad subtract. The children are now (10) ....................... and happy.

B. SPEAKING 
Task 1The questions in the interview below has been left out. Work with a partner and fill in the blanks with the right questions.
1: What were your subjects then?
2: What was your time-table?
3: What about homework?

4: Which Lower-secondary school did you go to ?
5: What part of the school life didn’t you like then?
6: Can you tell me about the tests and examinations at your school then?
7: What did you like best about your school then?
Interviewer: (A) .................................................Hanh: I went to Long Bien Lower-secondary School in Ga Lam, Hanoi 
Interviewer:
Hanh: Well, I went to school in the morning and I often had five classes.
Interviewer:
Hanh: Well, we had different kinds of tests, you know. Oral tests, fifteen-minute tests, forty-five-minute tests and the final examination at the end of the semester.
Interviewer:
Hanh: It's different with every teacher. Some liked to give a lot of homework and others didn't.
Task 2. Interview your partner, using the questions in Task 1. 

Task 3Tell the whole class what you know ahout your partner. 

C.LISTENING 
Before you listen
Work in pairs. Fill in each of the blanks with one word from the box. 



While you listen

Task 1Listen to some information about a photography club and decide whether the statements are true(T) or false(F).



Task 2Listen again and fill in each blank with a suitable word. 



After you listen
work in group. Retell the story about the Vang Trang Khuyet Photographic Club.

D. WRITTING 
A letter of complaint

Task 1After studying for two weeks a English for Today Centre, you notice that everything is worse than what the advertisement says. A friend of yours wants to know about the centre and ask you tell him / her the facts.

Work in pairs. Complete the dialogue belowe.







 
Task 2Using the information from the dialogue in Task 1, complete the letter of complaint below.



              The Dircctor                                                                                                           53 Ho Xuan Huong Street                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Ha Noi - Viet Nam
               731 Van Xuan Street
               Ha Noi - Viet Nam                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      English for Today Centre                                         
                                                                                                                                            22nd February, 2006
Dear Sir,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
I am writing to complain about the poor quality of the service at your centre. Everything seems to be worse than what you say in the advertisement.
         First, You say all the teachers at the centre are only the native, but in fact there are only some of them, and to make the matter more worse, a lot of them are professional at all.
       Second, most of the classes are more than 20 students. And in the advertisement, you say books and tape cassettes are free, but we had to pay for them. And the thing that annoys us so much is most of the rooms are not air-conditioned.
           Finally, the class time is not the same as that in the advertisement: classes tin late and finish early!
        To resolve the problem, I require you to give me the refund. Enclosed is a copy of the receipt
           I look forward to hearing from you and to getting a quick resolution of problem. Please contact me at the above address or by phone at (04) 7. 222999.
Yours faithfully.
Do An Duc
E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
  •  Pronunciation : [D ] - ( a:)
  • Grammar and Vocabulary    1, The + adjective
                                                               2,Used to + bare infinitive
                                                               3,Connector Which  

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