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A TEACHER IN A SPECIAL CLASS
Like other teacher, 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 family, 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 realized 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.

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I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim:
Students will be able to understand the term Special Education and talk
about it through Matching and Multiple Choice exercise
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge:
Students know the information about Louis Braille and the special classes
for disabled people
- Language:
Words related to disabled people
3. Skill:
Reading about Special Education
II. Method:
Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids:
Textbook, board, questions
IV. Procedures:
★ Warm - up
★ Before you read
• Activities we do every day
• Game
• Vocabulary
★ While you read
• Matching
• Completing the sentences
★ After you read:
• Summarizing
★ Homework

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WARM-UP
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
GAME
Look at the screen and choose the colour you like and then you
answer the question behind it.
WHAT IS HE/SHE DOING? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
B. STUDENTS ACTIVITIES
Choose the colour he/ she like and then answer the question behind it.
Yellow – The baby/ he is reading book.
Blue _ She is listening to music.
Orange – He is talking.
Green - He is playing football.
Violet - They are playing volleyball.
White - They are cycling in a race.
Grey/ black – They are watching a film.

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Reading, listening, talking and watching TV are the routine activities
of normal people. However, which one would be difficult for the
Blind, the deaf and the dumb?
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
The people
- unable to see - the blind
- unable to hear anything or unable to hear very well – the deaf
- unable to speak - the dumb/ mute.
Talking
Watching TV
Listening
the deaf
Reading
the blind the dumb
the blind
the deaf
not able to seeunable to speak
Which one would be difficult
for the blind, the deaf and
the dumb?
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Video clip of the deaf. How do the deaf communicate?
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
They use posture and gesture to communicate such as specific signs
using fingers.
How do the deaf communicate ?
They use posture and gesture to communicate
such as specific signs using fingers.
Talking
Watching TV
ListeningReading
Which one would be difficult
for the blind, the deaf and
the dumb?

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
This is American Sign Language for the deaf.
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
How do the blind read?
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
They have the BRALLE Alphabet and use their fingers to read.
How do the blind read?
They use their fingers to read.

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Work in group and work out the message that follows.
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
Answer: WELCOME TO OUR CLASS.
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Do you think that the blind can use cell phone?
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Could they type on computer keyboard?

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
This is disable people. “disable” what does it mean?
What does “mentally retarded” mean?
How can tell me what is the difference between “disable” and
“mentally retarded”?
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
“Disable”: tàn tật/ khuyết tật.
“Mentally retarded”: chậm phát triển về trí tuệ
Disable Mentally
retarded

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
“Disable” means: /“Mentally retarded” means:
Disable Mentally
retarded
disable somebody
to injure or affect
somebody
permanently so
that, for example,
they cannot walk or
cannot use a part of
their body
(of a person)
slow to learn or to
understand things
because of a
problem with the
brain
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Disable (v)
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
Disabled (adj) Disability (n)
disable (v)
/dɪsˈeɪbl/
disabled (adj)
/dɪsˈeɪbld/
disability (n)
/ˌdɪsəˈbɪləti/
the disabled
noun [plural]
people who are
disabled
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Mental (adj)
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
Mentally (Adv) Mentality (n)
Mental (adj)
/ˈmentl/
mentally (adv)
/ˈmentəli/
connected with or
happening in the
mind; involving the
process of thinking
mentality (n)
/menˈtæləti/
the particular
attitude or way of
thinking of a person
or group

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Retard (v) = slow
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
Retarded (adj) retardation (n)
Retard (v)
BrE /rɪˈtɑːd/
NAmE /rɪˈtɑːrd/
Delay, slow
Retarded (adj)
/rɪˈtɑːdɪd/
Retardation (n)
/ˌriːtɑːˈdeɪʃn/
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
mentally disabled
mentally retarded
mentally
handicapped
suffering from
a mental or
physical handicap
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Demonstrate (v) = explain = show ( = operate = expound)
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
Demonstration (n) demonstrative (adj) demonstratively (adv)
Demonstrate (v)
/ˈdemənstreɪt/
Demonstrative (Adj)
/dɪˈmɑːnstrətɪv/
to show and
explain how
something
works or how
to do
something
demonstration (n)
/ˌdemənˈstreɪʃn/
Demonstratively
/dɪˈmɑːnstrətɪvli/ (Adv)
Let me
demonstrate to
you how it
works.
You need to
demonstrate
more self-
control.
The teacher is
giving a
demonstration
to help her
students
understand
the lesson

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES.
Time – consuming (adj)
Look at the picture and make a sentence with 2 words (time –
consuming and traffic jam)
B. STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES.
Answer: It is time-consuming to get through a traffic jam.
Time-consuming (adj)
BrE /ˈtaim kənˈsjuːmɪŋ/
NAmE / ˈtaim kənˈsuːmɪŋ/
taking or needing a lot of time
It is time-consuming to get through a
traffic jam.
GAME: WHO HAS THE BEST MEMORY (TASK 1)
D E MO N S T R A T I O N
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
an act of showing or explaining
how to do something
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M E N T A L L Y
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
less mentally developed than normal
R E T A R D E D
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
taking or needing a lot of time
T I M E C O N S U M I N G
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
D I S A B L E D
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
unable to use a part of the
body in the normal way

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Reading
Task 2: Read the passage again and complete the following sentences
by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C or D.
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
(Line 1 to 5 in paragraph 2)
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
(Line 1 to 5 in paragraph 3)
6. How does Miss Thuy Teacher’s
activities the disable children in a
math lesson?
She raised both arms and opened
up her fingers one by one until all
ten stood up. She then closed the
fingers one by one. She continued
the demonstration until the
children realised they had just
learned how to add and subtract.
5: The writers’ attitude towards
Thuy’s work in the passage can be
described as________ .
A. humorous
B. angry
C. suspicious
D. admiring

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7. What does the passage talk about?
The special class
The disabled children.
The teacher:
her name is PHẠM THU THỦY
AFTER YOU READ
GAME: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Fill 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.
disabled
read write
efforts
The teaching work in the special
class is (7)_________________. For
example, in a (8)_________ lesson,
the teacher has to use her
(9)__________and (10)__________ to
teach the children how to (11)_____
and __________. The children are
now (12)___________and happy.
time-consuming
Maths
arms fingers
proud
add
subtract

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GAME: GUESSING
A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
1. He was born on July1st
, 1822 in Gia Định.
He is a great poet. He is a great poet. WHO IS HE?
UG ỄY
Đ
N
Ể
N
N
H
C
Ì
H I U
2. Born 4 January 1809
Coupvray, France
Died 6 January 1852 (aged 43)
Paris, France
Blinded in both eyes as a result of an early childhood accident, he
mastered his disability while still a boy.
He excelled in his education and received scholarship to
France's Royal Institute for Blind Youth.
While still a student there, he began developing a system of tactile
code that could allow blind people to read and write quickly and
efficiently.
LOUIS BRAILLE

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A. TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
These are some pictures of our school’ s club.
They are a volunteer. They spend time in hospitals, orphanages or
homes for the aged playing game, taking care of them or cleaning up
their houses.
Who can tell me the name of the club?
B. STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES
“The WHITE BEAR CLUB”- “ĐỘI CÔNG TÁC XÃ HỘI GẤU TRẮNG”
“Community support team – WHITE BEAR”
This is a club’s signs (club’s icon).

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- Learn the new words.
- Prepare part 2: Speaking.