UNIT 4: SPECIAL EDUCATION
(READING)
I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
1. Language Content:
- To help Students understand educational activities for the blind and deaf people.
- To provide students with new words relating to special education.
2. Language Function:
- To enable students to grasp some new words through skimming, questioning and answering.
3. Educational Aim:
- To help students to talk about their education
4. Language :
Vocabulary Deaf , Dumb (adj), Mentally retarded , Disable (adj).
5. Educational factor
- To educate the Students to try their best to study hard and get good grade.
II. TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION
1. Method Communicative Approach
2. Skills Integrated skills. (reading-speaking)
3. Techniques guessing, skimming, scanning , synonym , using pictures, …
4. Materials blackboard, chart,chalk , picture, textbook.
5. Students’ preparation prepare the lesson at home
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS
1- Stabilization (1’) Warm up: Greeting.
2- Checking up the previous knowledge : No
3- Presentation of the new materials:



Teaching steps
&Time
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
The lesson content

5’





7’







1. Lead-in
- Shows a picture to the students and asks them to guess what the symbols are about. ( Handout 1)
( Leads to the new lesson.
2. Pre- Reading
-Asks the students to work in pairs making a list of the activities they do everyday & what they think would be difficult for blind and deaf people.

-Gets them to look at the Braille alphabet & fin out the message below.
1. Lead-in
-Work in groups trying to find out the words needed.
Suggested answer:
SPECIAL EDUCATION
2. Pre- Reading
-Work in pairs asking and answering about what they do everyday
& then discuss what they think would be difficult for blind and deaf people.
-Work out the message
* Suggested answer:
We are the world

UNIT 4:
SPECIAL EDUCATION
(READING)


7’
- Pre-teaches some key words & phrases to help the students master the reading passage more easily.
Deaf (adj) (Mine /Action)
Dumb (adj) (Mine /Action)
Mentally retarded (picture)
Disable (adj) ( explanation)
Make effort (v) (Synonym)
-Checks the students’ memory by rubbing out the words in English and asks them to write down the rubbed ones.
-Listen and guess the meaning of the words.


-Take notes




- Try to remember the rubbed words and rewrite.
 I. Vocabulary
Deaf (adj)
Dumb (adj)
Mentally retarded
Disable (adj)
Make effort (v)
= try, attempt

15’
3.While-Reading
a/ Task 1:
- Lets the Students skim the text in three minutes
- Controls the class and helps the students .

- Gets Students to do the Task 1 and then compare with your partners.
- Calls on some Students to answer and corrects




b/ Task 2:
- Asks Students to scan the text and work in pairs to decide which options are suitable for each space
- Goes around the class and help Students if necessary
- Calls on some pairs to practice in front of the class and some pairs to repeat the correct answer.
- Gets some Students to write on the board.
- Corrects mistakes.
3.While-Reading
a/ Task 1:
-Read the text in three minutes
-Try to master the main content of the passage
-Practise individually & exchange their information each other
*Suggested answers : 1c, 2e, 3a, 4b, 5d.




b/ Task 2:
- Scan the text
-Work in pairs to practice asking and answering


-Practise in pairs in front of the class

- Listen to the teacher’s feedback
II.Reading comprehension
1/ TASK 1:
(Match the words and phrases inA with their meanings in B)
1. disabled
=unable to use a part of the body in the normal way
2.mentally retarded
=less mentally developed than normal
3. time-consuming
=taking or needing a lot of time
4. demonstration
= an act of showing or explaining how to do something
5. gradually
= slowly, over a long period of time
2.TASK 2:
(Circle the corresponding letter A, B, C, D