Unit 4: Special Education

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The 20 period
Date:
Grade 10
Theme: Special Education
Unit 4
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
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, raising questions
IV. Procedures:
Teachers activities
Students activities
Warm-up: (3 minutes)
- Greeting
- Greeting
- Whos absent today?- Thanks
- The monitor answers
- Where did you stop last time?
- Answer in chorus
- Open your book and we will go to Unit 4:
Special Education
Pre-reading: (10 minutes)
- Raising some questions:
* What do you do everyday?
* Do you go to class? listen to music? watch
T.V?
- Take notes students answers on the
blackboard
* Which of these activities would be difficult
for disabled people?
Ok, people who cannot be able to listen and
watch are called deaf and blind people.
* Who can say nothing?- Good
* How can they communicative with each
other?
* How can blind people read?
Well, there was a person- a man invented the
letter systems for blind people to help them

- Open the books and listen

to the teacher
- Answer freely

- Listen to the teacher

- dumb people
- use signals
- We dont know (maybe
students
answer
by

Notes

read easily. He was Louise Braille. He came

from France. He was a blinded in a childhood
accident.
- Look at Braille Alphabet (on the page 44) and
work with your partner about the message
- Give answers:
A. we
B. are
C. the
D. world
While-reading: (20 minutes)
- Open your books
Task 1
- Ask students to read through the passage
individually and do Task 1
- Raising some questions about the passage:
* Whos in the passage?
* What does the passage talk about?
* How many children are there in her class?
* Who are they?
* Do they go to school?
* Why do you know?
- Explain new words:
proper schooling (n) = enough and good study
* What do the parents of the disabled children
think? Which line helps you know? Which
word?
opposition (n) = disagreeing viewpoints
* How does Miss Thuy Teachers activities the
disable children in a math lesson?

Vietnamese)
- Listen to the teacher

- Look at the books

- Work in pairs
- After guessing, correct the
answer under the teachers
construction

- Read individually

- Miss Thuy
- special class
- 25
- disable people
- No, they dont
- in 4th sentence

- They believe that the

children could not learn
* How are the children?
anything at all ( 2nd
sentence-2nd paragraph)
- Ask students to do matching in chorus
- She raised both arms and
- Confirm the correct answers
opened up her fingers (2nd
sentence- 3rd paragraph)
- They are proud of their
efforts
Task 2
- Call on some students to read aloud each part Key:
of the passage
1.C-2.E-3.A-4.B-5.D
- Check pronunciation
- Ask students to read the passage again more
carefully and do the task 2
- Ask some students to give their answers
- Listen to their friends
- Correct the answer

1.D - 2.B - 3.A - 4.C - 5.D

Post-reading: (10 minutes)
- Ask students to read the passage in pairs and
fill the blank of summary using suitable words
from the passage
- Go around and provide help
- Call on some students to give answers
- Confirm the correct answers for students to
check and write down
- Call on some students to read the completed
summary aloud in front of the class

Homework: (2 minutes)
- Summarize the passage into 5 sentences
- Do the exercises in the workbook

- Read the passage and do

the task

- Listen to the teacher

- Read in pairs and do the

task

- Listen to the teacher

attentively and check the
answers
- Listen to their friends
Key:
1.disable-2.read-3.write
4.efforts-5.opposition6.time-consuming- 7.maths8.arms-9.figers 10.proud
- Write down
notebooks

on

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The 21ts period

Date:
Grade 10
Theme: Special Education
Unit 4
Speaking
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- talk about school life of a student
- actively engage in an interview
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know how to talk about school; make an interview and
reporting on results
- Language: words related to school life
3. Skill: speaking about school life of students fluently
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative

III. Teaching aids: textbook, board, raising questions, hand-outs

IV. Procedures:
Teachers activities
Warm-up: (2 minutes)
- How are you today?
- Are you ready for new lesson?
Pre-speaking: (15 minutes)
- Give hand-outs to review the names of
subjects at school
-Ask students to work in pairs
- Give answers:
1.C-2.D-3.G-4.F-5.B-6.I-7.E-8.A-9.H
- Ask some questions:
* What are your favorite subjects?
* How much time do you prepare for
your lesson everyday?
OK, today, we will go to Lesson:
Speaking to talk about school life of a
student
While-speaking: (25 minutes)
Task 1
- Ask students to read the answer before
choosing the best questions
- Ask students to work in pairs to fill in
the blanks with the right questions
- Call on some students to explain their
answers
- Give correct answers
A.4-B.1-C.2-D.6-E.3-F.5-G.7
- Call some pairs to read the completed
conversation
- Check pronunciation
Task 2
- Ask students to use his/her own
information to answer the questions
- Instruct students to do this task by using
following information
Hand-outs
- Ask students to work in pairs with 3
students (2 practice interviewing, 1 take
notes) and carry out the interview, using
the questions in Task 1

Students activities
- Answer freely

- Do the exercise in hand-out

- Work in pairs
- Correct the answers

- Answer freely
- Listen to the teacher

- Read the answers and do the

task 1
- Work in pairs

- Listen to their friends

- Listen to the teacher
attentively then correct the
answers

- Listen to the teacher

- Work in pairs and do the task

2 under the construction of the
teacher

Notes

- Help students use some questions

related to words, such as:
What subjects were you good/ bad at?
How much homework did you have to
do?
- Check whether students can make
questions or not by giving the previous
words and let students to make questions
using those words
- Practice speaking in pairs
- Go arround and provide help if
necessary
Task 3
- Ask students in each pair to tell about a
school life of a student by using
information that was taken note in front
of the class
- Some students to tell a school
- Check pronunciation if necessary
life of others in front of the
- Give comments and correct mistakes
class
- Give marks

Post-speaking: (2 minutes)
- Summarise the main points
Homework: (1 minutes)
- Ask students to write a short paragraph
about his/her studying at school (80-100
words)
- Listen to the teacher and write
down on the notebook
The 22nd period
Date:
Grade 10
Theme: Special Education
Unit 4
Listening
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students will be able to listen better through True of False
Statements and Gap-filling exercises
2. Knowledge:

1. Lauras daughter bought a horse and

call it Laura.
2. John wants to watch Walter wash the
dog.
- Call some students to read aloud these
sentences in front of the class
Ok, today Ill introduce to you 2 vowels /
/ and / : /
+ Listen and repeat
- Read all the words 1st time clearly
- Ask students to listen and repeat
- Remember them the way to pronounce
two sounds:
/ / is a short sound
/ : / is a long sound, put the back of
your tongue up a little
- Ask students to repeat several times to
help them distinguish the difference
between 2 sounds
+ Practise these sentences
- Read all the sentences
- Read each sentence and ask students to
repeat
- Call on some students to read aloud the
sentences in front of the class
- Check and correct pronunication
Grammar and vocabulary: (25
minutes)
Exercise 1
- Ask students to work in groups with 3
members: read all the words and check
the meanings
- Ask all groups do the exercise
- Help students by giving suggestions:
find key words in each sentence to
complete the exercise more quickly
Ex:
2nd sentence: accident injured
3rd sentence: job unemployed
- Call on some students to give the
answers
- Check and give correct answers
Note:
We use the + adjective to describe a
group of people as a whole

- Listen to their friends

- Listen to the teacher

- Listen and repeat
- Take notes quickly

- Listen to the teacher

- Repeat following the teacher

- Work in groups and do the

excercise

- Listen to the teacher and write

on the notebooks

- Correct the answers

Key:
2. the injured
3.the unemployed

Example: the rich = rich people (a group 4. the sick

of people who are rich)
5. the rich/ the poor
Exercise 2
- Ask the question:
What did you use to do when you were a
child?
- Let students review the structure used
to + infinitive: we use this structure to
express a past habit
- Give some examples to help them
understand clearly (both negative and
question)
- Ask students to do the exercise
- Let students compare their answers with
a friend
- Check the answers as the whole class
- Give correct answers

Exercise 3
- Ask students to read through the
exercise
- Remember them the function of each
column: A and B
- Help them review the relative clause
with relative pronoun which
Which can be used in relative clauses to
refer to the whole of the earlier clause
- Ask students to work in pairs and do the
exercise 3
- Check the answers as the whole class
- Give correct answers

- I used to
- Review the structure and write
down on the notebooks
- Listen to the teacher

- Work in pairs
Key:
2. used to have
3. used to live
4. used to eat
5. used to be
6. used to take
7. used to be
8. did you use to go

- Read the exercise

- Retell the relative clauses with

which

- Work in pairs

- Correct the answers

Homework: (2 minutes)
Key:
- Ask students to do the exercise in the 2.d-3.f-4.g-5.a-6.c-7.b
workbook
- Listen to the teacher and write
on the notebooks