UNIT 4 SPECIAL EDUCATION

I. Pick out the words that have the italicized letter is not pronounced /n/ or / :/
commune rob condition follow
organize money force for _______________
sport stall talk shake _______________
4. sorrow employ organize work _______________
5. occupation opposition obligation obtain _______________
6. all computer water born _______________
II. Choose the correct words to complete the passage.
The New York Institution for the Blind was (1)..................... in 1831, about five years after Louis Braille had developed system of writing for the (3) ................ . It was one of the first schools in the United States to provide an (4)...............program for children who were blind or (5)............................ impaired. Early in the twentieth century the name was (6)................to The New York Institute for Special Education (NYISE) to better reflect the (7) ...................expanded focus and commitment to children with a variety of (8)......................
a. discovered b. founded c. located d. provided
a. the b. this c. his d. its
a. deaf b. blind c. mute d. disabled
a. educated b. educating c. education d. educational
a. visually b. mentally c. hearing d. badly
a. renamed b. adjusted c. changed d. developed
a. school`s b. program`s c. system`s d. founder`s
a. impairments b. injuries c. handicaps d. disabilities
III. Rewrite the sentences using a phrase with the and an adjective instead of the underlined phrases.
1. People who have lots of money have comfortable lives.
The rich have comfortable Lives.
We Five near special school for people who can`t hear.
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The old soldiers were holding a service for those who had died.
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The government should do more for people who do not have enough money
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I`m doing a course on caring for people who are mentally handicapped.
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We need to provide more shelters for people who are without place to live.
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People with severe disabilities need full-time care.
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Life must be hard for people who do not have a job in our society today.
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What can We do to feed people who do not have enough to eat
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Braille. is a reading system for people who are unable to see.
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IV. Complete the sentences using the adjective in brackets. Put in e.g. the hungry or the hungry people.
Rich nations can afford to feed the hungry
The homeless people whose story appeared in this paper last week have now found a place to live.
...................(sick) need to be looked after. so money must be spent on hospitals.
Some of .......................(young) at the youth club here are running in a marathon.
Life is all right if you have a job, but the , are not so easy for........................ (unemployed
There was a fire at a nursing home in-Charles Street .................. (old) who live there were hurt
What is the government doing to help .................(poor)?
.................(homeless) usually have great difficulty un getting a job.
There is a special television program for ...................(deaf) every Sunday morning.
................ (disabled) of our party were let in free
V. Write a sentence for each of the following using used or didn`t use to.
Dennis gave up smoking two years ago.
Dennis used to smoke a lot.
When Babara was in Italy, she stayed with an Italian family
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I quite like drinking coffee in the morning, although I wasn’t keen on it when I was younger.
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4. We seem to have lost interest in our work.
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I don`t mind traveling, by train now.
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I went to the church when I was a child.
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Since we`ve lived in the countryside. we`ve been much happier.
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Mr. Micheal grew tulips but he doesn`t any more.
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I prefer listening to classical music now, although when I was young I couldn`t stand it
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My sister looked so fat when she returned from Paris.
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VI. Choose the correct form of the verbs.
It is sometimes said that there is nothing new in the world of fashion. Annabelle was a well-known model during; the seventies. When her children were in their early teens they (1) were enjoying,/ used to enjoy looking at her old photo albums. They (2) were finding/ found it hard to believe that she (