(Fragment)

Time will say nothing but I told you so,

Time only knows the price we have to pay;

If I could tell you I would let you know.

…………………………………………….

There are no fortunes to be told, although,

Because I love you more than I can say,

If I could tell you I would let you know.

……………………………………………

Wystan H. Auden [2]

Unit 7 the ways of teaching visually impaired

In this unit you will learn about how visual impairments influence children’s behaviour. Before you start working with the text try:

a) to explain the term “visual impairment” ['vızjuəl ım'pεəmənt] (ухудшение зрения) in English.

b) to find synonyms and antonyms to:

concrete, responsible, peer.

2. to answer the following questions:

1. What is visual loss for you?

2. Can people without visual imagery have a complete picture of the environment?

3. What have been already done for such people by medicine?

d) to guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations without using the dictionary.

Etiology, concrete, sensorimotor, intervention, cataract, albinism, period, amblyopia, glaucoma, group, nystagmus, optic nerve atrophy, retinitis, strabismus, style, result, instruction, cognitive, resource, symbol, naturally, specially, proprioception, characteristics, material, regular, contact, transcribes, Braille.

e) to do the following phonetic exercises:

Ex. 1. Transcribe and pronounce the words given below.

Congenital, glaucoma, itinerant, nystagmus, revalence.

Ex. 2. Read the following clusters with assimilation.

Trained teachers; motivated to; connect the; at the.

Ex.3. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [w] correctly.

With, wich, toward, awareness, without, ways, one, acquire, want, words, between, word.

Ex.4. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [r].

Prior, retain, imagery, differently, require, prematurity, areas, reach, erroneous, provides, direction, interpret, experience, parents, enriched, receive, relate, inappropriately, descriptions, impressions, rely, react, interact, straight, appearance, current, print; Frenchman, raised, grade, contracted, increase, trained, responsible.

Ex.5. Pronounce the words from the text containing the nasal sound [ŋ].

Affecting, handicapping, learning, resulting, including, young, during, remaining, hearing, regarding, furthering, acquiring, pointing, increasingly, smiling, siblings, becoming, young, looking, speaking, standing, positioning, initiating, joining, grooming, dressing, reading, writing, using, spelling, providing.

Ex.6. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiced sound [ð].

Although, with, the, those, that, they, further, their, gathering, without, furthering, others, these, this, than, others, there, thus.

Ex.7. Pronounce the words from the text containing the voiceless sound [Ө].

Youth, through, retinopathy.

Ex.8. Pronounce the words from the text containing the sound [v].

Visual, prevalence, vary, individual, severity, development, visually, vision, severe, intervention, environment, motivated, severe, provides, observation, conservation, convey, even, prevents, overuse, verbal, develop, various, disadvantages, evaluated, every.

TEXT

Scan through the text to understand its main ideas. Use the given vocabulary notes.