A goop party

“Please come to my party!” said Jenny to Prue;

“I’m going to have Willy, and Nelly, and you;

I’m going to have candy and cake and ice-cream,

We’ll play Hunt-the-Slipper,¹ we’ll laugh and we’ll scream.

We’ll dress up in caps, we’ll have stories and tricks,

And you won’t have to go till a quarter past six!”

Gelett Burgess [2]

¹Hunt-the-Slipper – «Отними туфлю» (детская игра: водящий стоит в середине круга и старается схватить туфлю, которую передают друг другу остальные играющин).

Unit 3 learnining disabilities in children

In this unit you will learn about individuals showing difficulties in learning to read and spell and/or do math. Before you start working with the text try:

a) to explain the term “learning disability” ['lə:nıŋ ֽdısə'bılətı] (необучаемость) in English.

2. To find synonyms and antonyms to:

contemporary, unexpected, outside.

2. to answer the following questions:

1. Have you ever experienced difficulties in learning to read and spell and/or do math?

2. What did you do to cope with such difficulties?

3. Do children having difficulties in learning show a special model of behaviour?

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

Mental, motivation, pioneers, British criteria, interpretation, material, dominance, meeting, sensory deficit, mathematical, neurological, academic problems, interpretation, neurologically, federal, cultural, cerebral.

e) to do the following phonetic exercises:

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

Deficient, deprivation, environmental, interfering, unexpected.

Ex.2. Read the following clusters with assimilation.

Both sides; physicians thought; introduced the; read to; said to; instead the; deficit disorder.

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

What, were, Hinshelwood, towards, was, when, we, wired, way, work.

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

Contemporary, average, experience, read, described, recognized, hundred, area, century, reports, brain, different, hemispheric, introduced, several, primary, exclusionary, retarded, comprehend, minority, reasons, trouble, related, distractibility, treated, separately, require, grade, classroom, friendships.

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

Learning, hearing, reading, spelling, proposing, meeting, having, decoding, hearing, lifelong, understanding, interfering, Pringle.

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

This; the; that; than; these; there; others; their; with; therefore.

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

Thought, 1930s, math, mathematical, throughout.

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

Individuals, visual, deprivations, motivation, even, under-developed, environmental, various, government, hyperactivity, evaluated, activities.

TEXT

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