Reading and Vocabulary DevelopmentUnit 2 Lesson 5 How Do Many Hearing-Impaired People Talk? Hearing-impaired people cannot hear sounds well . How do they “hear” words?
Many hearing-impaired people use sign language. They talk with their hands. Two hearing-impaired people can talk to each other. They both use sign language. Sometimes a person who can hear interprets for hearing-impaired people. The person listens to someone talking, and then he or she makes hand signs.
There are two kinds of hand signs. Some hand signs are for whole words. For example, there is one hand sign for the word love. There are hand signs for different actions. things, and ideas. Some of the signs are very easy, for example, the signs for eat, milk, and house. You can see what they mean. Others are more difficult, for example, the signs for star, egg, and week.
The second kind of hand sign is fingerspelling. In fingerspelling, there is a sign for every letter in the alphabet. For example, to fingerspell the word love, a person makes four different signs. It is much slower to fingerspell, but it is useful for signing names and technical words. People can use both kinds of hand signs together.
Each country has its own sign language. For example, American Sign Language (ASL) is very different from British Sign Language. Using sign language is almost like a dance. The whole body talks . Sign languages are beautiful.
1. True, false or No Information .
1) Hearing-impaired people cannot hear sounds well. ( )
2) A person who interprets for hearing –impaired people cannot hear.( ) 3) There are more signs for whole words than for letters. ( )
4) Japanese Sign Language is the same as American Sign language. ( ) 5) Fingerspelling is useful for names and technical words. ( ) 6) It is difficult for children to lean sign language.
2. Circle the number of the main idea of the text.
1) Sign language helps hearing-impaired people talk , but it is difficult to learn. 2) There are two kinds of sign language.
3) A sign language is a beautiful language that help hearing-impaired people talk to others.
3．Put the right word in each blank.
idea example interprets both each other
whole sign dance hearing-impaired difficult stars 1) Mary cannot hear very well. She is __________.
2) Ali works for the government. He __________ Arabic and English. 3) A large _______________ on the wall says “No smoking”. 4) Masako and Carlos speak English to __________. 5) Nadia and David __________ study engineering.
6) You cannot see the ___________in the sky during the daytime. 7) Japanese is a _______________ language. It’s not easy.
8) The ______________ class is here today. No one stayed at home. 9) There is a ______________ for students on Saturday. 10) The class wants to have a party. It’s a good ___________.
3. Write the verb form of each noun below
relaxation ---- description------- belief -------- weight----- excitement----- evaporation----- interpretation------
(完整word版)初中生英语课外阅读Unit2Lesson5HowDoManyHearing
