III. Write down the answers to the following questions

1. Are there special schools forintellectual backward pupils, deaf and dumb children and blind children in our country?

2. How much is teaching in special schools?

3. When was the decree of transformation the system of education issued?

4. What can you say about the Congress in 1920?

5. Which pupils did limited group include?

6. What educational program can children with handicaps profit?

7. What can children acquirein auxiliary schools for the intellectually backward?

8. What lessons have children in the first classes in special schools?

9. What are they taught in the classes for older children?

10. Are auxiliary schools useful for intellectual backward pupils, deaf and dumb children and blind children?

IV. Find the following words and phrases in the text and translate them into Ukrainian:

changes were introduced, intellectual backward pupils, deaf and dumb children, blind children, upbringing, defective hearing, born deaf children, deafened in early childhood, adult deaf, primary, secondary, higher, preschool, out-of-school education, physically handicapped children, deaf mutes, partially sighted, speech defects, restricted and adjusted program, auxiliary schools, grasp, phenomena, experience, acquire elementary skills, vocational education, education in agriculture, handwork lessons, school’s experimental garden, knowledge, native language, natural sciences, training in rhythmic, curative gymnastics, physical culture.

V. Find where in the text it is said about:

1. New radical changes in the system of education of the younger generation.

2. Many special schools were opened for intellectually backward children, deaf and dumb children and blind children.

3. A decree of July 5, 1918.

4. All-Russian Congress in June 24-July 2, 1920.

5. Restricted and adjusted program.

6. Vocational education.

7. Subjects which are taught in the auxiliary schools.

VI. Indicate whether each of the following statements is true or false:

1. The intellectual backward pupils, deaf and dumb children and blind children study at the general, common school.

2. The teaching at special schools is very expensive.

3. The intellectually backward child cannot grasp even the simplest connection and relations between objects and phenomena without the teacher’s help.

4. Vocational and practical education is successfully carried out in a number of auxiliary schools.

VII. Write the appropriate word or phrase in the following spaces:

1. In … there were no special schools for children with defective hearing, no nursery classes for born deaf children or those deafened in early childhood, and no educational establishments for adult deaf. 2. In order to set up a unified educational policy, the government issued …. 3. Among children of school age there is a limited group which cannot be taught in general, common school; this group includes …. 4. These children cannot follow the regular school program because of their … but they can profit by restricted and adjusted program.

VIII. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:

… children … school age there is a limited group which cannot be taught … general, common school; this group includes deaf mutes, the blind and intellectually backward pupils. 2. In fact the intellectually backward child cannot grasp even the simplest connection and relations … objects and phenomena … the teacher’s help. 3. Practical education … agriculture is successfully carried out … the final years … a number … auxiliary schools.