Unit 7 Living With Disease

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Unit 7 Living With Disease

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Teaching Goals of Reading

• 1. Talk about deadly diseases and attitudes
• towards them.
• 2. Know about the life of people with AIDS.
• 3. Know about the basic means of protecting us
• from being infected by HIV virus.
• ?4. Know how to care, share and show love .
• 5.To learn some useful language points.

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Leading-in
Pre-reading
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What is the life of a twelve-year-old girl full
of / like ?

sunshine
no worries no sorrows no harms
happiness
flowers
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smiles
dream
hopes
new hope
new life
tomorrow
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death
12 death ? !
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If you had an incurable disease, how would you
feel? How would you act towards the sudden
change?
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While-reading
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Skimming

• 1. What does the title mean?
• 2. What feeling does it give you?
• 3. What kind of story will the passage talk
  about?
• 4. What kind of words will be used?

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Scanning

• Find the key words and the main idea of each
  paragraph.
• 1. Xiaohua
• 2. AIDS
• 3. infected
• 4. children
• 5. little hope
• 6. suffer
• 7. live with AIDS

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Listening and answer

• 1. How was Xiaohua infected with AIDS?
• 2. In what ways does AIDS spread?
• 3. How many children were infected with AIDS in
  2002?

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Each year, more than 5 million people become
infected with HIV.
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In 2002, more than 40 million people in the world
were living with HIV or AIDS.
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Since the first case was discovered in 1981,
nearly 27 million have died of AIDS.
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Pre-reading While talking about AIDS, what other
diseases can you think of?
diseases
burn
coughing
deadly diseases
diabetes
osteoporosis
osteoporosis
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AIDS
Incurable?!
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Pair work Ask and answer questions based on the
main idea of each paragraph

• Para 1Xiaohua gets AIDS
• Para 2What AIDS is
• Para 3How Xiaohua got infected with AIDS
• Para 4Thousands of children get AIDS
• Para 5Xiaohua has a hopeless life but a clear
  aim
• Para 6People with AIDS suffer from more than
  AIDS
• Para 7Xiaohua is optimistic about her limited
  life

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Pair work

• Why do we say its incurable?
• Whats the full name of AIDS?
• Can AIDS be transmitted?
• In what ways can it be transmitted?
• What kind of people are likely to get AIDS?
• Do people with AIDS look healthy at first?
• Is it safe or dangerous to stay or to be
  friends with them? Why?

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Further Questions

• break down
• defenceless
• treatment, not available
• incurable

Q1 Why is AIDS a deadly disease?
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How is AIDS spread?

• AIDS, which is caused by _____, can be
  transmitted via __________ sex, _______ blood
  __________ or through _______.

HIV
unprotected
infected
transfusion
birth

• As a result, 3.2 million children were
• infected in2002.

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Q2 Why do the young suffer the most?
a lack of painful, difficult even if, not
infected, ruin

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Q3 Is the disease the only thing
that AIDS patients suffer from?

• fear
• ignorance
• misunderstanding

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Q4 What can be done to improve the
situation?

• by the government
• by specialists and doctors
• by other people
• by the patients themselves

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Q5 As an AIDS patient, what does
Xiaohua do?

• not discouraged
• encourage
• visit, support, cheer up
• create a network, persuade
• talk to people

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Q6 What are Xiaohuas wishes?

• I wish I could remember
• If I were to live long
• I wish people could
• If I were you

Q7 How do you find her? If you meet her, what
will you do to her?
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Post-reading Task
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Group work Discussion

• 1. Is Xiaohua unlucky? Why? Is Xiaohua
• lucky? Why?
• 2. What do you think of Xiaohua?
• 3. What have you learned from Xiaohua?
• What should you do as a healthy
• person?
• 4. What can you do for others?

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The first wealth is health. Live the
life to the fullest.

• Learn to express thanks to
• Learn to find pleasure in work / study / life
• If anyone shows their love, the world will be
  more beautiful!

show
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no worries no sorrows no harms
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Assessment

• AIDS is a disease that breaks down the
  bodys immune system and leaves a person
  defenceless against infections and illnesses.
  People get AIDS after having been infected with
  HIV, the virus that causes the disease.There are
  millions of people who die of AIDS every year.

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• So far, there is no treatment
  available for the disease and AIDS patients have
  to deal with the fact that they might die young.
  Unfortunately, a deadly disease such as AIDS also
  frightens others. Because of a lack of knowledge
  about how it gets transmitted, people often treat
  AIDS patients as if they were bad or dangerous.

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• Xiaohua is a 12-year-old girl. Though she
  has been living with AIDS for 12 years, she is
  not discouraged by the disease. On the contrary,
  it makes her realize how precious life is and how
  important it is to live life to the fullest.

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Homework

• 1. Retell the text about 100 words
• 2.Writing proposals to call on people to care for
  the patients

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• World AIDS Day
• is approaching, our school is planning some theme
  activities on that day and now it is collecting
  ideas from you students.

Your creations should include ? the
theme of this year ? different activities
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• Is it a good idea to invite Xiaohua to give us a
  lecture?
• If you were Xiaohua, what would you say to us?
  Please prepare a speech.

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Thank you!