English Learning English Learning Shen Kailai In Qingyuan The Lecturer: Shen Kailai In Qingyuan Nov. 26, 2004

Unit 7 Living with disease BORN DYING

Fill in the blanks according to the text TASK 1 Revision Fill in the blanks according to the text

Poster for World AIDS Day Symbol: red ribbon Poster for World AIDS Day World AIDS Day

AIDS is a disease that _____________ a person’s im-mune system ** AIDS is a disease that _____________ a person’s im-mune system. Once a person _____________ AIDS, he or she usually dies of the disease ______ a few years. There are medicines and treatment __________ , but they are _________ and do not _____ the disease. HIV is the _____ that causes AIDS. HIV is transmit-ted through _____ and other body liquids and ________ through unprotected sex, _______blood transfusions and through birth. Xiaohua was infected through _____. Her mother died of _____ three years after Xiaohua was born. And her father also has ___________. In 2002, 800,000 children were infected and the _____ number of children with HIV/AIDS was 3.2 million. The disease is spreading _____ in areas where there is a ____ breaks down is infected with within available expensive cure virus spreads blood infected birth AIDS HIV/AIDS total fast lack

Think before you do it! Be friends with me! education of proper health care, prevention and _________ . Though Xiaohua knows that her life will be _____, she has decided to use her ________ time to do something positive. She spends much of her time trying _______ other AIDS patients. Together with a group of doctors and hospitals, Xiao-hua is trying to _______ the way people think about and _____ AIDS patients. She believes that people should do their best to __________ them and not be afraid to be _______ with them. Xiaohua has learnt to ________ with the disease and _______ to make her life beautiful. short limited to help change treat support friends live decides Think before you do it! Be friends with me!

Find the following quickly and try to understand the text: (goals) 1. deadly disease 2. attitude towards (warming -up)3. become infected with 4. feel sick 5. look different from 6. live with AIDS 7. be transmitted via 8. giving blood (reading) 9. born dying 10. smile a lot 11. break down 12. immune system 13. be defenseless against 14. manage to survive 15. keep sb. alive 16. spread through 17. blood transfusion 18. die of 19. take care of 20. be- cause of a lack of 21. proper health care 22. As with… 23. much too 24. across the country 25. cheer up 26. suffer from 27. contact with 28. spend…doing/on 29. find out 30. act as if 31. an AIDS specialist 32. know about 33. shake hands 34. give sb. a hug 35. the best way to do sth. 36. feel lonely 37. There’s no reason why

Pay attention to the following TASK 2 Language points Pay attention to the following

* Do you still remember Xiaohua? * What has happened to her? * What is her attitude towards the disease? She is a brave girl. She is not discouraged by AIDS. Instead, she tries her best to encourage and help other AIDS patients.

Competition * Try to find the antonyms of the following words. * Antonyms are words with opposite meanings. * Let’s see who can do it correctly and quickly.

Try your best!! defenceless — infect with — protected — incurable — discourage — visible — defensive immune to unprotected curable encourage invisible

Complete the sentences using the antonyms 1. In February 2003 some people got __________ with a strange disease and died within a month. 2. Although she met many difficulties, Helen was not __________. She continued struggling with the disease. 3. People think it a serious crime to attack ___________ children. 4. AIDS can be transmitted by having ___________ sex. 5. Having found out that the girl has got a disease which is __________ and will die soon, the boy decide to help her to make the last days of her life beautiful and meaningful. infected discouraged defenceless unprotected incurable

** Complete the following sentences with the help of the Chinese . 1. The doctor _____________ (诊断) my illness as a rare skin disease. 2. He has ___________ (恢复) from his bad cold and can go out tomorrow. 3. The disease makes her realize how ___________ (富有 意义的) life is. 4. The doctor told him that the wound had been infected, and that the ___________________ (受感染的伤口) will become deadly if it is not properly treated. 5. They are certain that this virus has been transmitted through the air, yet they have not been able to iden- tify the _________________ . （传播的病毒） has diagnosed recovered meaningful infected wound spreading virus

6. Bad news may discourage a patient, so it is very im- portant that doctors try to cheer up the ___________ _________（灰心丧气的病人）. 7. First the doctor takes a blood sample and has it tested. Then he will use the _____________________ （经过测试的血样）to find out if it is a serious disease. 8. You cannot delay the treatment any longer. You must stop working unless you want to deal with the risks of _________________（延误的治疗）. discouraged patient tested blood sample delayed treatment

1. break down immune system 2. leave … defenceless 3. infect with 4. live with 5. to the fullest 6. die of 7. available 8. deadly 9. a lack of 10. on the contrary Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the following words and phrases AIDS is a disease that ___________ the body’s _______ _______ and ______ a person __________ against infec- tions and illnesses. People get AIDS after having been _____________ HIV, the virus that causes the disease. There are millions of people who ________ AIDS every year. So far, there is no treatment ________ for the disease and AIDS patients have to deal with the fact that they might die young. breaks down immune system leaves defenseless infected with die of available

1. break down immune system 2. leave … defenceless 3. infect with 4. live with 5. to the fullest 6. die of 7. available 8. deadly 9. a lack of 10. on the contrary Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the following words and phrases Unfortunately, a ________ disease such as AIDS also frightens others. Because of ________ knowledge about how it gets transmitted, people often treat AIDS pa-tients as if they were bad or dangerous. Xiaohua is a 12-year-old girl. Though she has been ___________ AIDS for 12 years, she is not discouraged by the disease. _________________, it makes her realize how precious life is and how important it is to enjoy the life ____________. deadly a lack of living with On the contrary to the fullest

TASK 3 Learning the new words

1. live with 忍受(不愉快的事)，与…住在一起 ** You must live with the fact that you are an adult. / No matter how bad the situation may be, you must live with it. 2. deadly 致命的；极有害的；非常的 ** Cancer is a deadly disease. / A deadly silence filled the class. 3. imaginary 想象中的；虚构的 ** The story is not real, it is only imaginary. / imagina-tive 富于想象力的；爱想象的: an imaginative child 有想象力的孩子 / imaginable 可想像的；想像得到的

4 false adj. 错误的，假的，伪造的 ** false tales of bravery. 不真实的英勇故事 / false teeth 假牙 / false documents 伪造的文件 5. infect 传染；感染（精神） ** infect someone with 将……传染给某人 / be\become infected with 感染上，沾染上 / Some of them became infected with bird flu and died. / Her spirit infected me a lot. 6. via prep. 凭借，通过（某种手段或某人），经过，经由 ** (1) by way of 经过： I went to Beijing via Shanghai. 经过上海到北京 / (2) by means of 通过（某种手段或某人），凭借： I sent the letter via airmail. 通过空邮寄信

7. prevention n. 预防，阻止，防碍 prevent vt. ** prevent sb (from) doing sth = stop sb( from )doing sth = keep sb from doing // What can we do to prevent this disease spreading? 8. persuade 说服，劝服，使某人相信 ** persuade sb 劝服，说服某人 / persuade sb to do sth 说服某人做某事 / persuade sb into (doing) sth 说服某人做某事 / persuade sb out of (doing) sth 说服某人不要做某事 / per-suade sb of sth 使某人相信某事 / persuade sb that + 从句 使某人相信 9. defenseless 无防备的 ** defense / defence n. 防御；防卫 / defend v. 防卫；保卫 / defensive adj. 防御用的；防御性的

10. unprotected 无保护的；无防卫的 ** protect v. 保护；保卫；防御 / protect sb\sth from\ against 保护某人或某物使其免受…… / They built defence works to protect their city against attack. / protection n.保护 / protective adj. 保护的 11.. die of 病（饿、冻）死 ** die of（死于年老/情感/饥饿/疾病） / die from （因某种外因而死） / die for（为…而死）/ be dying 垂死 / be dying for sth. 想某物想得要死 / be dying to do sth 非常想做某事 ** In the old times, many people ________ hunger and cold. / The fish in that river all ___________ polluted water. / Many passengers __________ the terrible traffic accident. died of died from died from

13. proper adj. 合适的，适当的（没有比较级） 12. lack n & vt. / vi 缺乏；短少 ** 作名词时，常用 lack of 缺乏； 缺少 / She showed a lack of humour. ( 可加 a ) / I cannot buy the bike because of my lack of money. / The plant died for lack of water. ** vt. & vi. 缺乏，短少，没有 ( 常和介词 for 搭配; 用于否定句 ) I can’t buy the car because I lack (vt.) money. / She doesn't lack (vi.) for money. / be lacking in (wisdom, courage, humor) 缺乏(某种品质、特点等）不够…… 13. proper adj. 合适的，适当的（没有比较级） ** It isn’t proper to telephone him at this late hour. / a proper tool for the job 适用于做这个工作的工具 (常与介词 for 搭配)

14. available 可利用的；可达到的；有效的 ** You will be informed when the book is available. / I’m sorry, sir, those shoes are not available in your size. 15. discourage 使泄气；使失去信心 ** Don’t let one failure discourage you, try again. / dis-courage sb from doing sth 劝阻某人做某事 / discouraged 感到沮丧的 / discouraging 令人沮丧的 / encouraged 受到鼓舞的 / encouraging 令人鼓舞的 16. cheer 使高兴；使鼓舞;欢呼；喝彩 ** The boys cheered their football team. / Everyone was cheered by the good news. / A cheer arose from the crowd when he came. / Your visit has cheered the sick man up. / They all cheered up at the news.

17. Suffer from 遭受（痛苦、疾病、损失等） ** Every night he suffers from headache. / They suffered huge losses in the earthquake. / She was very generous to him but she suffered for it when he ran away with all her money. // suffer pain\hunger\punishment\losses 18. recover vt. & vi. 恢复；康复，弥补 ** He has recovered from his bad cold and can go out tomorrow./ She’s beginning to recover her strength after her fever. / Has the country recovered from the effects of the war? / She soon recovered herself and stopped crying. / He is very ill and unlikely to recover. 19. contrary adj. & n. 相反的；相对的； 反面

19. contrary adj. & n. 相反的；相对的； 反面 **Things at work seem to be going by contraries at pres-ent; I can’t get anything right. / “I believe you like your job.” “On the contrary, I hate it.” 20. for the moment （= for the time being) 暂时；目前 ** for the moment 暂时，目前 / at any moment/ time 随时 / at the moment 目前，现在 / at that moment 在那时 the moment (that) = as soon as / in\after a moment 过了一会儿 ( in 将来/过去时态 \ after 过去式 ) 16. （be) free from 不受……的影响, 无……的; (of) 免除 ** He wants to live a life entirely free from trouble. / If your wages are very small, you will be free of income tax.

TASK 3 Language points

Anne “Future” Discussion: * Should Anne go to meet her e-pal “Future”? ** Why or why not?

TASK 4 Grammar

Homework 1. Grammar—p.46 2. Practising—pp.117-119 3. Integrating skills—pp.47-48

Thank you. The End