Reading Unit 7

Xiaohua12-year-old girl, She is a happy girl who smiles a lot and likes to talk to her friends after school. However, she has lost her mother and she will lose her father. She was born dying. Xiaohua is a 12-year-old girl, She is a happy girl who smiles a lot and likes to talk to her friends after school. However, she has lost her mother and she will lose her father. She was born dying. What’s wrong with her? Introdution

Fast Reading

Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 Para. 6 Para. 7 A.What’s AIDS? D.How do people get AIDS? C.Thousands of children become infected with HIV every day. E.What kind of life does Xiaohua live? G.AIDS patients have to deal with people’s fear of the disease. F.Learn to live with HIV. B.Who is Xiaohua?

This passage mainly tells us________. A. how terrible AIDS is B. how miserable Xiaohua is C. what we should do towards AIDS and AIDS patients C

Reading

Scan the text and answer: Q1.What kind of disease is AIDS? AIDS is a disease that ______ ______ the body’s immune system and ______ a person defenseless against infections and illness. Q2.How did Xiaohua get AIDS? She got AIDS through ______. breaks dow n leaves birth

AIDS, which is caused by _____, can be transmitted via __________ sex, _______ blood __________ or through _______.AIDS, which is caused by _____, can be transmitted via __________ sex, _______ blood __________ or through _______. unprotected infected transfusionS birth HIV  As a result, million children were infected in infected in Q3.In what ways does AIDS spread?How many children were infected in 2002? 3.2

1. People will die immediately after they get AIDS. 2. Xiao Hua has hardly any hope to survive. 3. In 2002, 3.2 million children in the world were infected with HIV. 4. We should avoid any contact with AIDS patients. 5. Giving an AIDS patient a hug is the best way to show that you care him / her. F T T F T

Listening

Language points

短语 1.be born dying 天生快要死去 be born+adj/n be born a musician/a poet =a born musician/poet 天生的音乐家 / 诗人

短语 2.break down 毁坏 ; 分解 ;( 机器 / 车 ) 坏 ;( 计划 / 谈判 ) 失 败 ;( 谈话 / 通讯 ) 中断 ;( 身体 ) 垮了 ;( 精神 ) 失 控 break down the immune system 破坏免疫系统  计划失败 The plan breaks down.  身体垮掉了． The health broke down.  车抛锚 The car breaks down.

3. lack vt. 缺乏, 短缺 lack money/courage/ability/experience 缺钱 ( 勇气、能力、经验 )  lack n 缺乏, 短缺 常与 of 连用： a(the) lack of  lacking adj. 欠缺的, 不够的 be lacking in 缺乏 ( 品质特点等 )

短语  4.transmit… by doing sth  5.die of  6.cheer sb up  7.suffer from  8.as if It looks/seems/smells/tastes as if…  9.shake hands (with/sb)  10.persuade sb. to do sth.  (advise sb.to do sth.)  11.as long as 通过传播疾病 病 ( 饿、冻 ) 死 ( 使 ) 感到振奋 ; 为某人加油 遭受 ( 痛苦 ; 疾病 ; 损失等 ) 好像 常用于 : （ 与某人）握手 劝某人做某事 和 …… 一样长；只要

9. People who see Xiaohua would never guess that she is one of millions of children in the world living and dying with AIDS. =who is living and dying 看见过小华的人都不会想到她是世界上 患有爱滋病或因爱滋病而濒于死亡的几 百万儿童中的一个. 现在分词短语作定语

10. I would choose to be a doctor, helping these AIDS patients, … helping 现在分词短语作伴随状语 ① They went into the room, laughing and _____(talk). ② His parents died, _____ (leave) him an orphan （孤儿）. talking leaving

Post-reading Post-reading

Post reading: 1.What’s the difference between AIDS and HIV? 2.In what way does AIDS spread? HIV is the ___ that causes AIDS. HIV/AIDS spreads through unprotected ____, infected _____transfusions and through birth. virus sex blood

AIDS is a disease that_________ _________ the body’s immune system. HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, can be ___________ by__________ unprotected sex, infected blood transfusions or through birth. There are millions of people who_________ _________ AIDS every year. There is no cure __________ 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. All too often, people treat AIDS patients _________ _________ they were bad or dangerous. Because of ________ _________ __________ knowledge about how it gets transmitted, there are a great many people who have ___________ HIV in China and the number is increasing. breaks having die of available asif a lack of down transmitted contracted

4.Discussion: How should we act towards people who have HIV/AIDS? What can we do to help them? We should be helpful, friendly and understanding. We can help them by learning more about the disease and by treating them as normal people.

5.Dialogue

Homework 1.W rite a speech to tell people how to prevent AIDS. 2.Surf the Internet and get more information about AIDS. (Your choice)