3. How much do you know about Aids ? Are you familiar with this red ribbon? What’s it related to? What does it mean? Red ribbon is related to AIDS. It means that we should give AIDS patients l ove and care, understanding and support.

4. How much do you know about Aids ? HIV AIDS How does HIV destroy cells?

5. How much do you know about Aids ? What do the letters AIDS stand for? AIDS= Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome gained protection lack a group of diseases that make you sick

6. How much do you know about Aids ? How serious is the situation about Aids? It is reported by the UN that in the world 40,000,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS, of whom 3,100,000 have died this year.

7. How much do you know about Aids ? The first recorded cases of aids 1981-1990 This decade saw the first report of AIDS

8. AIDS QUIZ 1.Only bad people get AIDS. 2.I can become infected with HIV by swimming in a pool, holding hands or kissing someone with HIV. 3.In 2002, there were 42 million people living with HIV/ AIDS in the world. 4.People who have not injected drugs do not need to get tested for HIV. How much do you know about Aids ?

9. AIDS QUIZ 5.If I had HIV, I would know because I would feel sick. 6.HIV/AIDS is difficult to cure. 7.People who have HIV look different from everyone else. 8.It is safe to be friends with people who are living with HIV/AIDS. How much do you know about Aids ?

10. GUESS and SAY Guess and say GAME Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? Eating food with Aids Patients

11. GUESS and SAY Guess and say GAME Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? Using the toilet seat

12. GUESS and SAY Guess and say GAME Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? kissing

13. GUESS and SAY Guess and say GAME Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? Shaking Hands

14. GUESS and SAY Guess and say GAME Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? Hugging

15. GUESS and SAY Guess and say Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? Swimming with the AIDS patients

16. GUESS and SAY Guess and say Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? giving blood

17. GUESS and SAY Guess and say Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? unprotected sex

18. GUESS and SAY Guess and say Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes?

19. GUESS and SAY Guess and say Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? contaminated needles

20. GUESS and SAY Guess and say Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes? mother-to-child transmission

21. How do people become infected with HIV/AIDS? 1. Unprotected sex. 2. Injection drug use. ( share injection needles, cottons, etc. ) 3. From an infected mother to her infant. ( before and during birth, or through breast-feeding) 5. Blood transfusions. (rarely) 6. The health care setting. (rarely) How much do you know about Aids ?

22. Reading

23. A Read the following TV news special transcript quickly and answer these questions 1.What is this TV news special about? It gives some detailed information about Aids and how to fight the spread of Aids. 2.How many people around the world are infected with HIV every day? About 14,000 people 3. What places have been affected by Aids? Almost every country in the world has been affected by Aids.

24. Careful reading How well did you understand the details in the TV news special transcript? Read it again and answer the following questions.

25. 1.What does Aids stand for ? Aids stands for acquired immune deficiency symdrome 2. how many children have been affected by Aids so far ? About 18 million children have been affected by Aids, among whom 4 million have been killed by Aids and more than 14 million have lost their parents to Aids and become orphans.

26. 3.How does HIV affect the body? HIV is a virus that enters a person’s blood and attacks the body’s immune system, so the immune system is weakened, and then it gradually loses the ability to fight illnesses. Eventually the body’s immune system becomes so weak that the person becomes sick very easily. 4. What are the three ways Aids is transmitted? The three ways are unprotected sex, blood-to- blood transmission.

27. 5.What is being done in China to help control the Aids epidemic? China is working hard to control the epidemic, and has opened HIV/Aids labs to test and monitor the disease across the country. In 2003, the government started providing free Aids drugs for Aids patients in need. 6. What is the aim of UNAIDS? The aim of UNAIDS is to help prevent the spread of aids.

28. 7.What does UNAIDS do for people who think they might have the virus? It provides infected people with help from doctors and testing for people who think they might have HIV or Aids. 8. Why did Ajani not catch the virus from his mother? Because his mother has access to prescription Aids medications during pregnancy.

29. C2: write the correct letters in brackets. 1.the number of children who have lost their parents to Aids. 2.the number of HIV carriers in China 3.the number of people infected with Aids since the 1980’s 4.the number of people who will die of Aids between 2000 and 2020 5.the number of Aids patients in China 6.the number of people being infected with Aids per day 7.the number of children killed by Aids b 75,000 a >60 million c >4 million d about 14,000 e 650,000 f >68 million g >14 million ( ) g e a f b d c

30. D: Match them with correct meaning 1.far-off 2.scream 3.bathes 4.sob 5.cure 6.infected 7.subscribe to 8.estimates a. cry, especially in a noisy way b. remote, a long distance away c. spread illness or disease to people d. judgments that are not based on exact numbers or figures e. a loud cry f. a medical treatment that can get rid of illness g. agree with, support h. washes someone’s body with water

31. Answer to E 1.epidemic 2.immune system 3.cure 4.serious 5.Africa 6.Argentina 7.monitor 8.prescription 9.efforts 10.prevetion

32. What can be done to improve the situation?

33. by the government: by the government: by specialists and doctors: by specialists and doctors: by other people: by other people: by the patients themselves: by the patients themselves:

34. Language points

35. 1.In an African village, eleven-year-old Ajani hears a far-off scream as he washes his little sister in a bath that leaks water. 在非洲的一个村庄， 11 岁的阿加尼在给在漏水的浴 盆中的妹妹洗澡时听到了远方的一声尖叫。

36. 2. While he bathes her, he waits for his mother to return; he does not sob because no one has told him yet what happened. 当他给妹妹洗澡时，他等待着妈妈回来；他没有哭 泣，因为还没有人告诉他发生了什么事。

37. 3. sob n. 哽咽声, 抽噎 ( 声 ), 啜泣 ( 声 ), ( 风等的 ) 呼啸声 vi. 抽噎, 啜泣, 哽咽 ( 风等 ) 发出呜咽声 (sobbed; sobbing) The child sobbed loudly. 联想： cry: 放声大哭 sob: 呜咽，抽泣，泣不成声 weep: 小声或无声的哭，侧重流泪多，多用书面语

38. 4. Eventually, the immune system becomes so weak that the infected person can become sick very easily, and even common illness like the flu can be quite serious. 最终，免疫系统变得相当脆弱，被感染的人就很容 易生病，即使是最平常的病，比如流感，也会变得 非常严重。

39. 5. Although many people are familiar with Aids and how it is transmitted, more than a few people subscribe to the view that HIV and Aids are an African problem because the infection rates there are very high. 虽然很多人都熟悉艾滋病及其传播方式，还是有不 少人赞成这样的观点：艾滋病病毒和爱滋病是非洲 的问题，因为那里个感染率非常高。

40. 6. be familiar with: 熟悉 …… 的；通晓 …… 的 Are you familiar with this type of car? 你熟悉这种型号的汽车吗？ Are you familiar with the rules of baseball? 你熟悉棒球规则吗 ? He is familiar with Chinese ancient history. 他通晓中国古代史。 Cf: be familiar to 为某人所熟悉 The street was familiar to me. = I was familiar with the street.

41. 7. monitor n. 班长, 监听器, 监视器, 监控器 vt. 监听, 监视, 监控 radar( 雷达 ) stations monitoring enemy planes 监视敌机的雷达站 monitor an examination 监考

42. 8. The work that UNAIDS is doing to control the worldwide epidemic includes providing infected people with help from doctors and testing for people who think they might have HIV of Aids. 联合国爱滋病规划署正在做的控制这一全球性传染 病的工作包括为被感染患者提供医生的援助和为自 认为可能有爱滋病病毒或爱滋病的人提供体检。

43. 9. The organization also offers programmes that teach Aids prevention to young people and sets up treatment centres, where HIV-positive mothers can receive drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission. 这一组织还提供许多项目，这些项目教导年轻人预 防爱滋病，建立治疗中心，在这些中心爱滋病病毒 呈阳性的母亲可以得到药物以防止母婴传播。

44. 10. estimate vt. 估计, 预算, 估价（常与 at 连用） ; 评价, 判断（常与 that 连用） I estimate her age at 35. 我估计她有 35 岁。 estimate the cost of... 估计... 的成本 estimate one’s ability 评价某人的能力 n. 估计, 预算 ; 评价 at a rough estimate 据粗略估计 make an estimate of 给... 作一估计 ; 评价 联想： vt. evaluate 评价, 估计 vt. assess 估计, 估算

45. 11. access n. 通道, 通路 ; 入门, 进入 ; ( 能 ) 使用 / 接近 / 接触 (… 的权利或机会 ), 达到，得到 There is no access to the street through that door. 穿过那个门没有通向大街的路。 You can’t get access to the building without permission. 没有允许你不能进入大楼。 a man of easy access 易于接近的人, 平易近人的人 Students in out school have an easy access to the library (the Internet). 我校的学生能很方便的利用 / 接触图书馆 ( 因特网 ) have (gain, get, obtain) access to… 得进入 …, 能使 ( 利 ) 用 … ，得接近（触） … ☆提示： access 前通常不加冠词。