Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the words and expressions in the text:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
3. Get the students to learn about how to protect themselves from Aids.
Teaching Important Points:
1. Learn to use the words and expressions in the tex t:
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the students understand the text exactly, especially the following sentences:
Teaching Methods:
1. Fast reading to get a general idea of the text.
2. Careful reading to get the detailed information.
3. Asking-and-answering to help the students understand the text exactly.
4. Pair or group work to make every student work in class.
Teaching Aids:
1. the multimedia
2. a tape recorder
3. the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step Ⅰ Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step II lead in
Have a quiz.
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 love and care , understanding and support .
How does HIV destroy cells?
What do the letters AIDS stand for?
AIDS= Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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.
The first recorded cases of aids
True or false questions
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.
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.
Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes?
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)
Step III Skimming
T:OK.Now please listen to the tape first and find the answers to the questions on the screen.
(Teacher shows the questions on the screen, and the students begin to read the text.)
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.
.Step V Reading
Read the text and then finish the following tasks:
Careful reading
C1.How well did you understand the details in the TV news special transcript? Read it again and answer the following questions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
D Match them with correct meaning
1.far-off a. cry, especially in a noisy way
2.scream b. remote, a long distance away
3.battles c. spread illness or disease to people
4.sob d. judgments that are not based on exact numbers or figures
5.cure e. a loud cry
6.infected f. a medical treatment that can get rid of illness
7.subscribe to g. agree with , support
8.estimates h. washes someone’s body with water
Answer to E
1.epidemic
2.immune system
3.cure
4.serious
5.Africa
6.Argentina
7.monitor
8.prescription
9.efforts
10.prevetion
.Step V discussion:
What can be done to improve the situation?
by the government:
by specialists and doctors:
by other people:
by the patients themselves:
.Step VI Language points:
There is no cure for HIV or Aids
cure n. 药方; 治愈; 解决办法
There's no known cure for a cold.
治疗感冒尚无良方。
She tried every means to cure her child of the bad habit.
她想尽一切办法试图改掉她孩子的这个恶习。
There is no cure for rising prices
没有解决物价上涨的办法
There is no cure for HIV or Aids
cure v 治愈[(+of)]
Penicillin cured him of pneumonia.
青霉素治愈了他的肺炎。
Antibiotics help to cure many diseases that were formerly fatal.
抗生素有助于治疗许多以前会是致命的疾病。
That nasty shock cured him of his inquisitiveness for ever.
那沉重教训根除了他凡事爱打听的毛病.
HIV and Aids are spreading across the world at a frightening rate
rate n. 比率, 等级, 程度
Our investment accounts return a high rate of interest
我们的投资项目利润回报很高。
That's one part of the job done at any rate.
不管怎么说，这个工作已经做了一部分了
They drove at a steady rate.
他们以平稳的速度开车。
At this rate, we shall soon be bankrupt.
这样下去的话, 我们很快就要破产了.
Unexpected sex is the most common way that the virus is spread, accounting for 75 per cent of adult infections worldwide.
A).common; ordinary; general;
common强调“常见的”、“ 不足为奇的”如：
Colds are common in winter.
感冒在冬天很常见。
ordinary强调“平常的”、“平淡无奇的”如：
His ordinary supper consists of only bread and milk.
他通常的晚餐不过是面包和牛奶。
general意为“普遍的”、“一般的”， 如：
This book is intended for the general reader, not for the specialist.
这本书是为一般读者写的， 不是为专家写的
B). account v. 解释; 报帐;把...视为
I have an account with Midland Bank.
我在米德兰银行开有户头。
Too much rain accounted for the poor crop.
太多的雨水导致庄稼歉收。
He could not account for his absence from school.
他无法说清楚为什么旷课。
He was accounted a first-rate actor.
他被认为是一流演员。
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 problems…
A). familiar. 熟悉的
She wrote in a familiar style.
她用亲切的笔调写作。
I am of course familiar with your work.
我当然熟悉你的工作。
This nursery rhyme is very familiar to me.
我对这首摇篮曲很熟悉。
B). transmit v. 传输,传播;转送,;发报
They are trying to find a better way of transmitting energy.
他们正试图寻找一种更好的输能方法。
I will transmit the money by special messenger.
我将专门派人送这笔钱。
Rats transmit disease.
老鼠传播疾病。
The message was transmitted by radio.
这情报是用无线电发送的。
Parents transmit some of their characteristics to their children.
父母把一些特有的素质遗传给儿女。
estimate vi. 估计,估价,评价
I asked a contractor to estimate for the repair of the house.
我请了承包商估计修缮这幢房子的费用
The medicare cost is estimated to be one billion dollars.
老年医疗保健费用估计为十亿美元。
It is estimated that his income at/to be about 8000 a year.
估计他一年的收入大约8000英镑.
Step VII Homework
Preview the text.
Finish Exercise in the work book..