Step 1: Lead in
First, let’s read a news report from the 18th World Aids Day
人类关于艾滋病的确切记载大都始于1981年。在此之前，我们对这种疾病一无所知。我们不知道在20世纪的70年代，或者更遥远的过去，有多少人感染了艾滋病，也不知道它究竟起源于何处。艾滋病从一开始就被笼罩在重重迷雾之中。虽然众说纷纭，其中不乏合理的猜测和颇有科学依据的推论，但还没有哪一种观点能够得到世人的公认。
1981年，美国率先发现了艾滋病。四年后，艾滋病登陆中国。
中国的一些艾滋病监测人员起初的习惯是，哪一个地区出现艾滋病感染者，就在地图上那一部分打上红点；2000年，这项工作停止了：中国地图上已经没有被艾滋病遗漏的省份。
目前，全球约有4000万艾滋病病毒携带者，其中250万为不足15岁的少年。非洲是艾滋病蔓延最严重的大陆，迄今共有2660万艾滋病病毒感染者，320万艾滋病患者，死亡230万人。
Go on to look at some pictures and discuss what these pictures have in common.
(Ask students to present the information about Aids they have collected before class.)
Today we are going to read the transcript of a TV new special, which is also about Aids. We will learn more about this deadly disease and what can be done to fight the spread of it.
Step 2: Fast-reading for general idea.
Go through the reading passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A. While reading you only need to focus on and identify the information needed to answer these questions.
1. What is this TV news special about?
2. How many people around the world are infected with HIV every day?
3. What places have been affected by Aids?
Answers: 1. It gives some detailed information about aids and how to fight the spread of Aids.
2. About 14,000 people.
3. Almost every country in the world has been affected by Aids.
Step 3: Careful-reading for detailed information
1. Let's read the passage again more carefully and try to finish part C1 after your reading.
(1) What does Aids stand for?
(2) How many children have been affected by Aids so far?
(3) How does HIV affect the body?
(4) What are the three ways Aids is transmitted?
(5) What is being done in China to help control the Aids epidemic?
(6) What is the aim of UNAIDS?
(7) What does UNAIDS so for people who think they might have the virus?
(8) Why did Ajani not catch the virus from his mother?
Answers:
1. Aids stand for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
2. About 18 million children have been affected by Aids, among whom more than 4 million have been killed by Aids and more than 14 million have lost their parents to Aids and become orphans.
3. HIV is a virus that enters a person’s blood and attacks the body’s immune system, so the immune system is weakened, and them 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. The three ways are unprotected sex, blood-to-blood contact and mother-to-child transmission.
5. 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. The aim of UNAIDS is to help prevent the spread of Aids.
7. It provides infected people with help from doctors and testing for people who think they might have HIV or Aids.
8. Because his mother had access to prescription Aids medications during pregnancy.
2. Read the guidelines in Part C2 to know what to do to finish this part. Part C2 serves as a strengthening activity, which requires you to get more detailed information about the serious situation of Aids in the world from the text.
Answers:
C2: 1 g 2 e 3 a 4 g 5 b 6 d 7 c
Step 4: Reading strategy
First, let’s read the reading strategy on page 35.
Now listen to the recording of the passage, paragraph by paragraph, and, while listening, to pay attention to the last sentence of each paragraph and the first sentence of the next paragraph. Try to find out how a paragraph is linked with the next one.
Step 4. Practice
1. Part D
Find these words in the text and try to guess their meanings according to the context, and then match the new words with their definitions.
Answers: 1 b 2 e 3 h 4 a 5 f 6 c 7 g 8 d
2.Part E
Neil is writing an e-mail to a friend about the TV programme. Help him complete the e-mail using the given words.
Answers:
1 epidemic 2 immune system 3 cure 4 serious 5 Africa
6 Argentina 7 monitor 8 prescription 9 efforts 10 prevention
Step 5: Discussion
1. What’s the serious situation of Aids in China? Why are there so many Aids patients in
China?
2. What has been done to deal with the situation by governments and international
organization?
3. What should be done and can be done to treat the Aids patients or HIV carriers?
(Divide the students into groups of four and ask each group to choose one of topics for discussion. After that get some groups to report their findings and opinions to the whole class.)
Step 6: Language Points
Vocabulary
Words
Aids, far-off, scream, bath, leak, bathe, sob, cure, outward, carrier, flu, unprotected, sex, percent, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeed, abortion, subscribe to, soul, distribution, scar, prescription, reporter, grandson, granddaughter, choke, penny, jog, lemon, sour, tasteless, promote, chairwoman, drawer, blank, swallow, bleed, salad, scold, youthful, messy, addictive, physically, toothache, capsule, thirst, digest, forgetful, slide, acute, withdrawal, additional, anchor
useful expressions
Subscribe to, body and soul, choke back, in some cases, death penalty, in the first place, at a frightening rate, be familiar with, bring attention to, have access to at risk,
sentence patterns 1. One of the first symptoms that most HIV-positive people have is a weakened immune system.
2. to avoid this, some infected women seek an abortion rather than risk their child’s health.
3. All of this makes it clear that something must be done to stop this deadly disease.
4. Dr David Ho, a Chinese American leading Aids expert, has devoted his body and soul to bringing up-to-date technology and international attention to China’s aids problem.
5. He believes that educating people at risk, as well as treating infected people, is the key to stopping the disease in the future.
Step 7: Homework
1 Finish Parts A1 and A2 on page 114 in the workbook.
2. Prepare the part Word power