Unit 7 Living with Disease
Unit 7 Living with disease
Teaching Plan of the reading part
Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: defenseless, illness, treatment, liquid, unprotected, sex, lack, proper, discourage, cheer up network, ability.
2. Train the students’ reading ability
3. Practice talking about imaginary situation.
Teaching Important Points:
1 Master the following words and phrases: a lack of , cheer up, deal with, wish, as if
2 Understand the text exactly.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the students understand the text exactly, especially some sentences with special verb-forms used in the Subjunctive Mood
Teaching Methods:
1 Pre-reading activity to predict what the text tells about
2.Fast-reading to get a general idea and careful reading to further understand the text.
3 Post reading to check the students’ understanding of the text.
4 Explaining to help the students understand the text better.
Teaching Aids:
1 a tape recorder 2.a computer and a courseware 3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
Step One: Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual
Step Two: Revision and Lead-in
T: As we know , everyone will get ill in his whole life, And most of the time, illness can be cured sooner or later. However, some diseases can’t be cured. We call them incurable disease. Such as AIDS and cancer and so. Yesterday we had an AIDS quiz, by which we’ve known more about AIDS. Let’s first rivise it.You have already known the transmittion routes of AIDS.Can you tell me something about it ?
T: Can cups or glasses transmit AIDS virus?
Ss: No.
T:Can toilet seats transmit AIDS virus?
Ss: No.
T: Is it safe to be friends with people who are living AIDS?
Ss: Yes.
T: Very good. Today we are going to read a text about a person living with AIDS. Look at the title of the passage, Born Dying .Can you tell me the title’s meaning.
Ss: It means when a person is born with AIDS, he is dying soon.
T: Quite right.Look at the photo of Xiaohua,she is a lovely girl who smiles a lot.The passage tells us a girl who has been infected with HIV through birth. She fought against AIDS bravely. And from the story we can understand Xiaohua’s optimistic attitude towards the disease. and the precious spirit of fighting against disease. the text also tells us how to deal with the AIDS suffers. how to care for them .and warn people of loving life, do what we can to make our life more meaningful and beautiful.
Step Three:Reading
T: well, Before reading the text , please write down some questions you think will be answered in the text. I give you two minutes to prepare.
1.What is AIDS? What is HIV?
2.How do people get AIDS?
3.How do people prevent AIDS?
4. How did the person in the text get AIDS
?
5.How does a person live with AIDS?
Step Four:I have already ask you preview the text before class ,don’t look at you books .please look at the picture find the answers
1. What kind of person is Xiaohua?
She is a 12-year-old teenager
2.How did she get AIDS?
She got AIDS through birth
3.Can people contact her?
Yes, they can.
4.Does she feel discouraged?
No, she doesn’t.
Step Five: Read the text quickly ,find out the main idea of each paragraph
Para. 1 Who is Xiaohua
Para. 2 What’s AIDS?
Para. 3 How do people get AIDS?
Para. 4 Thousands of children become infected with HIV every day.
Para. 5 What kind of life does she live?
Para. 6 AIDS patients have to deal with people’s fear of the disease
Para. 7 Learn to live with HIV.
Step Six: Decide which of these statements are true and which are false.
1.Xiao Hua is a happy teenager and likes to talk to her teachers after class.( F )
2. Most people with AIDS can only survive a few months( F )
3. Medicine can help the people with IDS and it can cure them at last( F )
4. Xiao Hua’s mother died of AIDS when Xiao Hua was a child( T )
5. Xiao Hua has hardly any hope to survive. ( T )
6. Xiao Hua still decided to do something to help other AIDS suffers. ( T )
7. Contacting with AIDS suffers is always dangerous. ( F )
8.Xiao Hua thinks her life is still beautiful though she is suffering from AIDS. ( T )
Step Seven:
T:Well done, Now please read it carefully again and add more questions to your list so that you have at least one question for each of the main points in the text . Then work in pairs to ask your partner to answer your questions.
1: Why is AIDS a deadly disease?
AIDS is a disease that breaks down the body’s immune system and leaves a person defenseless against infections and illness.
2. In what ways does AIDS spread?
3.
AIDS, which is caused by HIV, can be transmitted via unprotected sex, infected blood transfusion or through birth. As a result, 3.2 million children were infected with HIV virus in 2002.
4. Where is the disease spreading fast? Why? Who suffer the most?
5.
In Africa and parts of Asia, mainly because of a lack of proper health care, prevention and education. The young suffer the most.
4. As an AIDS patient what does Xiaohua do?
use the limited time to help others
not feel discouraged
encourage people to learn how to protect themselves
visit other AIDS suffers, support them and cheer them up
create a network of patients and doctors persuade hospitals and companies to spend money on AIDS research and education .talk to people
5: What are Xiaohua’s wishes?
I wish I could remember more about my mum.I wish that she were here with me and that we weren’t sick.…
If I were to live long enough to have a job, I would choose to be a doctor, helping these AIDS patients.…
I wish people could would find out the facts and not act as if I were a bad or a dangerous person.
If I were you ,I would give an AIDS patient a hug. That is the best way to show that you care and that we don’t have to feel lonely.
6.Is the disease the only thing that AIDS patients have to suffer from?
** No. They also have to deal with people’s fear of the disease, ignorance and misunderstanding
7.What is the best way to show that you care about AIDS patients?
Giving an AIDS patient a hug.
8.Can you tell us the difference between AIDS and HIV?
HIV is the virus that caused AIDS. AIDS is a kind of incurable disease. People get AIDS after having been infected with HIV virus.
9. What can be done to improve the situation?
by the government:
by specialists and doctors:
by other people:
by the patients themselves:
Step Eight: Read the text carefully and choose the best answer
( B )1.If a person gets AIDS , he/she___
A.will certainly die in a few years.
B is left defenseless against infections and illnesses.
C will be unable to receive blood transfusions.
D can be curd by a very expensive medicine
( D ) 2.AIDS spreads fast in areas where____
A natural disasters often happen
B People like touching and being touched
C many old habits and customs are still kept alive.
D there’s a lack of proper health care, prevention and education.
( D )3.What are the means of being infected with AIDS?
A Through blood and other body liquids
B. By having unprotected sex.
C. Through birth D. All of above
( C )4.The passage mainly tells us_____
A how terrible AIDS is B how miserable Xiaohua is
C what we should do towards AIDS and AIDS patients
D how to help Xiaohua
( B )5.Xiaohua will probably agree that___
A people should never give an AIDS patient a hug
B people should change the way they treat AIDS patients
C most people have a good knowledge of AIDS
D enough money has been spend on AIDS research and education.
Step Nine: Fill in the blanks according to the passage.
1.AIDS is a disease that(breaks down)the body’s immune system.
2.It’s hard for us to guess that Xiaohua is one of the children who is (living and dying)with AIDS.
3.HIV can spread through (birth),and other body(liquids).
4.Xiaohua’mother died of AIDS at the age of (28),leaving Xiaohua’s (father)taking care of her.
5.In 2oo2, about(3.2)children suffer from AIDS in the world.
6.Xiaohua said if she could have a job in the future, she would become a(doctor).
7. she has decided to use her (limited) time to do something positive
8.According to Xiaohua, the best way to show that you care is to(give An AIDS patient a hug)
Step Ten: Summary and Homework:
T: In this class, we’ve not only learned more about AIDS , but also learnt how to act towards people who have AIDS. We should call on all the people to fight against AIDS. Besides we’ve learned some useful words and phrases as well as some useful structures with the Subjunctive Mood used in it. After class, please read the text more times to make sure you’ve really understood it and master the useful language points.