Born Dying ---Reading
What do you want to know about HIV and AID?
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Xiaohua is a girl with AIDS.
What’s AIDS?
How do people get AIDS and how was Xiaohua infected?
Current situations of AIDS and reasons why it spreads fast in some areas.
Xiahua decides to use the limited time to do something to help others.
Xiaohua helps AIDS patients and tries to change people’s attitude to them.
Xiaohua has learnt to live with HIV.
Scanning: Get the main idea of each paragraph.
Read the text carefully and finish the following tasks.
Name
Age
Sex
Physical situation
Address
Parents
Xiaohua
12
female
in a southern province
unhealthy/ AIDS patient
AIDS patients
Basic information of the girl
What is AIDS ?
AIDS is a ________ that ____________ the body’s immune _______ and leaves a person defenseless _______ infections and illnesses. Most people who have AIDS ___________ survive only a few years after they get the disease. For some, medicine can help keep them ____ , but the ___________ is expensive and does not _____ them.
disease breaks down
alive
against
manage to
system
treatmentcrue
How do people get AIDS?
be infected with HIV
spread through
blood
other body liquids
unprotected
sex
receive infected
blood transfusions
through
birth
transmitted by
AIDS spreads fast in Africa
a lack of proper health care
a lack of prevention
a lack of education
In 2002, 800.000 children were infected and the total number of children with HIV/AIDS ______(be) 3.2 million .
was
Why is the disease spreading fast in Africa and parts of Asia ?
• not discouraged• encourage people to learn... • visit, support, cheer... up• create a network, persuade• talk to people
As an AIDS patient, what does Xiaohua do?
When we meet AIDS people, what should we do?
1.understand them
2. give them hug
Xiaohua has learnt to live with the HIV and the fact ____ she will one day ______ AIDS, but she is determined to ______ her life beautiful.
thatdevelop
make
1.Xiaohua is a happy teenager and likes to talk to her teachers after class. ( )
2.Most people with AIDS can only survive a few months. ( )
3.Medicine can help the people with AIDS and it can cure them at last. ( )
4.Xiaohua’s mother died of AIDS when Xiaohua was a child. ( )
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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.
1. Review the reading text carefully.
2. Learn the important language
points in it.