Unit 3 A Healthy Life Using language
Teaching aims
Enable the students to learn something about AIDS and HIV.
Teaching important & difficult points
How to help the students to get the information about AIDS and HIV.
Teaching aids
tape recorder, slides
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead in
T: What is 1 December 2007?
World AIDS Day, 1 December 2007.
World AIDS Day is 20.
Slogan:
"Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise".
Slide show
President Hu Jintao (L) shakes hands with an HIV patient in a hospital in eastern Beijing
Friday morning.
Slide show
HIV is increasing in every region of the world.
International Statistics
People living with HIV:
33.2 million people living with HIV worldwide
30.8 million adults
15.4 million women
2.5 million children under 15
New HIV cases in 2007:
2.5 million total new cases
2.1 million adults
420,000 children under 15
HIV-related deaths in 2007:
2.1 million total deaths
1.7 million adult deaths
330,000 deaths among children under 15
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Step 2 Questions
What is HIV?
HIV is a virus that attacks the body's immune system-the body's defense against diseases. A person infected with HIV may not have symptoms to start with, but eventually without effective treatment the immune system will become very weak and they will no longer be able to fight off illnesses.
What’s a virus?
A virus is a very small living thing that causes disease.
What is AIDS?
艾滋病即获得性免疫缺陷综合征(acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS)。这是一种慢性致死性传染病,由人类免疫缺陷病毒(human immunodeficiency virus, HIV)引起。
Step 3 Quiz
T: Now let\s do a quiz and see how much do you know about HIV/ AIDS.
Slide show
True or False Quiz
1. Only bad people get AIDS.
2. It is dangerous to get close to a person with AIDS.
3. In 2002, there were more than 40 million people living with HIV/ AIDS in the world.
4.You can only get HIV from injecting drugs(毒品).
5. People who have HIV look different from everyone else.
6. Evidence show that men get AIDS more easily than women.
7. It is very likely that you will die if you become infected with HIV.
Keys: FFTFFFT
Step 4 Reading
Skim the poster on P22 and try to find out the purpose of each
section .
Section 1:
Background information about what the diseases.
Section 2:
Ways to protect yourself.
Section 3:
Some common myths dispelled.
2. Read the poster on P22 and then choose the answers to the following questions:
1. The word “homosexuals” means______.
A. People only attracted by the same sex
B. People who don’t care about themselves
C. People who are very sexy.
People who often have sex.
2. We can infer from the passage that__________.
HIV is the same as AIDS.
B. HIV is different from AIDS.
C. HIV weakens a person’s immune system.
D. You can have HIV in your blood for quite a long time.
3. In order to stay safe, you ____________.
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A. should not use the needle someone else has used.
B. have to avoid using anything else that the person has used while injecting drugs.
C. should use a condom if you have sex with another one.
D. All of the above.
Keys: A AD
Step 5 Discussion
1. What can I do to support World AIDS Day?
At school, you can support World AIDS Day by:
Having a dressing up, down or fancy dress day.
Putting up some posters - get people talking.
Making and selling red ribbons.
Organizing a creative writing/poster campaign.
Arranging a sponsored three-legged race or balloon release.
Getting your friends, family, to express their feelings and expand their knowledge about AIDS.
Using your imagination!
How much do you know about the AIDS red ribbon?
The red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness that is
worn by people all year round and particularly around World AIDS Day
to demonstrate care and concern about HIV and AIDS, and to remind
others of the need for their support and commitment.
2. How should we act towards people who have HIV/AIDS?
3. What can we do to help them?
Don’t look down upon them.
Show love and care to them.
Help them fight fear, shame and injustice (unfair).
4. Imagine what the world will be like if there is no HIV or AIDS.
Discuss in groups of three and then write a short passage about your
imagination.
Step 6 Homework
Read the passage Successful AIDS Programme in Yunnan in Reading
Task in the workbook and finish the questions.
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