1. Unit 7
Living with disease
Born dying

2. Warmming up deadly disease kidney lung disease cold liver headache
fever
smallpox
eye disease
toothache
heart disease
deadly disease
AIDS SARS Bird flu Cancer

3. HIV= human immunodeficiency virus (人体免疫缺损病毒，艾滋病病毒)
HIV & AIDS
HIV= human immunodeficiency virus
(人体免疫缺损病毒，艾滋病病毒)
AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome
(爱滋病, 获得性免疫功能丧失综合症)

4. HIV
AIDS
Incurable?!

5. What is your attitude towards AIDS patients

6. Born Dying
Xiaohua A Child Living with HIV

7. Scanning: Get the main idea of each paragraph. Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3
Xiaohua is a girl with AIDS.
What’s AIDS?
How do people get AIDS and how was Xiaohua infected?
Thousands of children become infected with HIV every day.
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.

8. Xiaohua is a __12岁的_____girl in South China ____has HIV/AIDS.
Para 1
Who is XiaoHua?
Xiaohua is a __12岁的_____girl
in South China ____has HIV/AIDS.
Her life is _正常的__ today , but
_像___millions of other children
With HIV/AIDS ,she is living and
______with the disease.
12-year-old
who
normal
like
dying

9. What is AIDS ?
Para 2
AIDS is a ______ that breaks _____ the body’s immune system and leaves a person defenceless _______ infections and illnesses. Medicine can help keep patients ____ , who just manage ______(survive) only a few years.
disease
down
against
alive
to survive

10. Para 3 How do people get AIDS? blood other body liquids
be infected with
spread through
HIV
transmitted by
unprotected
sex
receive infected
blood transfusions
through
birth

11. Why is the disease spreading fast in Africa and parts of Asia ?
Para 4
a lack of proper health care
AIDS spreads fast in Africa
prevention
education
In 2002, children were infected and the total number of children with HIV/AIDS ______(be) 3.2 million .
was

12. What does Xiaohua do in her limited time? What is her wish ?
Para 5
What does Xiaohua do in her limited time?
What is her wish ?
Spends… telling…/encouraging…
help others
support them
visit other AIDS patients to
cheer them up
If she __________ (live) long enough to have a job, she _____________ (choose) to be a doctor , _________(help) these AIDS patients.
were to live
would choose
helping

13. Para 6
How is Xiaohua, together with a group of doctors and hospitals trying to change the way people think about and treat AIDS patients?

14. Para 7
Xiaohua has learnt to live with the disease and the fact ____ she will one day ______ AIDS, but she is determined to make her life beautiful.
that
develop

15. Xiaohua get AIDS by receiving infected blood transfusion
Skimming True or False
Xiaohua get AIDS by receiving
infected blood transfusion
through birth.
False
The young
The old suffers the most from most diseases.
False
As a result, 3.2 million children
were infected in 2002 in the world.
True
According to Xiaohua, the best way to care about AIDS patients is to give them much money.
False
give them a hug.

16. Group work
Since the AIDS patients are still faced with many difficulties. What can we do to help them live better?
change many people’s attitudes (not knowing about AIDS, misunderstanding , a fear of this disease and so on) towards the AIDS patients, be helpful / friendly /caring / concerned, understand their feelings, treat them as normal people, give them spiritual satisfaction, treat them fairly and in a friendly way, improve and offer medical condition and treatment, provide education, give financial aid, make laws to protect them…

17. Further Questions:
If you were XiaoHua , what would be your wishes now ?

18. 1. I wish I could remember more about my mum.
2. I wish that she were here with me and that we weren’t sick.
3. If I were to live long enough to have a job, I would choose to be a doctor, helping these AIDS patients.
3. I wish people would find out the facts and not act as if I were a bad or dangerous person.
4. If I were you, I would give an AIDS patient a hug.

19. Creation
With the approach of the World AIDS Day, our school is planning some theme activities on that day and now is collecting ideas from you students.The more, the better!

20. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
-----Voltaire
人生布满荆棘，我知道唯c一的办法就是迅速通过。我们对于自己的不幸想得越多，它们对我们的伤害就越大。----- 伏尔泰

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Homework:
Practise reading the text and underline the important phrases and sentences.
Pre-view Integrating skills on P54 and try to know more about some deadly diseases.
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