Unit 7 Living with diseaseUnit 7 Living with disease
Period 2 Reading
ZhangJingmei
BornDying
A six-year-old child living with AidsA six-year-old child living with Aids
There are lots of children in the world There are lots of children in the world who are facing dead when they are bornwho are facing dead when they are born……
BornDying
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Xiaohua is a person living with AIDS.What is AIDS
The channels of transmitting HIV
Many children become infected with AIDS.
What Xiaohua does as a young AIDS patient
Xiaohua helps AIDS patients and tries to change people’s attitude towards them.Xiaohua’s attitude towards life
Listen to the tape about part one and part two. Try to finish the next two tables.
age
Coming place
character
Suffer from
father
mother
Information about Xiaohua Information about AIDS
Definition
Years to live
treatment
Way of getting aids
Transmitting ways
Total number of infected children
The most serious areas
Why?
age
Coming place
character
Suffering from
father
mother
1122
A province in South ChinaA province in South China
Smiles a lot and Smiles a lot and
likes to talk to otherslikes to talk to others
AIDSAIDS
AIDS patient, take care of herAIDS patient, take care of her
AIDS patient, died when AIDS patient, died when Xiaohua was threeXiaohua was three
Definition
Years to live
treatment
Way of getting aids
Transmitting ways
Total number of infected children in 2002
The most
serious areas
Why?
A disease that …and…
only a few years
Expensive and incurable
Having been infected with HIV
Having unprotected sex, receiving infected bloodtransfusions or through birth
3.2 million
Africa and AsiaA lack of proper health care, prevention and education
1.If you were Xiaohua, What would you do?
If I were Xiaohua, I would…
2. If Xiaohua were in our classroom, what will you do to help her?
Discussion
1.What does Xiaohua do?
2. What is the biggest problem to the AIDS patients? Why? Do you think people’s understanding is important?
3.What is the best way can people do to help the AIDS patients?
1.What does Xiaohua do?
1. has decides to …
2. spends her time (in) …
3. goes to …
use the limited time to do something to help others
telling ... and encouraging ....
visits patients in order to support them and
cheer them up
4. tries to … change people’s attitude
2. What is the biggest problem to the AIDS patients? Why? Do you think people’s understanding is important?
The biggest problem to the AIDS patients is to deal with people’s fear of AIDS. Because people don’t know very much about the disease.
3.What is the best way can people do to help the AIDS patients?
The best way to show your care is to give them a hug.
Can you tell the story of Xiaohua in your own words?
Xiaohua is a happy teenager, but one of millions of children in the world living and ________ with AIDS. Xiaohua was _________ with HIV virus through ________.
Xiaohua knows she won’t have a ________ to live as long as her classmates. She tries her best to tell people how to __________ themselves and visits AIDS ___________. She is trying her best to _________ them and cheer them up. She hopes that people can know more about the disease. She hopes she won’t be treated as a bad or dangerous person.
She won’t let the disease destroy her __________. Instead, she believes her life can be ______________.
dyinginfected
birth
chance
protectpatients support
happiness
beautiful
Think about the question:
How will you treat the AIDS patients in the future?
Are you afraid of AIDS? Will you make friends with those who have AIDS?
Let’s do it together!
Wear the Red Ribbon on 1st December. It is the international symbol of HIV and AIDS awareness.
World AIDS Day:
1st December
Homework: write down your opinions towards aids and what will you do in the future?