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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friends

years

it can’t

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Consolidation

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.