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• 2) How is the concluding part related to the beginning?
• The concluding (ending) part is related to the beginning In the following aspects:
• (1) The first sentence points out the good effect of dealing with AIDS, and the last two sentences in the conclusion illustrate the point.
experiences of the writer’s. It tells us how David, the writer’s best friend, suffered from AIDS, what attitude the writer took towards David, and how much concern he showed to David, i.e. how he helped David deal with AIDS.
• Part 3 (Para.5--7)
• This part tells us the writer maintained an active and positive attitude towards his friend. Specifically, these paragraphs tells us how the writer controlled his emotions in front of his friend, and that he went to doctor after doctor with him, brought him stuff from the ocean, his favorite place, and spent every hour he could accompanying his friend in the hospital where his friend was being treated.
experiences of the writer’s, and therefore, they are more
believable. Thirdly, the first person narration seems to make what is related and described more vivid, more
• (2) In the beginning, the specific date is given when the word AIDS came into the writer’s life, and in the conclusion the actual date is made clear that marked the end of David’s life.
content.
• 2) So I called him and he hung up on me. • ---So I phoned him, but he refused to talk
to me on the phone by replacing the receiver.
• 3) So once again I blew it off. • ---So I once again gave up my effort to talk
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Infection with HIV does not necessarily mean that
a person has AIDS. Some people who has HIV
infection may not develop any of the clinical illnesses
An Integrated English Course Unit Five
Dealing with AIDS
I. Pre-reading Questions:
• 1. What kind of disease do you know AIDS is?
• 2. How much do you know about 2003’s SARS attack?
• Part 2 (Para.2--4)
• This part provides an account of how the writer came to know the fact that his friend was suffering from AIDS, how he felt towards it,what attitude he adopted towards it, and how others responded to it.
threatening stage of HIV infection.
II. While-reading
• Text explanation
• 1) Main Idea of the Text:
• The text relates a true story -unforgettable personal
that define the full-blown disease of AIDS for ten years
or more. Physicians prefer to use the term AIDS for
cases where a person has reached the final, life-
easier or more convenient for the writer to insert his feelings and descried his psychological activities.
Secondly, as the story is told in the first narration, the activities and events are treated as the personal
• 3) What are the advantages of the first person
narration used in the text?
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The first person narration shows a number of
advantages. Firstly, the first person narration makes it
2) Structural Analysis of the Text
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Part 1 (Para.1 )
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Part 2 (Para.2--4)
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Part 3 (Para.5--7)
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Part 4 (Para.8)
• Part 1 (Para.1 )
• The first sentences of the first paragraph points out the instructive message of the story. This paragraph also makes clear the specific date when AIDS became known to the author.
2. Background Knowledge:
• 2. What is HIV posite indicates that a person is carrying the
Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) that causes
• (3) The beginning draws the reader’s attention to the fact that the writer had been the most carefree person in the world before his friend caught AIDS, while the concluding part says that having done so much, he is no longer that carefree teenage, being busy in educating people about AIDS
• Part 4 (Para.8)
• The last paragraph mentions the specific date that marked the end of David’s life, describe the writer’s feelings towards David’s death, and indicates how the writer keeps his friend’s memory alive.
to him.
• 4) I confronted him as to why we were not friends any more.
3) Writing Techniques
• Relevant Questions: • 1) How is this narrative story organized? • 2) How is the concluding part related to
the beginning? • 3) What are the advantages of the first
2. Background Knowledge:
• 1. What is AIDS?
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AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (获得性免疫缺损综合症)。
• AIDS is a very serious disease caused by the Human Immune Deficiency Virus (人体免疫缺损病毒), which breaks down the natural defences against infection. AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable(脆弱的) to opportunistic(偶然的) infections. Such infections are harmless in healthy people, but in those whose immune system has been greatly weakened, they can proved fatal. Although there is no cure for AIDS, new drugs are available that can prolong the life spans(平均寿命) and improved the quality of the life of infected people.
person narration used in the text?
• 1) How is this narrative story organized?
• The narrative story is organized by arranging in the chronological order the activities and events related in the true story.
specific, and more thought-provoking because the writer tells you directly his unforgettable personal experiences.
3. Paraphrasing
• 1) I was just living life up. • --- I was enjoying life to my heart’s