Unit3 A Health Life Using Language

3. What is the difference between AIDS and HIV? HIV is a virus, while AIDS is the stage of the illness caused by HIV.
4. Is there a cure for AIDS and HIV at the moment?
1. What’s a virus? A virus is a very small living thing that cause sease.
2. How does HIV affect people’s health? HIV virus weakens a person’s immune system and eventually it damages the immune system so much that the body can on longer fight against disease.
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Step1: Before your reading:
1. Discuss what you know about HIV/AIDS with your classmates.
2. Now make a list of words you might read in the poster.
Step2: Read the poster, then answer the questions:
More than 7 million people in Asia and the Pacific are living with HIV/AIDS.
HIV infection has taken root in South Asia and poses a threat to development and poverty alleviation efforts in the region.
2. It is very likely that you will die if you become infected with HIV. T
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Step3: This passage can be divided into three sections. What’s the purpose of each section ?
Section1: Background information about what the diseases.
Section2: Ways to protect yourself. Section3: Some common myths dispelled.
Step4: Decide the following statements are true or false.
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8. IAt piseerasosyn twoitehllHwIhVecnaanpaeprpseoanrhas pHeIrVfe/ActIlyDhSe. altFhy. It is only in the last stages of AIDS that a person looks sick.
During the year, 5 million people became infected and an estimated 3 million people died.
About one-third of people living with HIV/AIDS are 15-24 years of age.
Using language
Warming up
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(后天免疫缺损综合症）
virus
Some facts:
By the end of 2003, an estimated 42 million around the world were living with HIV/AIDS.