(爱滋病(1)

( Reading— l.10—p.51 )
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In Africa and parts of Asia, mainly because of a lack of proper health care, prevention and education. The young suffer the most.
Symbol: red ribbon
•AIDS
•loving and caring •Understanding and supporting
red ribbon
It is the international symbol of HIV and AIDS awareness.
What is the date of World AIDS Day
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Who is Xiaohua? What’s AIDS? How do people get AIDS? Thousands of children become infected with HIV every day. What kind of life does she live? AIDS patients have to deal with people’s fear of the disease.
not feel discouraged encourage people to learn how to protect themselves visit other AIDS suffers, support them and cheer them up create a network of patients and doctors persuade hospitals and companies to spend money on AIDS research and education .talk to people
3. Where is the disease spreading fast? Why? Who suffer the most?
4. As an AIDS patient, what does Xiaohua do?
use the limited time to help others
Xiaohua, a girl with HIV
7. What is the best way to show that you care about AIDS patients?
** Giving an AIDS patient a hug.
8.Can you tell us the difference between AIDS and HIV? HIV is the virus that caused AIDS. AIDS is a kind of incurable disease. People get AIDS after having been infected with HIV virus. A dreaming girl
2. Most people with AIDS can only survive a few months. F 3. Medicine can help the people with AIDS and it can cure them at last. F
4. Xiaohua’s mother died of AIDS when Xiaohua was a child. T
9. What can be done to improve the situation?
by the government: by specialists and doctors: by other people: by the patients themselves:
Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.
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Learn to live with HIV.
Decide which of these statements are true and which are false.
1.Xiaohua is a happy teenager and likes to talk to her teachers after class. F
Unit 7
HIV & AIDS
HIV= hu源自文库an 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)
Aids Quiz
Do you know something about Aids
1.If a person gets AIDS , he/she___ A.will certainly die in a few years. B is left defenseless against infections and illnesses. C will be unable to receive blood transfusions. D can be curd by a very expensive medicine 2.AIDS spreads fast in areas where____ A natural disasters often happen B People like touching and being touched C many old habits and customs are still kept alive. D there’s a lack of proper health care, prevention and education.
A dreaming girl
6. Is the disease the only thing that AIDS patients have to suffer from? ** No. They also have to deal with people’s fear of the disease, ignorance and misunderstanding.
3. Can people contact her? Yes, they can. 4. Does she feel discouraged? No, she doesn’t.
Read the text quickly ,find out the main idea of each paragraph
2. In what ways does AIDS spread? AIDS, which is caused by HIV, can be transmitted via unprotected sex, infected blood transfusion or through birth
Ways that AIDS spreads
5: What are Xiaohua’s wishes?
I wish I could remember more about my mum .and that she were here with me and that we weren’t sick.(para.3) If I were to live long enough to have job, I would choose to be a doctor.helping these AIDS patients.(para.5) I wish people would find out the facts and not act as if I were a bad or dangerous person.(para.6) If I were you I would give an AIDS patient a hug.(para.6)
Decide which of these statements are true and which are false. 5. Xiao Hua has hardly any hope to survive. T 6. Xiao Hua still decided to do something to help other AIDS suffers. T 7. Contacting with AIDS suffers is always dangerous. F 8.Xiao Hua thinks her life is still beautiful though she is suffering from AIDS. T
Preview the text and find the answers 1. What kind of person is Xiaohua?
She is a 12-year-old teenager. 2. How did she get AIDS? She got AIDS through birth.
（ F ） 1. Only bad people get AIDS. （ F ） 2. If I had HIV, I would know because I would feel sick. （ F ） 3. I can become infected with (感染)HIV by swimming in a pool, holding hands or kissing someone with HIV. （ F ） 4. People who have HIV look different from everyone else. （ T ） 5. It is safe to be friends with people who are living with HIV&AIDS. （ T ） 6. HIV / AIDS is difficult to cure.
AIDS stands for AIDS is a disease that breaks down the body’s immune system and leaves a person defenseless against infections and illness.
1: What kind of disease is AIDS?
Each year, more than 5 million people become infected with HIV.
Since the first case was discovered in 1981, nearly 27 million have died of AIDS.
In 2002, more than 40 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS.
More and more children are infected with HIV every day
Love ambassador—Pu Cunxin,Chen Long
Like any 12-year-old child, Xiaohua is a happy girl who smiles a lot and likes to talk to her friends after school. However, unlike other children, she has lost her mother and will lose her father, and herself was born dying with AIDS…
Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.