Unit5DealingwithAIDS

Unit 5 Dealing with AIDS 1.Teaching Objectives

1)To help students to get to know the basic knowledge about AIDs;

2)To help students to get to know how to keep from HIV and AIDs;

3)To help students to learn to analyze the text; 4)To help students to learn the language in this text; 5)To help students to develop oral English ability and communicative competence.

2.Teaching Procedures 1)Lead-in activities 2)Cultural Backgrounds 3)Text analysis 4)Structural analysis 5)Language study 6)Exercises I. Lead-in activities Pre-reading questions

What kind of disease do you know AIDS is?

How much do you know about 2003’s SARS attack? II. Cultural background

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a human viral disease, ravages the immune system, undermining the body’s ability to defend itself from infection and disease. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections. Such infections are harmless in healthy people, but in those whose immune systems

have been greatly weakened, they can prove fatal. Although there is no cure for AIDS, new drugs are available that can prolong the life spans and improve the quality of life of infected people. How is HIV transmitted?

HIV can be transmitted through the blood, sexual fluids, or breast milk of an HIV-infected person. People can get HIV if one of these fluids enters the body and into the bloodstream. The disease can be passed during unprotected sex with a HIV-infected person. An HIV-infected mother can transmit HIV to her infant during pregnancy, delivery or while breastfeeding. People can also become infected with HIV when using injection drugs through sharing needles and other equipment.

Why HIV/AIDS education?

the first of which is to prevent new infections from taking place.

A second reason that AIDS education is needed is to improve quality of life for HIV positive people

The third reason people need AIDS education is to reduce stigma and discrimination

III. Text Analysis

The text relates a true story —unforgettable personal 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.

IV. Structural analysis Paragraph 1

This part indicates the beneficial result from dealing with AIDS and makes clear the exact date when the word AIDS came into the writer’s life.

Paragraphs 2–4

This part tells about how the writer knew and felt about his best friend’s disease and how others responded to the disease.

Paragraphs 5–7

This part tells us that the writer kept an active and positive attitude for the sake of his friend David and showed great concern to him.

Paragraph 8

This part points out the specific date that marked the end of David’s life, describes the writer’s emotions towards David’s death, and informs us how the writer keeps his friend’s memory alive.

V. Language study Dealing with AIDS Paragraph 1 AIDS

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 body’s natural defenses against infection. AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections.

strengthen v.

to become stronger or make something stronger

e.g. Steve’s opposition only strengthened her resolve to go ahead.

The university hopes to strengthen its ties with the local community.

bond n.

something that unites two or more people or groups, such as love, or a shared interest or idea

e.g. He felt a peculiar bond with these local people.

Over the years they had developed deep bonds of friendship. 2) an official document promising that a government or company will pay back money that it has borrowed, often with interest

carefree adj.

having no worries or problems

He thought back to the carefree days of his childhood. Paragraph 1 I blew it off. Paraphrase:

I didn’t take it seriously. 我没管那么多。 homosexual disease

a kind of disease that those who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex will infect. One of the greatest challenges to face the homosexual community was the outbreak of AIDS in the early 1980s. In the United States, the disease first became prevalent among homosexuals and spread with devastating effects.

sick joke

cruel, offensive joke 恶意的笑话 hang out

to spend a lot of time in a particular place or with particular people

e.g. Where do the youngsters hang out? I don’t really know who she hangs out with. hang up

to finish a telephone conversation I said goodbye and hung up.

Don’t hang up on me – I need to talk to you.

Paragraph 3 Make sense

1) to have a clear meaning and be easy to understand e.g Read this and tell me if it makes sense.

2) if something makes sense, there seems to be a good reason or explanation for it

e.g Why did she do a thing like that? It doesn’t seem to make sense.

handle v.

1) to deal with a situation or problem by behaving in a particular way and making particular decisions

e.g. The headmaster handled the situation very well. 2) to deal with a person or behave towards them in a particular way, especially in order to keep them happy

e.g. Some customers are quite difficult to handle. Paragraph 4 plague n. & v.

1) n. a disease that causes death and spreads quickly to a large

number of people

e.g. The plague caused 100,000 deaths in London alone in the 1600s.

2) v. to cause pain, suffering, or trouble to someone, especially

for a long time

Financial problems continued to plague the company. turn one’s back on

1) to refuse to help, support, or be involved with someone or something

2) to turn so that your back is pointing towards someone or

something, and you are not looking at them

stick it out

to continue doing something that is difficult, painful, or boring

e.g. It wasn’t a happy period of his life, bu t he stuck it out. Eleven girls joined the junior high football team, but only four stuck it out until the end of the season.

Paragraph 5 full blown AIDS

AIDS in its most complete, extreme, developed, or strongest form

艾滋病晚期 positive adj.

showing confidence and hope

e.g. We’ve got to be more positive about our life. ―Think positive!‖ she advised herself. stress n.

1) continuous feelings of worry about your work or personal life, that prevent you from relaxing

e.g. Your headaches are due to stress. 2) the physical force or pressure on an object

e.g. Shoes with high heels put a great deal of stress on knees and ankles.

Paragraph 6 lesion n.

damage to someone’s skin or part of their body such as their stomach or brain, caused by injury or illness e.g.It took several months for his lesions to heal.

What is the hidden lesion that is causing them? bedridden adj.

unable to leave your bed, especially because you are old or ill

e.g. He has been bedridden for two years. Paragraph 7

the hospital staff had a bubble around him

The hospital staff put him under a large clear plastic tent. 医护人员把他放到一个透明塑料圆罩里。 maintain v.

1) to make something continue in the same way or at the same standard as before

e.g. Careers Officers maintain contact with young people when they have left school.

2) to make a level or rate of activity, movement, etc. stay the same

e.g. Do maintain a constant temperature inside the greenhouse.

germ n.

a very small living thing that can make you ill

The disease can be caused by several different germs. Cover your mouth when you cough so you won’t spread germs.

Paragraph 8 mark v.

1) to be a sign of

e.g. The album marks a change in Young’s musical style. 2) to write or draw on something, so that someone will notice what you have written

e.g. I’ve marked the pages you need to look at. hold in

to restrain emotions

e.g. He’s incapable of holding himself in when he gets extremely excited.

The man beat the table hard because he could not hold in his anger.

VI. Exercises

Please refer to the reference book.