Living with disease（The Fourth Period）

  suggested answers：
  1.to the full
  2.a great many
  3.on the contrary
  4.freed…from
  5.taking a chance
  6.for the moment
  7.thought of
  t：well done.now please read the text for a few minutes，paying attention to the language.
step ⅳ discussion
  t：ok.now stop reading and let’s have a discussion.look at the questions on    the screen and then work in groups of four.
  1.compare the writer’s situation with that of xiao hua in the reading passage.how are their experiences similar or different?
  2.how do you think your life would change if you found out that you had an incurable disease?
  (after the students discuss for a while，teacher asks some students to answer the  questions.)
  t：ok.stop discussing.who’d like to talk about the first question? any    volunteer?
  s1：i’ll try it.both xiao hua and the writer got an incurable disease.neither of them give in to the disease.they both fought against it and try to make their    limited lifetime more meaningful.as to the difference between them.xiao hua got aids through birth.she not only has to suffer from the disease，but also have to deal with people’s fear of the disease，whi1e the writer got cancer because the production of cells in his body is disrupted.cancer does not spread from one person to another，so he is taken good care of by his family and friends.
t：quite well，what about the second question? any volunteer?
s2：let me have a try.if i found out that i had an incurable disease，i think my life would change as the writer’s life，because the existence of our life is    happiness to our family and friends.
   t：well done.now，please turn to page 56.look at part 4.you are asked to draw a timeline of your life and mark the best times(the highs)and the worst times(the lows).then write down sentences to tell what some events that made you very happy    were, what made you so sad，and what some points were in your life when you made a change or learnt an important lesson.you can referring to the following example.are you clear?
   ss：yes.
    (the students begin to do it.after that，teacher says the following to go on will the next part.)
step v writing
    t：ok.now it’s your turn to write an essay about an important event in your    life or another person’s life.first look at the instruction to writing on page     56.then write your own essay.