Living with disease（The Second Period）

4.does he / she feel discouraged?
(after that)
t：ok.now read the text at page 51 quickly and find the answers to the questions you listed just now.if there are any questions that the text did not answer，try to think why those questions were not answered.are you clear?
ss：yes.
t：you can begin now.
  (after a while, teacher asks some students to answer their predicted questions.)
suggested answers：
1.she is l5一year—old teenager.
2.she got aids through birth.
3.yes，they can.
4.no, she doesn't.
t：well done.now，please read it carefully again and add more questions to your list so that you have at least one question for each of the main points in the text.then work in pairs to ask your partner to answer your questions.you can begin now.
  (teacher may check their work a few minutes later.)
suggested questions and answers：
1.q：what kind of disease is aids?
     a：aids is a disease that breaks down the body’s immune system and 1eaves a person defenseless against infections and illness.
2.q：where is the disease spreading faster? and why?
     a：in africa and parts of asia.mainly because of a lack of proper health care, prevention and education.
3.q：which kind of people suffers the most?
     a：the young.
4.q：what did xiao hua decide to do after she knew she got aids?
     a：she decided to use the limited time she has left to do something to help    others.
5.q：is the disease the only thing that aids patients have to suffer from ?
     a：no.they also have to deal with people’s fear of the disease.
6.q：what is the best way to show that you care about aids patients ?
     a：giving an aids patient a hug.
t：well，now please scan the reading passage and find out the difference between aids and hiv and the ways of aids spreading.
  (teacher allows the students to read for a while，and then check the answers.)
t：are you ready?
ss：yes.
t：who’d like to tell the difference between aids and hiv?
s1：let me have a try.hiv is the virus that caused aids.aids is a kind of    incurable disease.people get aids after having been infected with hiv virus.
t：thank you.sit down.in what way does aids spread? any volunteer?
s2：aids spreads through b1ood and other body liquids.people transmit hiv by    having unprotected sex，by receiving infected b1ood transfusions or through    birth.