2A Unit 7 Reading Born dying

Liu Yan, Fengtai No.2 Middle School

Teaching aims:

1. Help the students have a good understanding of the text, and

enable them to talk about AIDS.

2. Help the students get to know how to protect themselves from being infected and the attitude they should take towards people with AIDS.

Teaching aids: worksheet, multi-media

Teaching procedure:

Step I: Lead in:

1.Ss look at the picture on Page 51 and get to know the girl is suffering from AIDS.

AIDS---disease---incurable---dying

2. Ss tell what they want to know about AIDS.

What is AIDS?

Hoe does AIDS spread?

How do people get infected with it?

How do people prevent AIDS?

How does a person live with AIDS?

Can we contact with people with AIDS?

What kind of attitude should we take towards AIDS sufferers?

Step II: Fast-reading:

Ss do skimming to find out the answer to the following questions:

What is AIDS?

How does AIDS spread?

Step III: While-reading

1. Ss read the text and do “True or False ” exercises to get to know the situation in the world:

1) Only in the year of 2002, there were 800,000 children who are younger than 15 years old infected with AIDS.

2) A lack of proper health care, prevention and education is the main cause of the fast spreading of AIDS in America.

3) There are not available drugs to cure AIDS patients at all.

2. Ss do multiple choices to see the attitude people take towards AIDS patients:

1) The sentence “The disease is not the only thing that AIDS patients have to suffer from” means _____.

A. they also suffer from other diseases such as cancer

B. the only thing they suffer from is AIDS

C. they are afraid that they are dying

D. people’s fear of the disease is another thing they suffer from

2) When people meet Xiaohua, their actions show that _____.

A. they know she is dying

B. they don’t know what deeds she has done

C. they don’t know how she got infected

D. they know the disease is incurable

3) People’s not knowing much about AIDS is the most dangerous thing, because _____.

they will shake hands with AIDS sufferers

B. they will not know how to protect themselves

C. they support AIDS research and education a lot

D. they don’t do anything to hurt AIDS patients

3. Ss read the text individually then answer the questions:

1) Do you think Xiaohua is different from other AIDS patients?

2) If yes, what are the differences?

( She has her wishes, decisions, and deeds.)

4. Complete the chart with some key words from the text:

About Xiaohua

Wishes

Decisions

Deeds

Attitude

Summary: From her decisions we know that Xiaohua’s attitude to herself is optimistic, and her deeds shows that her attitude to other AIDS patients is friendly and warm.

Step IV: Post-reading:

(Ss choose one of the following tasks. After practicing, some present theirs in class.)

Task 1. Ss have a discussion about the following:

1.What do you think we should do about the disease--- AIDS?

2. What will you do on December 1st?

Task 2. Do pair work to make a dialogue:

Suppose you meet Pu Cunxin or Xiaohua on December 1st. You want very much to know something more about AIDS. Then you go over to have a talk with one of them. You can ask any questions you care about.

Step V. Summary:

Today, after reading the text we learn something about AIDS, and get to know what we should do about it. Then our actions would be more reasonable.

Homework: On December 1st, you will make a speech about how to

protect people from being infected with AIDS in the street to the passers-by. Please write down what you are going to say. (60-80words)

Blackboard design

Unit 7 Reading Born dying

AIDS---disease----incurable---dying

Xiaohua’s attitude to herself --- optimistic

Xiaohua’s attitude to other patients --- friendly, warm

People’s attitude to AIDS patients ---