How much do you know about Aids ? Are you familiar with this red ribbon? What’s it related to? What does it mean? Red ribbon is related to AIDS. It

How much do you know about Aids ?• Are you familiar with this red ribbon?

What’s it related to?

• What does it mean? Red ribbon is related to AIDS. It means that we should give AIDS

patients love and care , understanding and support .

How much do you know about Aids ?

HIHIVV

AIDS

How does HIV destroy cells?

How much do you know about Aids ?• What do the letters AIDS stand for?• AIDS= Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

gained

protection

lack

a group of diseases

that make you sick

How much do you know about Aids ? How serious is the situation about Aids? It is reported by the UN that in the world

40,000,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS , of whom 3,100,000 have died this year.

How much do you know about Aids ? The first recorded cases of aids

1981-1990 This decade saw the first report of AIDS

AIDS QUIZ

1. Only bad people get AIDS.

2. I can become infected with HIV by swimming in a pool, holding hands or kissing someone with HIV.

3. In 2002, there were 42 million people living with HIV/ AIDS in the world.

4. People who have not injected drugs do not need to get tested for HIV.


AIDS QUIZ5.If I had HIV, I would know because I

would feel sick.

6.HIV/AIDS is difficult to cure.

7.People who have HIV look different from everyone else.

8.It is safe to be friends with people who are living with HIV/AIDS.


GUESS and SAY

Guess and say

GAME

Can Aids be transmitted via the following routes?

Eating food with Aids Patients

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say

GAME


Using the toilet Using the toilet seatseat

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say

GAME


kissing

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say

GAME


Shaking Hands

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say

GAME


Hugging

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say


Swimming with the AIDS patients

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say


giving blood

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say


unprotected sexunprotected sex

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say


GUESS and SAY

Guess and say


contaminated needlescontaminated needles

GUESS and SAY

Guess and say


mother-to-child mother-to-child transmissiontransmission

How do people become infected with HIV/AIDS?1. Unprotected sex.

2. Injection drug use.

( share injection needles, cottons, etc. )

3. From an infected mother to her infant.

( before and during birth,

or through breast-feeding)

5. Blood transfusions. (rarely)

6. The health care setting. (rarely)


ReadinReadingg

A Read the following TV news special transcript

quickly and answer these questions• 1.What is this TV news special about?

• It gives some detailed information about Aids and how to fight the spread of Aids.

• 2.How many people around the world are infected with HIV every day?

• About 14,000 people• 3. What places have been affected by Aids?• Almost every country in the world has been

affected by Aids.

Careful reading

• How well did you understand the details in the TV news special transcript? Read it again and answer the following questions.

• 1.What does Aids stand for ?

• Aids stands for acquired immune deficiency symdrome

• 2. how many children have been affected by Aids so far ?

• About 18 million children have been affected by Aids , among whom 4 million have been killed by Aids and more than 14 million have lost their parents to Aids and become orphans.

• 3.How does HIV affect the body?• HIV is a virus that enters a person’s blood

and attacks the body’s immune system, so the immune system is weakened, and then it gradually loses the ability to fight illnesses. Eventually the body’s immune system becomes so weak that the person becomes sick very easily.

• 4. What are the three ways Aids is transmitted?

• The three ways are unprotected sex, blood-to-blood transmission.

• 5.What is being done in China to help control the Aids epidemic?

• China is working hard to control the epidemic, and has opened HIV/Aids labs to test and monitor the disease across the country. In 2003, the government started providing free Aids drugs for Aids patients in need.

• 6. What is the aim of UNAIDS?

• The aim of UNAIDS is to help prevent the spread of aids.

• 7.What does UNAIDS do for people who think they might have the virus?

• It provides infected people with help from doctors and testing for people who think they might have HIV or Aids.

• 8. Why did Ajani not catch the virus from his mother?

• Because his mother has access to prescription Aids medications during pregnancy.

C2: write the correct letters in brackets.• 1.the number of children who

have lost their parents to Aids.• 2.the number of HIV carriers in

China• 3.the number of people infected

with Aids since the 1980’s• 4.the number of people who will

die of Aids between 2000 and 2020

• 5.the number of Aids patients in China

• 6.the number of people being infected with Aids per day

• 7.the number of children killed by Aids

• b 75,000• a >60 million

• c >4 million

• d about 14,000

• e 650,000

• f >68 million

• g >14 million

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g

e

a

f

b

d

c

D: Match them with correct meaning

• 1.far-off

• 2.scream

• 3.bathes

• 4.sob

• 5.cure

• 6.infected

• 7.subscribe to

• 8.estimates

• a. cry, especially in a noisy way• b. remote, a long distance away• c. spread illness or disease to

people• d. judgments that are not based

on exact numbers or figures• e. a loud cry• f. a medical treatment that can

get rid of illness• g. agree with , support• h. washes someone’s body with

water

Answer to E

• 1.epidemic

• 2.immune system

• 3.cure

• 4.serious

• 5.Africa

• 6.Argentina

• 7.monitor

• 8.prescription

• 9.efforts

• 10.prevetion

•What can be done to improve the situation?

What can be done to improve the

situation?• by the by the government:government:

• by specialists by specialists and doctors:and doctors:

• by other people:by other people:• by the patients by the patients themselves:themselves:

Language

points

1.In an African village, eleven-year-old Ajani hears

a far-off scream as he washes his little sister in a

bath that leaks water.

在非洲的一个村庄， 11 岁的阿加尼在给在漏水的浴盆中的妹妹洗澡时听到了远方的一声尖叫。

2. While he bathes her, he waits for his mother to

return; he does not sob because no one has told

him yet what happened.

当他给妹妹洗澡时，他等待着妈妈回来；他没有哭泣，因为还没有人告诉他发生了什么事。

3. sob n. 哽咽声 , 抽噎 ( 声 ), 啜泣 ( 声 ), ( 风等的 ) 呼啸声

vi. 抽噎 , 啜泣 , 哽咽 ( 风等 ) 发出呜咽声 (sobbed; sobbing) The child sobbed loudly.

联想：cry: 放声大哭sob: 呜咽，抽泣，泣不成声weep: 小声或无声的哭，侧重流泪多，多用书面语

4. Eventually, the immune system becomes so weak

that the infected person can become sick very

easily, and even common illness like the flu can

be quite serious.

最终，免疫系统变得相当脆弱，被感染的人就很容易生病，即使是最平常的病，比如流感，也会变得非常严重。

5. Although many people are familiar with Aids

and how it is transmitted, more than a few

people subscribe to the view that HIV and Aids

are an African problem because the infection

rates there are very high.

虽然很多人都熟悉艾滋病及其传播方式，还是有不少人赞成这样的观点：艾滋病病毒和爱滋病是非洲的问题，因为那里个感染率非常高。

6. be familiar with: 熟悉……的；通晓……的Are you familiar with this type of car?你熟悉这种型号的汽车吗？Are you familiar with the rules of baseball?你熟悉棒球规则吗 ?He is familiar with Chinese ancient history.他通晓中国古代史。

Cf: be familiar to 为某人所熟悉The street was familiar to me.= I was familiar with the street.

7. monitor n. 班长 , 监听器 , 监视器 , 监控器 vt. 监听 , 监视 , 监控radar( 雷达 ) stations monitoring enemy planes监视敌机的雷达站monitor an examination监考

8. The work that UNAIDS is doing to control the

worldwide epidemic includes providing infected

people with help from doctors and testing for

people who think they might have HIV of Aids.

联合国爱滋病规划署正在做的控制这一全球性传染病的工作包括为被感染患者提供医生的援助和为自认为可能有爱滋病病毒或爱滋病的人提供体检。

9. The organization also offers programmes that

teach Aids prevention to young people and sets up

treatment centres, where HIV-positive mothers

can receive drugs to prevent mother-to-child

transmission.

这一组织还提供许多项目，这些项目教导年轻人预防爱滋病，建立治疗中心，在这些中心爱滋病病毒呈阳性的母亲可以得到药物以防止母婴传播。

10. estimate vt. 估计 , 预算 , 估价（常与 at 连用） ;

评价 , 判断（常与 that 连用）I estimate her age at 35. 我估计她有 35 岁。estimate the cost of ... 估计 ... 的成本estimate one’s ability 评价某人的能力

n. 估计 , 预算 ; 评价at a rough estimate 据粗略估计make an estimate of 给 ... 作一估计 ; 评价

联想： vt. evaluate 评价 , 估计 vt. assess 估计 , 估算

11. access n. 通道 , 通路 ; 入门 , 进入 ; ( 能 ) 使用 /接近 /接触 (… 的权利或机会 ), 达到，得到There is no access to the street through that door.穿过那个门没有通向大街的路。You can’t get access to the building without permission. 没有允许你不能进入大楼。a man of easy access 易于接近的人 , 平易近人的人Students in out school have an easy access to the library (the Internet).我校的学生能很方便的利用 /接触图书馆 ( 因特网 )have (gain, get, obtain) access to…得进入… , 能使 (利 ) 用…，得接近（触）…　☆提示： access前通常不加冠词。

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