人类关于艾滋病的确切记载大都始于1981年在此之前

Reading Aids Today Step 1: Lead in

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Go on to look at some pictures and discuss what these pictures have in common.

(Ask students to present the information about Aids they have collected before class.)

Today we are going to read the transcript of a TV new special, which is also about Aids. We will learn more about this deadly disease and what can be done to fight the spread of it.

Step 2: Fast-reading for general idea.

Go through the reading passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in Part A. While reading you only need to focus on and identify the information needed to answer these questions.

1. What is this TV news special about?

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

1. Let's read the passage again more carefully and try to finish part C1 after your reading.

(1) What does Aids stand for?

(2) How many children have been affected by Aids so far?

(3) How does HIV affect the body?

(4) What are the three ways Aids is transmitted?

(5) What is being done in China to help control the Aids epidemic?

(6) What is the aim of UNAIDS?

(7) What does UNAIDS so for people who think they might have the virus?

(8) Why did Ajani not catch the virus from his mother?

分打上红点；2000年，这项工作停止了：中国地图上已经没有被艾滋病遗漏的省份。

目前，全球约有4000万艾滋病病毒携带者，其中

病毒感染者，320万艾滋病患者，死亡

2. Read the guidelines in Part C2 to know what to do to finish this part. Part C2 serves as a strengthening activity, which requires you to get more detailed information about the serious

First, let’s read the reading strategy on page 35.

Now listen to the recording of the passage, paragraph by paragraph, and, while listening, to pay attention to the last sentence of each paragraph and the first sentence of the next paragraph. Try to find out how a paragraph is linked with the next one.

Step 4. Practice

1. Part D

Find these words in the text and try to guess their meanings according to the context, and then

2.Part E

Neil is writing an e-mail to a friend about the TV programme. Help him complete the e-mail using

Step 5: Discussion

1. What’s the serious situation of Aids in China? Why are there so many Aids patients in China?

2. What has been done to deal with the situation by governments and international organization?

3. What should be done and can be done to treat the Aids patients or HIV carriers?

(Divide the students into groups of four and ask each group to choose one of topics for discussion. After that get some groups to report their findings and opinions to the whole class.)

1 Finish Parts A1 and A

2 on page 114 in the workbook.

2. Prepare the part Word power

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