文档介绍：Unit Five
Teaching Objectives
1. Enlarge vocabulary.
2. Talk about AIDS and the measures against it.
3. Learn to read for major details.
4. Learn to write a paragraph with a problem-solution pattern.
Sections
Section A
The Battle Against AIDS
Section B
The Last Dive at the Olympics
Section C
International Joint Efforts Against AIDS
Section A
The Battle Against AIDS
Table of Contents
Background Information
Warming-up Activities
Text Analysis
Vocabulary Study
Vocabulary Test
Writing
Background Information (1)
AIDS
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is a disease which destroys the natural method the body uses to protect against other diseases. It is a disease caused by the HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus),
but AIDS is different from
HIV in that the former
usually causes death while
HIV may lead to AIDS.
The name of the disease that emerged more than 20 years ago is AIDS. As a damaging and infectious disease, it has killed thousands of people and made more than one million people infected. In addition, it threatens to wipe out an entire generation and leaves another without parents, which itself has contributed to a serious social problem. The war described in this passage refers to people’s fighting against the disease: AIDS.
Despite the government’s inactivity, many anizations have been established bat this fatal disease. They make efforts to educate people to guard against the virus by carrying out their educational programs creatively. They use easy-to-understand language or hand-drawn pictures to explain the risk of catching AIDS or emphasize that everyone is at risk and has a right to protect himself.
Background Information (2)
How should we treat AIDS?
Each of us should learn to be open-minded and try not to be distracted from the concentration on the solution to the problem itself by the cultural, racial or social barriers. Moreover, each of us should learn to be responsible for fighting against this disease and protect ourselv