Teaching Plan for Unit 7, 2nd Period

Aims:
1)To help the ss learn something more about AIDS.
2)To help the ss build their mind of how to treat AIDS patients.
3)To help the ss to understand the meaning of life.
4)To improve the ss’ reading ability.
Procedures:
I. Greeting.
II. Leading-in:
Show ss the poster for World AIDS Day and the symbol.
Show them the Red Ribbon and Badge.
Talk about the meaning of buying and wearing Red Ribbon to arouse ss’ interest.
III. Reading:
1.Pre-reading:
1) Help the ss understand the meaning of predicting.
2) Ask the ss to predict what will be talked about in the text.
3) Ask the ss to report the questions they wrote down.
2.Reading:
1) Skimming:(according to the text and the pictures)
“Who is the text mainly about?”
“What kind of person she is according to the 1st picture?”
“What is she doing in the 2nd picture?”
2) Listening and Scanning:(Individual work)
The ss may bear the following questions in mind and try to find the answers. They may also scan the text if necessary.
①What kind of disease is AIDS?
②Where is the disease spreading faster? Who suffers most? why?
③In what ways does AIDS spread?
④What did Xiaohua decide to do after she knew she got AIDS?
⑤Is the disease the only thing that AIDS patients have to suffer from?
⑥What is the best way to show that you care about AIDS patients?
3) Questions for getting a better understand of the text:
Ss may have some difficulty in understanding some part of the text. They may raise their questions.
4) Answer the questions ss offered at the very beginning of the class.
3.Post-reading:
1) Blank filling:
2) Discussion:
Topics:
①If I were an AIDS patient, what would I do?(Pair-work)
②How should we treat those AIDS patients?(Group-work)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
—Declaration of Independence
IV. Homework:
1)Read the text more and get a better understanding.
2)Underline those sentences and phrases you think important or difficult to understand, and discuss with your partner.
3)Try to retell the text according to the blank filling we’ve just done.


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