Teaching plan of Unit 7
Living With Disease

Teaching aims and demands
1.Goals: Talk about deadly diseases and attitude towards AIDS, cancer, etc..
Practise talking about imaginary situations
Practice supporting and challenging an opinion
Learn to use Subjunctive Mood： if I were you, I would …., I wish I could….
Write a personal narrative
2.Vocabulary and useful expressions:
Virus, via, mosquito, prevention, persuade, defenseless, illness, treatment, liquid, unprotected, sex, lack, proper, discourage, cheer, network, specialist, meaningful, boyfriend, identify, billionaire, stranger, weep, cell, chemical, radiation, fighter, contrary.
Cheer….up, a great many, on the contrary
3.Function:
Supporting an opinion:
I think that …. Because ….
First,….
One reason is that…..
For example, …..
If we/they were to …. We/ they could …..
Challenging an opinion
Perhaps, but what if/ about….
Have you thought about….
What makes you think that ….?
Could you please explain ….?
If I were you, I would …..
4.Grammar:
Subjunctive Mood (虚拟语气)
If everyone in the country knew first aid, many lives might be saved.
I wish that she were here with me and that we weren’t sick.
I wish I could remember more about my mum.
We wish we could have arrived there two hours earlier.

Teaching procedure:
Period 1.
Step 1.Warming up
1.Brainstorming:
Activity: a quiz to test the knowledge of first aid.

2.Following the steps of the warming-up on page 57.
Step 2. Pre-reading
1.Show some pictures of people suffered from AIDS.
2.group work: discuss the difference between HIV and AIDS.
Step 3. While-reading
1.Scanning: Ss read quickly and discuss
How much do you know about AIDS?
2. How HIV is transmitted?
3.How HIV is not transmitted?
Step 4. After-reading
Discussion: how to treat people who is suffering from AIDS?.
Step 5. Assignment
Surf the internet and get more information about AIDS..


Period 2.

Step 1. Warming up
Ask some Ss to retell the passage that they have learnt in last period.
Step 2. Learning about the language
Teacher explain some language points in the text on page 59--60.
1.People who see Xiaohua would never guess that she is one of millions of children in the world living and dying with AIDS.
Analyze the sentencestructure to the students.
2. AIDS is a disease that breaks down the body’s immune system and leaves a person defenseless against infections and illnesses.
Break down
They broke down a door.
The car broke down on the way.
He has broken down from overwork.
The wind and waves can break the waste down.
3.For some, medicine can help keep them alive, but the treatment is expensive and doesn’t cure them.
Keep + object+object supplementary
I’m sorry to have kept you waiting for such a long time.
He wants you to keep him informed of how things are going with you.
Keep the door open, please.
You’d better keep the child away from the fire.
Once a cold kept him in bed for 3 days.
4.“I wish I could remember more about my mum,” Xiaohua says, “I wish she were here with me and that we weren’t sick.”
Wish 后接宾语从句时，从句多用虚拟语气。
I wish you would not smoke any more.
I wish very much you could manage to come over.
I wish I could help him.
5.The disease is spreading faster in Africa and parts of Asia, mainly because of a lack of proper health care, prevention and education.
6.She also goes to visit other AIDS patients in hospitals across the country to support them and cheer them up.
Cheer up
I cheered up at the news.
Cheer up.

Step 3. Practice

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