The fifth periodUsing languageLook some pictures belowStep1: Before your reading: 1. Discuss what you know about HIV/AIDS with your classmates. 2. Now make a list of words you might read in the poster.Step2: Read the poster,then answer the questions:1.What’s a virus?2.How does HIV affect people’s health?A virus is a very small living thing that cause diease. HIV virus weakens a person’s immune system and eventually it damages the immune system so much that the body can on longer fight against disease. 3.What is the difference between AIDS and HIV? 4. Is there a cure for AIDS and HIV at the moment?HIV is a virus,while AIDS is the stage of the illness caused by HIVStep3: This passage can be divided into three sections.what’s the purpose of each section ?Section1:Section2:Section3:Background information about what the diseases.Ways to protect yourself.Some common myths dispelled.Step4: Decide the following statements are ture or false.1.It is dangerous to get close to a person with AIDS.2.It is very likely that you will die if you become infected with HIV.3.You can only get HIV from injecting drugs.4.Evidence show that men get AIDS more easily than women.False Ture False False5.It could be dangerous to have sex without using a condom.6.If blood or sexual fluids infected with HIV get into someone’s body, that person could become infected too.7.You shouldn’t hug a person with HIV/AIDS.8.It is easy to tell a person has HIV/AIDS.TureTureFalseFalse
