• 酒吧里的猴子 The Monkey• A man walks into a bar and orders a beer. He takes his first sip and sets it down. While he is looking around the bar, a monkey swings down and steals the pint of beer from him before he is able to stop the monkey.• The man asks the barman who owns the monkey. The barman replies the piano player. The man walks over to the piano player and says "Do you know your monkey stole my beer." The pianist replies "No, but if you hum it, I'll play it."Using languageHIV is the virus that causes AIDS.AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. ( 后天免疫缺损综合症）Warming upvirusStep1: 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? A virus is a very small living thing that cause disease.2. How does HIV affect people’s health? 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? HIV is a virus, while AIDS is the stage of the illness caused by HIV.4. Is there a cure for AIDS and HIV at the moment?Step3: This passage can be divided into three sections. What’s the purpose of each section ?Section1:Section2:Section3:Background information about what causes the diseases. Ways to protect yourself. Some common myths dispelled.Step4: Decide the following statements are true 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.FTF HIV/AIDS is only spread through direct contact with infected blood or sexual fluids.You can also get HIV/AIDS from unprotected sex with an infected person.4. Evidence shows that men get AIDS more easily than women.5. 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.TTFWomen are slightly more likely to become infected.7. You shouldn’t hug a person with HIV/AIDS.8. It is easy to tell when a person has HIV/AIDS.FFYou cannot get AIDS from hugging someone. An infected person needs all the support you can give them.A person with HIV can appear perfectly healthy. It is only in the last stages of AIDS that a person looks sick.
