Living with a parent or parents who have AIDS is painful and difficult. Because the parents cannot
work, the children may not have enough food and must help take care of the family.)
Q3: What do they suffer from?
(Not only the disease itself and inevitable death, but also people’s not knowing, misunderstanding and fear of the disease.)
Q4: What can be done to improve the situation?
(By the government:
By specialist and doctors:
By other people:
By the patients themselves: )
Q5: As an AIDS patient, what does Xiaohua do?
(not discouraged/ encourage/ visit, support, cheer up/create a network, persuade/talk to people)
Q6: What are her wishes?
(I wish I could remember
If I were to live long …
I wish people could…
If I were you …
Q7: How do you find her?
Q8: Next time if you meet an AIDS patient, will you regard him or her as a bad and dangerous
person? What would you do?
2) Creation
AIDS Day is approaching, our school is planning some theme activities and it is collecting ideas
from the students.
Is it a good idea to invite Xiaohua to give us a lecture? If you were Xiaohua, what would you say
to us? Please prepare a speech.
IV. Homework
1. Preview Integrating Skills—DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER: THE DAY MY LIFE ENDED … AND BEGAN! (p. 54)
2. Learn the whole text by heart.
The Forth Period
Goals:
1. To learn some information of cancer and the attitude towards it.
2. To write a personal narrative.
Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-reading
Life is not always smooth, but with submerged rocks here and there, now and then. When faced
with unexpected diseases or disasters or even death, what attitude to choose is a question.
Q: For example, if you found out that you had an incurable
