The Battle Against AIDS.ppt

Warming-up Activities Listening and discussing Enriching your vocabulary Comparing the following words Let-in Activity After introducing the background information about this unit, ask the students to talk about how to fight against AIDS? New Words and Phrases 1.?????? acquire vt. get by ones own work, skill, etc. 获得；学到 He acquired a knowledge of the language by careful study. 他通过认真学习掌握了这门语言。 The company has recently acquired a new office building in central Shanghai. 这家公司最近在上海市中心买了一栋新的办公楼。 Language Points Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed in the United States in the late 1970s. (Para.1) Meaning: AIDS was discovered by doctors in the last few years of the 1970s. diagnose: vt. decide what illness a person has; discover the nature (a disease) by making a careful examination Note: To talk about a doctors finding someone ill with a certain disease we often say diagnose with. Nearly half of those diagnosed with the virus are blacks and Latinos. (Para.2) 被诊断感染艾滋病病毒的人有一半是黑人和来自拉丁美洲的人。 Another 185,000 of the one million infected with the HIV virus are also expected to die. (Para.1) Meaning: Of the one million people who have the HIV virus, 185,000 are also likely to die. infect: vt. put disease into the body of The blood test shows that the man was infected with the HIV virus. 血检表明这个人染上了艾滋病病毒。 The disease infected her eyes, and she became blind. 这种病使她眼睛受感染，并致使她双目失明。 expect sb. to do sth.: think, believe, or hope that sb. would do sth. I didnt expect so many people to be in the room.我没想到房间里有这么多人。 I expected John to meet me at the airport. 我原以为约翰会到机场接我。 Women and youth in rural Southern communities now constitute the fastest growing segment of people with AIDS. (Para.2) Meaning: The number of women and young people who are infected with AIDS is growing fastest in the countryside in the South. constitute: vt. make up; form Seven days constitute a week.一周有7天。 Twelve scientists constituted a research group to study air pollution.12位科学家