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Red Ribbon. ---an international symbol of HIV and AIDS awareness. World Aids Day. ---December 1st. HIV/AIDS: Are You at Risk?. 3. What do you expect the reading passage will talk about?. What do you know about HIV/AIDS? Do you think you are at risk?.
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Red Ribbon ---an international symbol of HIV and AIDS awareness World Aids Day ---December 1st
3. What do you expect the reading passage will talk about? What do you know about HIV/AIDS? Do you think you are at risk?
How many parts can this passage be divided into? What is the main idea of each part? Section1: Section2: Section3: Background information about the diseases. Ways to protect yourself. Some wrong ideas about AIDS.
2. What’s a virus? 3. What’s the immune system? 4. what’s AIDS? 5. How is HIV spread? Part1. 1. What’s HIV?
Step 5 Decide the following statements are true or false. HIV/AIDS is only spread through direct contact with infected blood or sexual fluids. 1. You can only get HIV from injecting drugs. 2. It is very likely that you will die if you become infected with HIV. 3. If you look healthy, you cannot have HIV. F T You can have HIV and look and behave as if you are perfectly healthy. It is only in the last stages of AIDS that a person looks sick. F
You can get HIV/AIDS from unprotected sex with an infected person. 4. It could be dangerous to have sex without using a condom. 5. Taking food from the same dishes as someone infected with HIV will give you HIV too. 6. If you have HIV, you will always get AIDS eventually. T HIV/AIDS is only spread through direct contact with infected blood or sexual fluids F T
Discussion • 1. Before you read this text, what judgements did you make about people with HIV/AIDS? • 2. Has your attitude changed after reading this text? If so, how? If not, why not? • 3. How would you behave in the future if you met a person with HIV/AIDS?