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Step1: Before your reading:
1. Discuss what you know aboutHIV/AIDS with your classmates.
2. Now make a list of words youmight 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 thingthat cause disease.
HIV virus weakens a person’simmune system and eventually itdamages the immune system so muchthat the body can on longer fightagainst disease.
3.What is the difference between AIDSand HIV?
4. Is there a cure for AIDS and HIV atthe moment?
HIV is a virus, while AIDS is thestage of the illness caused by HIV
Step3: This passage can be divided into threesections. 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 followingstatements are true or false.
1.It is dangerous to get close to a personwith AIDS.
2.It is very likely that you will die if youbecome infected with HIV.
3.You can only get HIV from injectingdrugs.
4.Evidence show that men get AIDSmore easily than women.
False
True
False
False
5.It could be dangerous to have sex withoutusing a condom.
6.If blood or sexual fluids infected with HIVget into someone’s body, that person couldbecome infected too.
7.You shouldn’t hug a person with HIV/AIDS.
8.It is easy to tell a person has HIV/AIDS.
True
True
False
False