Unit 9 Health Care

Teaching aims:

1.Goals:

Learn about health care

Practise expressing opinions and making decisions

Review the Subjunctive Mood (2)

Write a letter

2.Special focus:

Improve reading skills and Enlarge vocabulary.

a.Direct Ss to read the 3 passages on the text book;

b.Guide Ss to learn to use the following words and expressions:

Medical insurance, poverty, unemployment, AIDS, housing, income, economic development, essential, desperate, fundamental, statistics, pressure, constant, allowance, re-employment, sacrifice, aggressive, intelligence, sense of responsibility, sympathy, willingness, observation, resident, laid-off, vow, mould, etc.

Reading A Helping Hand (p75)

Step 1 Lead in

1.Can you think of the situations where people need help?

Serious illness, jobless, accidents, wars, disasters…

2.While one is in such situations, which organization can help besidesthe people around him or her?

The WHO together with the government.

Step 2 Listen and answer:

1.Was wanglin cured or not?

2. How much was spent on the poor people by 2003?

3.What is another big challenge for the government?

Step 3 Scanning

Read the passage and try to come up with the general idea of each paragraph. Then ask students to fill in the chart to see if they have got a general understanding of the whole passage.

Main Idea

Paragraph A A man suffering from a serious disease was unable to pay for treatment.

Paragraph B With a health care project’s help, Wang Lin’s disease was cured.

Paragraph C A new health project is aimed at exploring and developing a new health care model for China.

Paragraph D Many urban Chinese are living on money given by the government.

Paragraph E Millions of Chinese people in urban areas cannot afford proper health care.

Paragraph F Health care project is very important in our country’s efforts to fight poverty.

Paragraph G The Chinese government is taking measures to prevent the spread of AIDS.

Paragraph H People must help each other if society is to develop and prosper.

Paragraph I Our country is working hard to fight poverty and improve health care.

The main idea of the passage: The Passage gives a brief introduction to the health care condition in our country, and it emphasizes on the efforts that our government is making to fight poverty and improve health care by giving examples of Wang Lin.

Step 4 Careful-reading

1.In what way is Wang Lin’s situation similar to that of other low-income families?

They all can only make ends meet on their low income, and if someone in their families becomes seriously ill, the family is forced into poverty, and has to ask for help from the government.

2. Why is medical insurance so important to low-income families?

Because medical insurance can provide easy access to hospitals and clinics for low-income families.

3. What is the government doing about AIDS in China?

Chinese government has vowed to provide free AIDS tests for the general public as well as free treatment for those who cannot afford the treatment fees. And we learn from news that our government has decided to control the number within 1.5 million before 2010.

4. What can we do to care for the weakest members of our society?

Our country decided to move forward without leaving anyone behind. Now we are taking measures, such as reducing poverty, helping sick people get treated properly and providing medical insurance for the poor. And we all know that the famous programme “Developing the West”, it is an important measure to put an end to poverty. Only by helping each other, can our country develop and prosper.

Step 5 Comprehension

Unemployment-poverty-- bad housing condition/ no healthy diet/ cannot afford to purchase medical insurance/ no good education-AIDS/ accidents-- government programmes

Step 6. Post-reading

A. Choose the best answers:

1.Thanks to______,Wang Lin was able to receive a treatment in time to prevent the disease from ruining his health. 答案：C

A. his son in college B. the insurance for his family

C. the health care project D. the kindness of his family and neighbors

2.According to the text, if Wang Lin had had______, the sickness wouldn’t have caused such a big problem. 答案：C

A. a good job B. a high income C. insurance D. a good doctor to consult

3.What’s the aim of new health care project? 答案：D

A. Helping people get rid of poverty.

B. Exploring and developing a new health care model for China.

C. Letting sick people treated properly.

D. Providing medical insurance for the poor.

4.According to the United Nations AIDS agency’s report,how many people will be infected by AIDS in China by 2002 unless more is done to prevent the spread of the disease? 答案：B

A.9 million. B.10 million. C.11 million. D.12 million.

5.The text“A Helping Hand”is mainly about______. 答案：C

A. millions of Chinese people in urban areas can’t afford proper health care

B. the Chinese government is taking measures to prevent the spread of AIDS

C. a new health care project is being explored and developed in China

D. people must help each other if society is to develop and prosper

B. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with one to three words.

The poverty and the poor health care of low-income families The government’s efforts to fight poverty and poor health care

Low-income families cannot afford to pay for 1________, that is to say, they cannot afford to 2 _____a doctor or 3______medicine. ① The government encourages health care form and reduces poverty by designing a health care project which provides poor patients with treatment at 7____or less to help them get treated properly.

② The Chinese government is working with other countries and international organizations to explore and develop a new 8_______ for China.

③ The government encourages people to 9_________ in order that other measures to fight poverty will work.

④ The government has vowed to stop the spread of AIDS by providing free 10_______

Low-income families cannot provide 4___ for their children.

Many low-income families cannot afford to 5_______.

Low-income families live on allowance 6____________.

Keys:1. medical treatment 2. consult 3.purchase/buy 4. a healthy diet 5. purchase medical insurance. 6. given by the government 7. half the cost 8. health care model 9. purchase medical insurance 10. tests and treatment

C. Answering the questions on P77.

Step 7 Homework

Finish all the exercises on Word Study and Grammar on p77-79.

Integrating Reading Skills

The Little Mould That Could (P79)

Step 1. Scan the passage

A. find the main idea

Paragraph 1 Fleming was excited about his discovery, which he called Penicillin, but other scientists showed no interest.

Paragraph 2 Penicillin played a very important role during the World War II and at present as well.

Paragraph 3 Fleming discovered a mould that can kill bacteria by accident.

Paragraph 4 Health care in the past was often dangerous and risky.

Paragraph 5 Alexander Fleming invented many ways to treat the wounded during the World War I

B. answer after scanning the passage as quickly as possible.

1. What could the little mould do?

The little mould that could treat/cure/fight infection.

2. who discovered it? When was it discovered?

In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered it

3.What is its name?

It is called penicillin (In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin that could treat/cure/fight infection.)

Step 2 Careful reading

Choose the best answers:

1.Who discovered penicillin? 答案：B

A. Howard Walter Florey. B. Alexander Fleming.

C. Paul Ehrlich. D. Earnst Boris Chain.

2.It was not until_____that the importance of Fleming’s discovery was fully recognized? 答案：B

A. World WarⅠ B. World WarⅡ C.1928 D.1929

3.When did Fleming receive the Nobel Prize with the two other scientists? 答案：D

A. In 1914. B. In 1928. C. In 1929. D. In 1945.

4.From Paragraph 4 of the text“The Little Mould That Could”we can see that Fleming was all the following except______. 答案：D

A. confident B. strong-willed C. hard-working D. kind and warm-hearted

Step 3. Read the passage again and finish the exercises on the page 78 .And retell the life experience of Fleming and how he discovered penicillin.

Alexander Fleming was a young doctor in the early 1900s when a German chemist developed a chemical treatment to cure an incurable disease. Fleming began using it in his clinic. Then in 1914, he had to go to the battlefield to treat wounded soldiers during World WarⅠ, when he invented many ways to treat the wounded. After returning from the war, he went on with the search for the

chemical because he believed it could treat infections. One day, he found a mould was growing in some old glass containers. To his surprise, the bacteria he had been growing had died. He believed that it was the mould, which later he called penicillin that killed the bacteria. Penicillin was a great

discovery. It played a very important role during World War Ⅱ and as well as at present time. Fleming was awarded Nobel Prize for his great discovery in 1945.

Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin

Phrases:

1.take measures to do sth.

2.a laid-off worker

3.have an income of

4.to make matters worse

5.take a bank loan

6.put extra pressure on the family

7.keep a healthy diet

8.live in poverty

9.make ends meet

10.look forward to

11.ready-made clothes

12.cure many diseases

13.a story of hard work

14.search for

15.clean up

16.in a good mood

17.set a goal

18.be effective in

Reading on P213

Florence Nightingale

She is remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for the reform of the British military health-care system.

Main idea

Para.1 (Para1): Fear had gripped the nation when SARS broke out.

Parts2(Para2-7): Thanks to the quick and forceful action the country took and the sacrifices the health care staff made, SARS ended in he summer of 2003.

Part 3 (Para 8): We will never forget the “Angels in White”.