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.

Period 1 Reading

A Helping Hand (p75)

Step 1. Warming up
Task 1. guide the students to have a discussion on the following points:
Difficulties in learning English
Differences in learning English and Chinese
Characteristics of successful learners
Effective learning skills
Ways to develop confidence
Step 2. Scanning
Task 2. Read the passage and try to come up with the general idea of each paragraph:
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 3. Post-reading
Task 3: Answering the questions on P77.
Step 4 Homework
Finish all the exercises on Word Study and Grammar on p77-79.

Period 2. Integrating Reading Skills

The Little Mould That Could (P79)
Step 1. Revision
1. Check the Ss how further they understand the health care in China.
2. Check the homework. If necessary, give some examples to review the Subjunctive Mood.
Exercise 1 &2 on p213 is specially designed to check the Ss if they are familiar with the Grammar.
If necessary give more structures and let the students to make more sentences Using the structure.
Step 2. Scan the passage and find the main idea, then analyze the passage if possible.
Task: Read the passage in three minutes, and match each paragraph with its general idea.
Paragraph 1 A. Fleming was excited about his discovery, which he called Penicillin, but other scientists showed no interest.
Paragraph 2 B. Penicillin played a very important role during the World War II and at present as well.
Paragraph 3 C. Fleming discovered a mould that can kill bacteria by accident.
Paragraph 4 D. Health care in the past was often dangerous and risky.
Paragraph 5 E. Alexander Fleming invented many ways to treat the wounded during the World War I

Step 3. Read the passage again and finish the exercises attached to the passage.

Step 4.Extensive reading:

THE DISEASE
What is SARS?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory illness that was recognized as a global threat in March 2003, after first appearing in Southern China in November 2002.
What are the symptoms and signs of SARS?
The illness usually begins with a high fever (measured temperature greater than 100.4¢XF [>38.0¢XC]). The fever is sometimes associated with chills or other symptoms, including headache, general feeling of discomfort, and body aches. Some people also experience mild respiratory symptoms at the outset. Diarrhea is seen in approximately 10 percent to 20 percent of patients. After 2 to 7 days, SARS patients may develop a dry, nonproductive cough that might be accompanied by or progress to a condition in which the oxygen levels in the blood are low (hypoxia). In 10 percent to 20 percent of cases, patients require mechanical ventilation. Most patients develop pneumonia.
What is the cause of SARS?
SARS is caused by a previously unrecognized coronavirus, called SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). It is possible that other infectious agents might have a role in some cases of SARS.
How is SARS spread?
The primary way that SARS appears to spread is by close person-to-person contact. SARS-CoV is thought to be transmitted most readily by respiratory droplets (droplet spread) produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Droplet spread can happen when droplets from the cough or sneeze of an infected person are propelled a short distance (generally up to 3 feet) through the air and deposited on the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose, or eyes of persons who are nearby. The virus also can spread when a person touches a surface or object contaminated with infectious droplets and then touches his or her mouth, nose, or eye(s). In addition, it is possible that SARS-CoV might be spread more broadly through the air (airborne spread) or by other ways that are not now known.
What does "close contact" mean?
Close contact is defined as having cared for or lived with a person known to have SARS or having a high likelihood of direct contact wi

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