1、Unit 3A healthy life1.Read the headline and first paragraph of the reading passage and fill in the form below.WhoWhatWhereWhenIt began 6 years ago and is still continuingYunnan and several other provincesAn AIDS awareness programmeChinese Red Cross2.Read the second paragraph and answer:How is the pr
2、ogramme performed?By training volunteers from the same peer group to hold two-day classes.3.Read the rest of the passage and answer:Why does the Chinese Red Cross start the programme?Because the number of young people becoming infected by HIV through sexual activity is increasing.1.Answer the questi
3、ons according to the text.1)What two things does the programme do?It provides care and support for people suffering from HIV/AIDS and trains young people to teach other people about AIDS.2)Who teaches people in the community?3)Why is the programme so successful?Volunteers who come from a similar gro
4、up and are about the same age.Because they are being taught by people very much like themselves.4)What has recently changed in the way the virus is spread?In the past it was mainly drug users and people who had been carelessly transfused who were becoming infected with AIDS.Today,an increasing numbe
5、r of young people are becoming infected through sexual activity.5)Why is the Chinese government concerned about HIV/AIDS?The government believes that if they do not act quickly to stop the spread,the number of people in China infected by HIV/AIDS could be as high as 10 million by the year 2010.2.Lea
6、rn something about the newspaper article styles.The sentences are long and complex.The vocabulary is subject specific and does not use slang or colloquialism.It is written in the third person.There are no contractions.There is no mention of personal feelings or personal experience.Use short and simp
7、le sentences.Use active voice.Write in the first,second or the third person.Use contractions.(cant,wont)Use of formal styleUse of informal stylelArticles in books or newspaperslBookslLetters to people you do not knowlConversationlPlayslLetters between family members,friends or people you are familiar with
