Teaching procedures:
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 besides the 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 Ideas of each paragraphs:
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.
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 b
Health Care