【精品课件】高二英语intergrating skill.pptVIP

Unit7 Living with disease Integrating Skills Skimming 1. How do you understand the title? 2. What will the text be about according to the title? 3. What’s the main idea of each paragraph? Main ideas of each paragraph Para 1: Hearing the bad news, I felt empty and hopeless. Para 2: Knowing about the cancer, I felt hopeful. Para 3: Receiving the painful treatment, I felt sick but found strength to recover with the help of my family and friends. Para 4: Defeating the terrible cancer for the moment, I felt a new life had begun. Do you know about the serious disease---cancer? It is difficult to cure completely. And when a person begins to get cancer, he doesn’t know anything about it. He feels like a healthy person. But when he feels sick, this disease has developed to the afternoon. At that time, the person will suffer a lot. Even if it can be treated with medicine, chemicals and radiation, most patients will die not a long time after the discovery of the disease. However, if a patient keeps up an optimistic and calm state of mind, and actively get treated by doctors, he will live longer than other patients with cancer. 1. How did cancer change the writer’s life? At first the writer was very sad and pessimistic about the disease and thought that he was going to end. With the help of his family, friends, doctors and other kind persons, he picked up his courage. He decided to face the case bravely and struggled against the disease. The treatment proved to be successful. Soon he went home from hospital. From this experience, he has realized that though he will never be completely free from cancer, he will go on struggling for a longer life. Also he has realized that how precious life is and has learned how to enjoy beautiful life. 2. How do you think your life would change if you found out that you had an incurable disease? I think I would react like the writer at first. But I would also learn from Xiaohua and the writer of this passag