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Grammar Battle .
1. Pay attention to the sentence below.
The results could provide important clues for designing an effective AIDS vaccine.
The highlighted words in the sentence above are called nouns. Nouns are words used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns can be countable and
uncountable. A countable noun is a noun with singular or plural form, and it names anything we can
count. Example: We painted the
table red and the chairs blue.
Since he inherited his
aunt’s library, Jeremy spends every weekend indexing his books.
An uncountable noun is a noun that does not have plural form, and it names something we cannot count. An uncountable noun always takes singular verb in a sentence.
Example:
Oxygen is essential to human life.
We decided to sell
furniture we have.
2. Underline the nouns in the sentence Decide whether the nouns are countable C or uncountable UC
1. The birds are flying high to the blue sky.
2. Her hair is black and long.
3. There is a river near this village and the water flows rapidly.
4. The catastrophe occurs because the virus spreads fast.
3. Complete the table below by finding the nouns in the above reading text. Then, compare it to your friend’s
Countable Nouns Uncountable Nouns
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Completing Mission .
1. Read the reading passage below to do the exercises that follow
Published online 8 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038454812a
The AIDS Fight: Looking Ahead to 2010
Erika Check Hayden As this month’s International AIDS Conference in Mexico City ends, Erika Check
Hayden asks leaders of the HIV community what they expect to see on the agenda when the conference reconvenes in Vienna in 2010 — the year by which the world has agreed to
provide universal access to HIV treatment.
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Julio Montaner President, International AIDS Society, 2008–10 We want to make 2010 an accountability conference, so that we have a
clear idea of which promises have been made, kept and broken in the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy. And there will be more focus on eastern Europe,
where the epidemic is a catastrophe brewing. The issue of intravenous drug users is going to become dominant. Also, the distance between what we
know works and what we’re actually doing needs to be closed, or the epidemic will become totally out of control.
Michel Kazatchkine Executive director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria I expect more progress from the science of treatment, with more
powerful combination treatments and ways of selecting combinations of antiretrovirals to provide long-term suppression of the virus and avoid
resistance. I expect a lot more information on how antiretroviral therapy can help with prevention. And I’m looking for what percentage of
countries will have reached universal coverage in treatment; I’m quite hopeful for a number of middle-income countries in western Africa and
Latin America.
Peter Piot Executive directo s
Programme on HIVAIDS attention will be paid to the
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e on linking up countries’ health systems to AIDS activities.
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Tachi Yamada President, Bill Melinda Gates
Foundation Global Health Program I hope we will have thought through how to deal
with drug resistance and the need to go to second- line treatments. In prevention, I would like to see that
we’ve started on the roll-out of circumcision, and have doubled the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission. I’d like to know whether the addition of antiretrovirals to microbicide treatment will make a
difference. And I’d like a plan to address multiple concurrent partners in high-prevalence countries.
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Organization interviews
Julio Montaner
Michel Kazatchkine
Peter Piot Tachi
Yamada
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hese following questions based on the article above Do it by yourself
e HIV community?
4. id he say that they wanted to make an
1. Who reports the interviews with some leaders of th 2. How many interviewees are there? Who are they?
3. What were they talking about in the interviews? Who is Julio Montaner? Why d
accountability conference in 2010? 5. What did Mitchel Kazatchkine expect in fighting AIDS?
6. What did Peter Piot and Tachi Yamadha say about prevention?
in 2010 will be workable?
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whether they are n
antiretroviral circumcision
concurrent
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7. What is the main point of the interviews? 8. Do you think that the conference
9. What is the purpose of the text? hese are wo
ext. Identify ouns or verbs
conference reconvenes
treatment suppression
resistance prevention
transmission
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Across:
1. notice 4. a drug against of RNA
virus 5. meeting
6 medication
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ibility 1. respons
2. surrender antonym 3. plague
4 Find an article about AIDS and make a list of important points of the article Then, write your comments about it
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