Quizzes
1)
Informational
Quiz #1 from Internet TESL Journal.
2) HIV
Quizzes from AVERT, with different subjects and
different levels of difficulty.
3) HIV/AIDS
Quiz from iVillage.
Task: Try one or more of the quizzes.
Question: How did you do on the quiz(zes)? What kind of
additional information about HIV and AIDS would you like to know? Continue
with this activity to see if you can get more answers!
AIDS LifeCycle from the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Task: Take the tour that explains and shows with images how the
HIV virus causes AIDS.
Question: What did the site also say about ways in which
scientists are working to stop the virus? (Hint: See Stage 2.)
UNAIDS
Task: This web site lists AIDS statistics by country. Choose
two or
more places of interest to you.
Question: Compare the places that you chose. How are they similar?
Different?
HIV Glossary from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Task: Not sure about a word you've heard? Look it up in this
special dictionary.
Question: Does this seem like a glossary for medical people,
or for "every day" people? What information was helpful, and what was
not?
UNICEF
Task: Choose "Interactive game: What would you do?"
Question: What were your results the first time you played? Go back
again and try for a different result. What choices caused what kinds of results?
The Immune System
and AIDS Crossword Puzzle
Task: Guess the answers in the puzzle. If you need help with vocabulary,
try the free online dictionaries at iTools or Bartleby.
Question: What words did you already know? What new words did you
learn?
Global HIV/AIDS
Timeline, 1981-2005, from Kaiser Family Foundation.
Task: Pick a date that has personal importance to you, some time
between the years 1981-2005. It could be a year you graduated, celebrated
a birth, made a special trip, etc. Check that date on the timeline on this
page.
Question: What was
happening with HIV-AIDS in that year? What happened in the year(s) prior
to that? Afterwards?
HIV
and AIDS Webcasts from Healthology.
Task: Choose one or more webcasts to listen to and/or watch.
Note that you can read the transcript at the same time if you like. (Your
computer should have RealPlayer installed in order to receive the webcast.
RealPlayer is available for free from Real.)
Question: Who delivered the information in the webcast(s)? How does
this form of delivery (voices, video) differ from traditional text? Which
do you prefer (how do you learn best), and why?
Daily
HIV News Update from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
Task: Choose an article on AIDS and prepare a short summary.
Question: What questions would you like to ask the author of this
article? How could you find the answers?
It's
Up to Us, An HIV-AIDS Curriculum for ESL Students
Task: Choose one of the five lessons or one of the supplementary
exercises that interest you.
Question: Was this old or new information for you? Can you think
of someone else who should know about this? If yes, email him or her
the information from this site.
Making a Difference
Question: What can you do to help inform people about HIV and
to reduce its spread in the world?
Task: Send an e-postcard from one of the following sites:
1) The
Body
2) Red
Cross Red Crescent
Expressing Yourself
Question: Do you know anyone who has been directly or indirectly
affected by HIV-AIDS?
What feelings or opinions does this topic bring to mind for you personally?
Task: Choose from the four forms below and write a poem about someone
or something that you associate with HIV-AIDS.
Cinquaine Five-line poems that are very easy to write.
Diamante Diamond-shaped poems - real gems! Seven lines in all.
Haiku A short, three-line poem (originally from Japanese) with the
form: 5,7,5 syllables.
Renga A poem written by three people together.
International AIDS
Awareness Day on December 1st: