Unit 11 Reading club 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Unit 11 Reading club Learning Objectives 02 03 To know about people in comas and and explore the conditions of using life support machines. To understand some compensation lawsuits To guess the meaning and usage of words in a specific context. 01 Reading club 1 Tasks for Preview Underline the following sentences on your textbook and try to guess the meaning of the highlighted words. 1. ...Terri’s parents still believed that her coma was only temporary. 2. Terri fell into a coma when a heart attack robbed her brain of oxygen, causing permanent harm. 3. When there is a minimum of harm to the brain and the coma is brief,... 4. ...doctors admit that they don’t know if or how well patients will progress... Pre-reading Pre-reading What are life support machines? Life support machines enable patients to survive for a period of time while their body is recovering from a specific illness or injury. They benefit patients who only need them for a short time, as well as people who are attempting to maintain quality of life for the long term. Life support machines are also beneficial in the event that the patient is deemed “brain dead”. In these circumstances, the organs continue to receive oxygen-rich blood flow to keep them functioning. Pre-reading 1. What was the legal case mentioned in the text? 2. What were the controversies raised in the case? The controversies were that Terri’s parents still believed that the coma was only temporary while Terri’s husband believed that Terri would not have wanted to live on in this state. Some people claimed that life is sacred, which no one has the right to end, while many people thought it was the right thing to have Terri taken off life support machines. The legal battle is whether the life support machines should be taken off a coma patient Terri Schiavo who spent 15 years in a coma-like state. While-reading Post-reading 3. Should people in comas be kept on life machines? What’s your opinion? Give your reasons. I believe the matter is