EFL/ESL Links

Leslie Opp-Beckman's award winning page of activities for students

• Healthtalk by Bert McBean. Macmillan Language House, 2004, second edition. ISBN 4-89585-515-5. See an interview with Bert about Healthtalk, which includes a lesson on HIV/AIDS here.
• Discussion Starters: Speaking Fluency Activities for Advanced ESL/EFL Students
  Unit 19. Keith S. Folse; University of Michigan Press, 1996; ISBN 0-472-08334-1
• Risky Times: How to be AIDS-Smart and Stay Healthy; A Guide for Teenagers
  (Short reading passages suitable for int-adv learners)
  Jeanne Blake; Workman Publishing, Educational Sales Dept., 708 Broadway, New York, NY; 1990; ISBN 0-89480-656-4
• Teaching AIDS
  How do work with teens in relaying the facts, and changing behaviors
  Douglas Tonks; Routledge Publishers, 1996; ISBN0-415-90875-2
• Creating Compassion:Activities for Understanding HIV/AIDS
  A wide variety of activities aimed at young people but can be adapted to any level or classroom
  Phyllis Vos Weseman; United Church Press, 1994; ISBN 0-8298-0996-1

• Questions and Answers on AIDS, Third Edition
  Clear answers to most any question about HIV and AIDS. Up-to-date (as of 1997) information on opportunistic infections, treatments, epidemiology, and public policy. Appendix sections list U.S. organizations, Internet resources and state AIDS programs.
  Lyn R. Frumkin, MD., PhD. and John M. Leonard, M.D.; Health Information Press, Los Angeles, CA 90010; 1997
• AIDS: What Teens Need to Know
  For young adults (US grades 9-12)
  Barbara Christie-Dever; The Learning Works, Inc. P.O. Box 6187, Santa Barbara, CA USA 93160, 1996; ISBN: 0-88160-233-7
• AIDS Questions & Answers for Kids
  (US grades 5-6)
  Linda Schwartz; The Learning Works (see above address), 1987; ISBN 0-88160-154-3
• You Can Do Something About AIDS
  Suggestions on how to use your (or your community's) special abilities and talents to help stop the spread of HIV
  Sasha Alyson, Editor; The Stop AIDS Project, Inc., 40 Plympton St., Boston, MA, USA, 02118, 1988; ISBN 0-945972-00-8
• Ryan White, My Own Story
  Ryan tells about his experience with this deadly disease
  Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham; Signet 1991; ISBN 0-451-17322-8
• What Everyone Can Do to Fight AIDS
  How to teach children through adults about HIV and AIDS. How to get the community involved in projects.
  Anne Garwood and Ben Melnick; Josse-Bass Inc, publishers, 1995; ISBN 0-7879-0044-3
• Answering Your Questions About AIDS
  Seth C. Kalichman, PhD.; The American Psycological Association, Washington, D.C.; ISBN 1-55798-339-9
• The AIDS Caregiver's Handbook, Revised Edition
  Ted Eidson, Editor; St. Martin's Press, NY,1993; ISBN 0-312-08129-4
• When Someone You Know Has AIDS
  Personal stories of friends and families of people with AIDS dealing with every aspect of caregiving, health and financial planning, wills, and how to handle prejudice.
  Leonard J. Martelli, Fran D. Peltz, CSW, William Messina, CSW, and Steven Petrow; Crown Publishers, NY, 1993; ISBN 0-517-88039-3
• Beyond AIDS, A Journey into Healing
  Personal story of George Melton and Wil Garcia
  George R. Melton; Brotherhood Press, 279 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 185, Beverly Hills, CA USA 90212; 1988; ISBN 0-9621959-0-1

• An American Family Faces AIDS (NHK TV broadcast in English and Japanese with subtitles)
• Living With AIDS (TV broadcast in Japanese)
• Exploratorium - San Francisco. March 1996 (Exhibition about HIV/AIDS)
• Time Out - The Truth About HIV/AIDS and YOU (US. TV special with Magic Johnson)
• From The Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  Order through The Pediatric AIDS Foundation, 1311 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, USA 90404
  • Educating Our Children (Excellent for Japanese students of English as this video shows parents how to talk to small children about HIV)
  • A Parent Meeting (Discussion of problems associated with having an HIV + child in school)
• And the Band Played On
  
• Philadelphia
• The Cure
• Boys On The Side
• Our Sons
• Early Frost

THE BODY: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource -- http://www.thebody.com/
AIDS in Japan -- http://www.ajf.gr.jp/aidsinjapan/
Ask NOAH About: AIDS
POSTERS! San Francisco AIDS Foundation
CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

Sites for Medical updates

Aegis: AIDS Medical News and Library
CDC AIDS Daily Summary Database The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) releases abstracts of news and journal articles related to HIV/AIDS each day.

Organizations