Hepatitis B

Hepatitis is a general term for inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus. The virus is usually spread from person to person through contact with blood or body fluids of someone who has the infection. People experience this illness have symptoms like:

• Yellow skin or eyes (or jaundice)
• Not feeling hungry 
• Feeling tired
• muscle, joint or stomach pain 
• stomach upset
• diarrhea or vomiting

There are two types of hepatitis B.

• Acute hepatitis B which means no need treatment because body may be able to fight the infection on its own.
• Chronic hepatitis B need to see family doctor because family doctor will refer the patients to a gastroenterologist or other sub specialist that treats patients who have chronic liver problems.

The number of medical treatment available can be often successful as well as treatment with antiviral medicines. Treatment may take a year or more depend on the severity of the infection and the response to treatment.

Annual Greenhouse Emission

TASK 3:  Look through the Famous People Biographies Lessons 

•                 Choose a famous person
•                 Listen and read the biography text
•                 Do the vocabulary, phrase match and gap-filling activities

                                Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He has started the software enormous Microsoft and transferred it into the biggest software company in the world. As a result of this making him to become the richest person on earth.
He was interested in electronics since he was young man. He studied about a small technology company in 1975 and he called to ask if they were interested in his computer programmes. 
Later on, he reached agreement with IBM and placed Microsoft's windows on IBM computers, so this made Microsoft coming into IT industry. He was responsible for Microsoft from 1975 to 2006. He thought that computer could help people everyday life, so he worked hard to make his dream come true and invented many products which are used by people everyday. 
He retired from being Microsoft CEO on June 2008. Nowadays, he fills up his time with his wife. Moreover, he and his wife do the charity jobs by giving their money to the world that the governments don't pay attention to. For this reason, he was named "Flower Fly".

• Read a Biography of a famous Australian from Koori History and do the timeline

• Read some biographies and do the cloze activities

Fred Maynard 

Timeline

• On 4 July 1879                        He was born.
• 1884                                        His mother died and he and his sister were raised with strict                                                          discipline.
• 1914                                        He became a wharf labourer and active member of the waterside                                                  workers.
• In the early 1920s                   He made public protest against the attack on Aborigine's right.
• Early in 1925                          He and other helping Aboriginal families headed to rescue their                                                   own children.   
• 1925                                        He lunched the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association.
• On 14 June 1928                    He married with Methodist forms Minnie Critchley. 
• 1930s                                      He had injury on the dock and it was difficult for him to work. 
• On 9 September 1946            He was died by diabetes mellitus.  

                            John Adam: Cloze Activity 

1. second          2. Jefferson        3. farmer          4. Harvard           5. lawyer           6. signers                7. Independence         8. terms            9. Washington          10. 1797              11.White House             12. unpopular          13. speech         14. citizen            15. son             16. sixth          17. July            18. Thomas            19. written             20. President                                                    

Timeline: Martin Luther King

• 1929                            He was born
• 1955                            He was involved in fighting racial injustice
• 1950s to 1960s            He was the leader of the Civil Rights Movements against racism 
• 1963                            He was named Time Magazine's Man of the year 
• 1964                            He received the Nobel Peace Prize
•  1968                           He was supporting striking sanitation workers
• 4 April 1968                He was shot dead         

Nelson Mandela

Turning Points:

•  Aware of the unjust nature of South African Society.
•  Became involved in politics.
• Had to resign from the ANC and work underground.
• In 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 Black South African, as result of this he started to advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK).
• Had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island Prison.
• Mandela’s release in 1990.
• Lost his son.

Achievements:

• Was able to finish his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.
•  Opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa. 
• Conducted their own defence and they eventually proved to be victorious.
•  Helped to keep other Men’s spirits high and never compromised his political principles when offered early release.
• On 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999. 
• Has received many prestigious awards. 
• Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizejointly with F.W. De Klerk.