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Teaching Design Book 8 Unit 2 Cloning: Where is it leading us? (Reading) 长治市第七中学 曹丹

Teaching objectives: After this period, students are expected to: 

Understand the definition, major uses of and controversy over cloning; 

Understand how cloning of mammals work; 

Discuss a controversial topic in English. Teaching difficulty: Discussion on the controversy over cloning of human beings. Teaching focus: Getting the main idea of each part with the help of the topic sentence and linkers. Teaching methods: Group work, individual work, group discussion Teaching steps: I lead-in and warming up Look at the pictures on P10 and discuss which ones are natural clones and which are man-made ones. How do they differ? II Pre-reading Read the title and think over the questions: 1.

Why is the author asking a question? 2.

Where do you think cloning is leading us, hell or heaven?

III Reading for the main idea (group work) Divide the text into 4 parts. Which two paragraphs belong to the same part? Why?

Divide the class into 4 groups and each group is to find out the main idea of each part in 3 minutes. Part 1: What is cloning? Part 2: Two major uses of cloning Part 3: Different attitudes towards Dolly the sheep Part 4: Different attitudes towards human cloning

IV Reading for important information (individual work) Q&A 1.

Find out two examples of cloning in Part 2; 2.

What are the two major uses of cloning? 3.

Find out two adjectives having the opposite meaning in part 2. 4.

Find out as many words describing the attitudes towards Dolly the sheep as possible in part 3. 5.

Find out words describing attitudes towards human cloning in part 4.

V Summary (Blank-filling)

VI Discussion: Where is cloning leading us?

VII Homework 1.

Watch

“Jurassic Park”; 2.

Reading comprehension; 3.

Read the debate in the workbook over the use of medical cloning and underline the opinions of each part.