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Unit 2 Cloning using language Teaching Design

(THE RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS) Introduction Language is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students read, listen, write and speak in English, making use of the focused words, collocations, structures and topic ideas covered in this unit. The teacher may take the following steps in teaching: warming up by reading aloud the text on page 15 to the tape；Reading for forms；discussing about extinct animals；

talking about cloning and closing by looking and saying. Objectives

To help students read the passage THE RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS

To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures 1. Warming up by reading aloud the text on page 15 to the tape.

Why read aloud? Because reading aloud: 

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Is great fun, and it benefits our growth as readers and learners.

Nurtures our love of both the written and spoken word.

Gives us a chance to rediscover favorite stories and find new ones.

Helps us develop important language skills that will help us learn to read on our own.

2. Reading for forms

Read the text THE RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS on page 15: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful collocations.

3. Discussing about extinct animals

Some animals have gone for ever. Some animals are endangered. Dodo birds are endangered. Now in groups of four make a list of endangered animals and have a discussion of them.

Endangered Dodo birds

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dodo is the most suitable animal to be brought back to life. Here are the reasons：

Firstly, it’s friendly and not harmful, so we can keep it as pet for children.

Secondly, its large eggs and tasty meat could be developed for food. Finally, farmers can sell its feathers as decoration.

So I think the

dodo would be the best choice to be brought back to life.

4.Talking about cloning Cloning is something which will change the direction of the world development. Now let’s listen to more cloning.

Is cloning a good thing or a bad thing? Cloning is useful because 

. it could find a cure for illnesses that are presently incurable; 

it means that endangered species can be preserved; 

it could help families who cannot have children of their own.

Cloning is not useful because 

it might bring back to life creatures that might harm us

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it might produce monsters

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you might be cloned without your acknowledgement

Now you may work in pairs to put this listening material into a dialogue. 5. Closing by looking and saying Look at the photos and say something about cloning. What is it? How it done?