Reading and vocabulary教学设计

Book 6 Module 5

Cloning and DNA

by Han Xiaoming Teaching objectives: 1.

Students master the relevant words and phrases in the text; 2.

Improve students’ competence of reading；

3.

Strengthen the importance of properly using the new technology and caring for others; 4.

Raise students’ awareness of loving our life and knowing how to take advantage of the science and technology.

Teaching procedures: Step I Lead-in Raise the question “Supposing one day you meet another you , what’s your reaction?

“ in order to inspire the students imagination.

Step II Dialogue

Get to know the key point “gene”

Step III Reading Skimming : the passage may come from. Scanning :find the words in the passage

Task one: Give the definition 下定义

Task two: Grasping the structure :

Details reading: work in groups and discuss: to clone or not?

Step III Broaden your horizon ①Dolly –the world’s first

clone

②July 26 - Shanghai scientists have successfully cloned a pig from body cells for the first time in 2007. ③In 2001, the first cell clones of Kangkang and Shuangshuang were cloned in Laiyang

Agricultural College.

④Scientists in Yakutia, a region in the extreme northeast of Asia, have found the frozen bodies of two fully complete 10,000-year-old cave lions，and it’s said they will be cloned. ⑤Phillip Dupont , a vet from the U.S, created Ken (left) and Henry by using DNA taken from a skin cell of Melvin,

step IVWhat can we learn from it? What is most important is that we can make full use of the science of genetics to serve the people. As for the technology, it is a double-edged sword, for one thing, we can benefit from it, for another thing, if used unwisely, it will also do great harm to human beings.

Step V. Homework 1.Think of a situation to use the words” controversial, transparent, valid, optional,

handy .”

2Collect more information that interests you about cloning, and try to find some uses in daily life .