Using LanguageⅡ教案及板书设计

Using Language II

The Return of the Dinosaurs? Teaching goals 教学目标

1. Target language目标语言

a. 重点词汇和短语

theme，fighting，conflict，argument，destruction，in one’s opinion b. 交际用语Expressing and supporting an opinion I would never accept... I’m not bothered about... I don’t mind but... I hope you’ll carry on... Are you sure you want to...? I agree with you that... Do you think it is wise to...? I think you should... Well done to you for... I can’t help thinking... I could never agree to... 2. Ability goals能力目标

Enable the students to express their opinions about cloning using some useful expressions. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标

Help the students learn how to express their opinions. Teaching important points教学重点

Learn to use the structures of expressing and supporting an opinion. Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How to give a speech Teaching methods教学方法

Cooperative learning

Teaching aids教具准备

A computer & a projector Teaching procedures 教学过程

I．

Warming-up 1. Do you know anything about dinosaurs?

2. Have you ever seen the film Jurassic Park?

II．

Reading 1.

The writer of the text_____

A. is excited by the possibility of cloning fierce and extinct animals

B. believes that extinct animals can be brought back to life by cloning C. thinks it impossible or unsuitable to clone extinct animals like dinosaurs

D. dreams of dinosaurs returning to the earth 2. The film Jurassic Park is popular because _____.

A. people are interested in the subject of cloning

B. all the actors are dinosaurs

C. it was directed by a scientist who clones dinosaurs

D. it proves very interesting 3. The reasons why a group of cloned animals all die of the same illness do NOT include____.

A. they have the same arrangement of genes

B. there isn’t enough diversity in the group for it to overcome illnesses C. the illness is a new one D. their arrangement of genes can not resist that new disease 4. We can infer from the text that____

A. scientists are experimenting to clone dinosaurs B. dinosaurs will never return to the earth C. cloned animals will only live in the zoo D. the DNA of dinosaurs can only survive 10 000 year III. True or false according to the text 1.

Scientists are still experimenting with cloning mammals because they think it can make money. 2.

The animals that have disappeared from the earth, like dinosaurs, can be brought back to life through cloning. 3.

If we can clone any extinct animals, we should let them live in a zoo.

IV. Language points:

◇Scientists believe human cloning is just a matter of time but the assumption that human clones have already been born hasn’t been proved yet.

[考点] a matter of ... 意为__________________________。

[考例] I can’t say which wine is best —

it’s a (n) _____ of personal taste.

A. affair

B. event

C. matter

D. variety [点拨] a matter of personal taste意为“___________________________”。

1. The popularity of the film Jurassic Park, in which a scientist clones several different kinds of extinct dinosaurs, proves how the idea struck a mixture of fear and excitement into people’s hearts.

在《侏罗纪公园》这部电影中, 有一位科学家克隆了好几种不同的绝种恐龙。类似这样的电影很受欢迎, 证明了这一想法使人们感到既兴奋又恐惧。

in which引导定语从句, how引导宾语从句。

◇strike v. (struck, struck) 敲打，撞击，罢工，打动，突然想到

他用拳头击打桌子。____________________________________________________________ 使。。。刻骨铭心

_____________________________________________________________ 某人突然想起。。。

____________________________________________________________ 罢工

______________________引人注意的___________________________ 她父亲的离世给她带来了刻骨铭心的悲伤。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 2. From time to time people suggest that extinct animals, like dinosaurs, can possibly be brought back to life through cloning.

人们时常设想灭绝的动物,例如恐龙,有可能通过克隆技术使它们复活。

from time to time_______________________= occasionally, _______________________。

食品安全事故时不时地发生。

_____________________________________________________________________________

◇bring back to life

使复活

他死了，没有什么东西可以让他复生。

_____________________________________________________________________________ come to one’s life ___________________come to a stop_________________ bring sth. to a stop_________________ 3. Diversity in a group means having animals with their genes arranged in different ways.

群中的多样性指的是拥有基因排列方式不同的动物。

with their genes arranged in different ways作___________ in different ways _____________________ 4. Others will survive and pass on the ability to resist that disease to the next generation.

其他的将存活下来并传递其后代抵抗这种病的能力。

resist

vt.

resist sh. /doing sth. ____________________ ____________________________禁不住某事/做某事

resist the enemy/ temptation 抵抗敌人/抵制诱惑

根据汉字提示完成句子

(1) We are determined to stay and _____________________ (抵抗敌人). (2) Tom ________________________ (忍不住开玩笑) about his strange hairstyle. (3) Quite a few people in power __________________________________ (抵制不住金钱的诱惑) and disobey the law. 5. The dodo became extinct fairly recently so its DNA is still in good condition.

in good / poor condition______________________________ 汽车损害严重，状况很坏。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 拓展：

1. Don’t worry about me. I am in condition.(

) 2. I can’t climb the mountain because I am out of condition. (

) 3. You can borrow the book on (the) condition that you do not lend it to anyone else. (

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4. You must on no condition tell him what happened. (

) 5. working / living / learning conditions(

) Exercises: 1.刘先生试图让一只得重病的青蛙复活。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 2. 他注定会失败的。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 3. 后来他又想修好一辆状况很差的车,

但是白费功夫了。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 4. 他时不时的感到很沮丧。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 5. 然而, 他的工作是值得的。

_____________________________________________________________________________ 6. 他获得了丰富的医学和修理经验。

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