Using LanguageⅡ第二课时 公开课

Teaching Plan for New Senior English for China Student’s Book 8 Unit 2 Cloning--- Post Reading Projects

Shijiazhuang No. One High School Bian Yuling 石家庄第一中学

卞玉玲

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Introduction to the class Class 1 consists of 48 students，who are divided into 8 groups. For each group, there is a leader, whose role is to get the group well organized and decide on group affairs. Most of the students are good at English, and they are hardworking and has a strong desire to achieve success. As a whole, the class is energetic and motivated to get involved in learning.

About Myself My name is Bian Yuling, 44 years old. Graduated from Hebei Normal University in 1996, I have been teaching English for more than 21 years and given prizes of national and provincial level for teaching. Devoted to exploring new approaches to teaching English, I have tutored many students, who got the first and second prizes in National English Proficiency Competition for Secondary School Students. Much to my pride, my students have got both English learning skills and great enjoyment in my class.

About the Teaching Material

New Senior English for China Student’s Book 8 is published by People Education Press. Cloning

is the second unit of this book. The students will learn about the development, application and controversial ideas of cloning. Division of the whole unit Part One:

Vocabulary Part Two:

Reading Part Three:

Learning about Language Part Four:

Using Language Part Five

Post Reading Projects In this lesson, I’ll deal with the Post Reading Projects, encouraging students from an overall perspective and voice their own opinions with a critical thinking. Module 8 Unit 2 Cloning--- Post Reading Project I.学情分析（Analysis of the students’

progress）

This teaching period will focus on the fifth section of this unit. After the students have learned all the words and reading passages on P11 and P15, they have got a general understanding of cloning.

In this period, they are expected to use what they have learned to do further discussion and exploration. 2

II.教学目标（Teaching aims）

Knowledge objectives 1) Words, phrases and sentences related to cloning. 2) Functional expressions of showing agreement and disagreement.

3) The basic skills of writing a news report. Cultivate the students’ ability use the information and opinions of cloning they have learned from the text to discuss and analysis the advantages and disadvantage of cloning. Based on the knowledge of recent reports and development of cloning, the students will be inspired to think from an overall perspective and voice their own opinions. In this way the students can be guided to form critical thinking. Learn advantage and disadvantage of cloning and its potential benefits in different fields as well as the potential problems. The course is aimed to enhance the awareness of the two edges of cloning and develop the critical thinking of the students. Ability objectives Emotion objectives

III.资源整合（The integration of teaching materials）

Materials integrated include LISTENING AND SPEAKING on P17, READING TASK --- A Debate--- on Page 58, WRITING TASK on Page61 and some online news reports. These materials are aimed to help students learn the possible use of cloning in different fields, as well as its benefits and potential problems.

IV.教学方法（Teaching methods）

Mainly, task-oriented individual work and group discussion and

contextual approach to language teaching are adopted in this teaching process.

V.教学媒介

(Teaching media）

Web-based Interactive teaching platform; Guided Learning Handouts; online micro teaching course and Internet resources including the latest English reports and videos on cloning and PPT.

VI.教学重难点

(Teaching focus and challenges）

To analyze the advantages and disadvantages of cloning and form an overall and critical view of cloning. The challenge is to enable the students to put their ideas in correct English by writing.

VII.教学过程

(Teaching Procedure）

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Step 1: Preparations for discussion before class (课前准备)

Tasks

※Compulsory assignment:(必做) The teacher upload the preparation assignment onto the Web-based Interactive Teaching Platform, including the following tasks: Task I: Use the iPad to listen to the listening passage on Page 17, collect and write down the speaker’s opinion of human cloning. And then think about the following questions:

Q1: Should human cloning be allowed or not?

Q2: How can human cloning help us and what are the potential problems?

Task II: Read the arguments on medical cloning on Page 58&59 (workbook). And then list out the reasons for and against medical cloning. Think about the benefits and problems it may bring. ※Optional assignment:（选作）

Some Website Links will be provided to the students on the Web-based teaching platform. Thus the students can get access to the latest news reports and different views on cloning as well as the fiction movies.

The chosen Website links include:

https://wenku.baidu.com/view/462f55cc5022aaea998f0faa.html

http://shc2000.sjtu.edu.cn/0411/kelongr.htm http://www.religioustolerance.org/cloning.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/1676559.stm Mammoth revival plan http://tech.sina.com.cn/d/2017-03-02/doc-ifycaafm4692344.shtml

[TED演讲] Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?

Activities 个体学习为主，侧重相关观点和讨论资料的积累！

教师设计导学案，指导学生有效完成预习任务。

Aims

旨在引导学生借鉴课文中和听力资料中的语言和观点，为课上开展的讨论和交流，准确表述自己的观点做充分准备。

Time 20 mins 通过网络教学平台，查阅有关克隆的最新报道和不同观点。

旨在帮助学有10 mins 余力，并对此话题感兴趣的同学了解克隆技术发展的最新动态，科学家、社会学家的、宗教人士、不同国家对克隆的态度。这将有助于学生形成批判性的观点。

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预习作业有梯度、有弹性。充分利用网络教学平台的优势，满足不同层次的学生的个性化学习需求。

Step 2: Introduction of the Topic(课上话题导入) Three areas of cloning will be introduced by riddle pictures:

Tasks

Picture 1: Human Cloning：

News Report：A 19-year old firefighter was killed while responding to a warehouse explosion. Unfortunately he was the only child in his family. His sad mother has lost the ability of giving birth naturally. She is eager to have a baby by cloning.

※Discussion:

Are you for or against human cloning?

Give reasons for your argument.

Activities 小组活动：该部分采用谜题图片的方式呈现话题。每个小组通过点击图片抽取相关话题，然后进行小组讨论。

操作方法：教师利用投影片呈现话题，然小组同学抽取某一谜题图片，然后解开话题，引导学生进行小组讨论。

Aims

旨在激发学生的好奇心，激发学生积极参与讨论，广泛了解克隆技术在不同领域的应用，交流探讨克隆技术在不同领域中应用时所产生的利弊，并发表个人见解。

Time 3 mins

Picture 2 medical cloning

Stephen William Hawking, a famous British physicist, had motor neuron disease, an incurable illness which would make him unable to speak, breathe or move without the help of a machine. Scientists are planning to help him cure his illness by developing healthy cells and organs.

※Discussion:

Are you for or against medical cloning? Please weigh the pros and cons, and give reasons for your argument.

※Discussion:

Are you for or against medical cloning? Please weigh the pros and cons, and give reasons for your argument. Picture 3: animal cloning

In August, 2012, Siberia scientists found a unique Mammoth skeleton in eastern Russia in which a well-preserved cell has been found. Then scientists launched the Mammoth Revival Plan led by George Church, a genetics scientist of Harvard University. He made a statement recently in March, 2017, that Mammoth is expected to be brought to life in two years’ time. However, John Hawks, a paleontologist（古生物学家）, doubted the truth of this report and thought it unwise to clone extinct animals.

※Discussion: Are you for or against cloning extinct animals? Give reasons for your argument.

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寓教于乐，引导学生通过小组合作、讨论从不同角度探究克隆引发的问题。

Step 3:

Discussion and Exploration（课上讨论和探究）) Tasks

Task 1: Learn the functional structures and expressions:

Before the discussion, allow the students to learn the functional structures and expressions which help the students to show agreement and disagreement. A micro-course given by the teacher is available on the Internet interactive teaching platform. The functional structures are listed as follows: SHOWING AGREEMENT I support….because….

I agree with….because….

Your argument has convinced me because….

Your idea sounds very encouraging to me. That’s a great idea.

SHOWING DISAGREEMENT I cannot accept your argument because…..

No, I can’t agree with….because…

How can you believe that? I would like to agree with you but….

I don’t care for your ideas because…

No, that is not reasonable because…

Task 2: A full exploration and discussion

Each group will have a full exploration and discussion on the chosen topic. Ask the students to think about the reasons for their own point of view. Use their own ideas as well as those collected from the text and listening passage.

Meanwhile, ask the group leader to keep a record of the ideas

put forward by the group members. The teacher will give them

a handout to guide the discussion.

Activities 首先教师要提前将微课上传到网络教学平台。在小组讨论前让学生观看微课，学习交流观点时可能会用到的句式表达（课本P18页，功能性用语）

Aims

旨在帮助学生提高语言表达的有效性。

Time 2 mins

小组活动：让每个小组围绕着自己抽取的话题进行深入、广泛的讨论。

让每个小5 mins 组成员充分思考并发表见解，组内深入进行信息和观点交流。

使学生的信息得到有效地、有条理的文字记录，以便进行班内展示和交流。

小组长负责Step 3 Discussion and Exploration 将支持和反1.

Functional structures that are helpful to us: (看微课时，请记录) 对的理由分

类整理到老2.

Our discussion and Exploration focus on 师事先给学________________________. (你组抽到的话题) 生下发导学

Reasons for support cloning: 案上。

Reason for opposing cloning:

附件：

Unit 2 Cloning ----Post-Reading Projects(导学案) ★【创新点3】

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将微课、导学案和小组讨论有机结合，实现讨论的实效性。

Step 4:

Presentation and Sharing （课上展示和交流）

Tasks

Activities Aims

旨在让学生分享和交流彼此的观点和学习发现。并且学习彼此准确的语言表达。

Time 7 mins

每个小组将整理好的讨论结果，拍The outcome of the group discussion will be displayed on the Wed-based Internet Interactive platform. 照上传到网络互动探究平台上。学All the students can look through all the records of the 生通过IPad可以discussion. Through this procedure they can learn from 查看其它小组的each other.

讨论成果。

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Step 5:

Topic writing （课上话题写作）

Tasks

The students will be given a writing task to report their opinions and improve their writing skills. 假设你是《燕赵晚报》的特约小记者，请你写一篇文章报道中学生对克隆的看法。你可以参照各组的讨论结果或网络上的报道和文章。字数在250字左右。

Each student will be given a piece of paper with pictures and designs. Before they start their writing, guide the students to learn the basic structure of a news report. The structure is displayed on PPT as follows:

The large main heading Paragraph 1: Introduction of the topic Paragraph 2: Ideas in favor of cloning

Paragraph 3: Ideas going against cloning Paragraph 4: conclusion and your own attitude towards cloning, together with any latest ideas you feel they left out

充分利用网络教学平台，在有效地时间内实现最广泛的交流。

Activities 话题写作：学生结合前面讨论和交流后获取的成果，写一篇250字左右的文章，报道中学生对克隆的看法。写作时可参考各组讨论结果或相关网络报道。

同时老师利用PPT指导新闻报道的基本写作框架，指导学生布局文章内容。

Aims

Time 该活动旨25 在进一步内化mins 所学知识和观

点,提升语言表达的逻辑性和准确性，并且提炼和形成自己的见解。

将知识转化为写作能力。并在写作过程中加深理解克隆技术的利弊。

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避免了讨论流于形式，真正将观点和语言知识内化为语言表达能力。

Step 6:

Assessment and Publication（课后评价和制作学习杂志）（Homework）

Tasks

Activities 学习评价：学生将文章拍照上传到网络平台。老师和同学打分和点评。最后课代表和班委将其装订成英语学科阶段学习杂志。

Aims

Time All the papers will be collected and compiled into a periodical learning magazine. Meanwhile, all the article will be shared on the Internet interactive learning platform. Each article will be scored and commented by all the students and the English teacher. Each group will be awarded with different credits according to the online comments.

该活动旨

在为学生进一步提供展示的平台，同时通过教师点评和生生互评，获取良好公正的学习评价，以便更好的提升自己的能力。

★【创新点6】

通过真实、公正的评价促进学习能力的提升；同时通过资料的留存，记录学习轨迹。

On the Blackboard:

M8 U2 Cloning

Post Reading Project

credits board:

Language difficulties: Group 1:

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some barriers or brilliant ideas

Group 2:

2 collected from the students and be Group 3:

5 presented here. Group 4:

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Group 5:

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Group 6:

6 Group 7:

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Group 8 :

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Group 3:

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A flowing chart of the teaching process:

Preparations for discussion before class

through compulsory and optional assignments to

collect facts and opinions of cloning.

Introduction of the Topic: Three areas of cloning application will be introduced by riddle pictures to arouse the students’ interests.

Discussion and Exploration: Allow the students to have a full exploration and discussion on the chosen topic guided by the learning handouts and online micro-courses. Presentation and Sharing The outcome of the group discussion will be displayed on the Web-based interactive teaching platform so that they can learn from each other. Topic writing: The students will be given a writing task to report their opinions and improve their writing skills.

Assessment and compilation（Homework）

All the papers will be collected and compiled into a periodical learning magazine. Meanwhile, all the article will be shared on the Internet interactive learning platform.

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