Reading and vocabulary教学设计模板

Designer: 谢飞

Book 6 Module 5 Cloning (Cultural corner) Brave New World

Teaching aims: To develop students’ reading ability To help activate students’ creativity and improve their thinking ability. Teaching difficulties: 1.

Some technical words. 2.

Deep meaning between the lines. 3.

Structure analysis and ability of summary. Teaching aids: PPT and computer. Teaching procedures: 引路

Step I lead-in. (a series of questions) What is a clone? ( review the knowledge of Cloning and DNA and lead in) Will human cloning be sure to happen in the near future? How about a human cloning society? Can you use your imagination to describe such kind of world? Step II. Reading. 探路

Part I fast reading: prediction and title guessing. 1.

→A human cloning world exists in a book called Brave New World 2.

Background information:

The title derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, 203–206：

O wonder!

How many godly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,

That has such people in't. About the writer Aldous Huxley(阿道司赫胥黎）

Time: 1894—1963, he was a grandson of the famous biologist Thomas Henry Huxley(1825-1895) 3.

What kind of book is it?

Science fiction. 探路、修路、铺路

Part II Detailed reading (part1) 1.Who wrote the book? When ?

An Englishman called Aldous Husley wrote it in 1931.

2.On appearing ,what happened to it ? It became a subject of much discussion. 3.Why is it so famous? Because it describes a terrifying future world that is becoming more and more possible.

Part II

What are the settings (background) of this world?

When: 600 years in the future.

Who: world government and cloned people in the factory. Something about the government: 1.

What's the aim of the government?

Its aim is for people to be happy. 2.

Why does the government have such an aim?

1). To make the world no more wars and violence.

2). They don’t want people to change the

society．

3. How does government make its aim come true? (they are under control)

1) People are cloned in factories

2) They are taught to like and dislike certain things and people

3) They use soma to control them Something about the cloned people.

Status: alphas(leaders), betas(good position) and three lower groups including epsilons (factory workers). General understanding: 1.

What are the most important features of the society described in Brave New World?

The government is in absolute control. It organizes society by drugs and other methods so that it is stable(稳定的）. Everyone has a place and stays in it. The people are all happy with their position in society. 2.

Why is the book more important than ever？

Because these questions are more and more possible.

扩路、夯路

Step III. Post reading. Critical thinking: How do you understand the title “Brave New World”? Is it really a brave and new world?

Answer: Irony

If this kind of world become possible in the future, is it a good thing for us? Why or why not?

夯路

Step IV. Homework

Write a composition about your opinions on human cloning.