Using LanguageⅡ优质课教案整理

Teaching plan

Speaking and Writing Teaching Goals:

Teaching Goals:

1.To develop Ss’ speaking and writing ability.

2.To enable Ss to use the expression to express their opinions. 3. To learn some information about cloning. Purpose: To encourage Ss to express their personal opinions about animal cloning.

1. Get Ss to

prepare a discussion in pairs according to the information in Ex3 on P17～18. (every member should take notes when they are preparing). 2. Get Ss to have the class discussion by using these words and phrases on P18 which may be useful during the discussion 3. Divide Ss into four groups and ask them to discuss how to give a speech 4. Divide Ss into two groups to have a debate.

Topic: Are you for or against cloning?

Target Language:

Debate, issue, competition, in charge, topic, argument, reply to, summarize, profitable, donate, existence, embryo, justified, transfer, ethically, Cloning, attitude, medicine, organ I suggest that medical cloning is very important of curing serious illnesses that at present have no cure. I would like to suggest that medical cloning is not as simple an issue as my colleague claims. I agree with …

How would you do…?

Do you think …?

Teaching methods

Task-based teaching method Teaching aids

A computer and a projector

Step1.Revision

1.

Greetings 2.

Check the homework and ask the Ss to speak out their opinion about the medical cloning Step 2 Discussion Discuss how we should behave towards the human clones. 1.

How would you treat human clones? 2.

Do you think they should have legal and political rights, such as getting married or voting? 3.

Do you think they are separate people or part of the donors? Step 3 Speaking task

Debating Should we clone? Center on the subject: Why should we use cloning? Organize main ideas that support your point of view List your own idea Make a conclusion

Notes for debating: Argument for cloning: 1)

Cloning will be beneficial to humans, For example, if a couple can’t have children, cloning could help give them a child; 2)

We could use cloning to cure illnesses. Arguments against cloning 1)

healthy risks form mutation of genes 2)

emotional risks 3)

against nature 4)

risk of abuse of the technology 5)

Cloned animals get ill and die quite young; 6)

People are afraid of that scientists will create sands of copies of the same person 7)

Cloning is dangerous because scientist may create monsters by mistakes. Step 4 Writing Write around 250 words on the debate. Organize your writing in this way: Paragraph1: the topic of the debate and who won Paragraph2: the ideas of the winning side Paragraph3: the ideas of the other side Paragraph4: conclusion and your reaction to the debate, together with any idea you feel they left out. 1. Get Ss to collect the ideas for articles by brainstorming. For reference:

Help to save the endangered

animals

To produce commercial quantities of plants For

cloning

Valuable for research on new plant species Valuable for medical cloning

Against cloning Animal clones may die younger than the donor animals Evil leaders may want to clone themselves

2. Ask Ss to write their articles in the following way. Paragrapgh 1: the topic of the debate and who won Paragrapgh 2: the ideas of the winning side Paragrapgh 3: the ideas of the other side Paragrapgh 4: conclusion

3. Get Ss to write their articles and exchange their articles and correct the mistakes. They are expected to assess the writing. First , students are supposed to give a general mark with their general impression of the writing. Then they are expected to assess the writing in the three aspects, content language, and organization. Ss have to correct the mistakes or point out the mistakes by underlining the words, phrase or sentences with＂＿＿＿＿＿＂．

Students are also expected to underline the beautiful words, phrases or sentences with “_______”. After the assessment, the groups will discuss how to correct the mistakes.

4. The writings with the high levels will be shown on the projector so that the whole class can appreciate them. Step 3. Homework 1. Ask Ss to review what has been learned in this unit. 2. Ask Ss to preview the next unit.