Listening and vocabulary教案3

Module 5

Cloning

Listening

Learning aims：

To make Ss to improvie their listening ablities. To make Ss to learn more advantages and disadvantages of cloning. Part One: Pre-listening

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Look at some pictures and answer questions. (Page61 Activity 1) Q: What do the animals in the picture have in common?

1. Who do we get our genes from?

2. Who do cloned animals get their genes from?

3. Are the parents in two sentences the same? Why?

4. What the relationship between the clone animal and its parent? (2)

Match the words with their definitions

(P61 Activity2 ) beneficial

disagree

extinct

helpful argument

support

be for

disagreement or quarrel

be against

no longer existing (3) Say which of the arguments below are for cloning and which are against cloning. (P61 Activity3)

Write F (for)

A (against) 1. Cloning is against nature._______. 2. Cloning will be beneficial to humans. For example, if a coup le can’t

have children, cloning could help give them a child.____ 3. Cloned animals get ill and die quite young.___ 4. People are afraid that scientists will create thousands of copies of the

same person.___ 5. Cloning is dangerous because scientists may create monsters by mistake.____ 6. We could use cloning to cure illness._____ Part Two

while-listening

(1) Listen to a radio discussion about cloning and check whether the arguments for and against cloning are mentioned in Activity 3.

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(2) Listen to correct the wrong information .

(P62 Activity5)

1. Dr Hugh Donaville works for a company that has already cloned a number of people. 2. A sheep called Dolly was cloned in 1998. 3. Dolly the sheep died in 2003. 4. Donaville thinks scientists treated Dolly the sheep as a product. 5. Donaville says that if a child is very ill, scientists could clone it. 6. Donaville thinks is a good idea to have thousands of copies of the same person. 7. Donaville says that we could clone animals that have become extinct. Part Three : Consolidation

Fill the chart with the right information from the passage.

For cloning Against cloning Cloning will be ___________to Cloned animals _______ _____ and humans. If a _______ can’t have die quite _________ but scientists children, cloning can help them. still can’t tell why.

Cloning is a way of _________

Cloning is________ and nature. _________nature. A clone can never be an ________

Cloning treats animals and people copy, your genes, ________ and as_______, as_________ ________ work together create who you are. We could clone animals that are Scientists will create thousands of __________ ___________ ________ of the same person. Part four: After–reading Are you for or against cloning? Discuss with your partners and state your reasons.

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