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Unit2 Cloning

Using language (II) Listening and speaking

甘肃省白银市平川中学 李生敏

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Teaching goals: 教学目标

1.Language skill goals 语言技能目标

Teach the students how to get the specific information and background knowledge about cloning by revision before listening. 2. Language learning ability goals 语言学能目标

a. The aim of the listening is for students to examine the issue of whether experimenting with animals is cruel or not. b. Train students’ skills from extensive listening to intensive listening.

c. The aim of the speaking is to talk about different types ideas on cloning by using expressions about the reason for your point of view. 3.Emotional attitude and cultural goals情感态度和文化目标

a. Develop the value of setting up science and improve the cooperation among students to share their own opinions. b. Inspire students to care more about the health of cloning animals and the prospect of clone and it is of great significance of reality.

Teaching important points 教学重点

a. Listen to the materials about “Is clone cruel?” and finish the tasks.

b.Train students’ skills from extensive listening to intensive listening

c.Learn to use the structures of expressing and supporting an opinion.

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Teaching difficult points 教学难点

a. Work together with partners and show their own opinions. b. Talk about different types ideas on cloning by using expressions about the reason for your point of view. Teaching procedures: StepⅠRevision a. Greetings b. Revision: The aim of this activity is for students to get the specific information and background knowledge about clones by character’s brief introduction and video shown, it can be able to examine and discuss some of the issues associated with cloning. This also help them from their own opinions. StepⅡ

Listening task(Page 17) 1. T: Now

let’s come to using language (II) listening and speaking. There is a conversation between Xiao Qing and Rachel Brown, listening carefully.Try your best to do it. Read these statements before listening. Tick those that you hear

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1. Cloning will bring dead pets to life.

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2.There are 627 experiments before Dolly was successful cloned.

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3.Cloning may help cure serious illnesses.

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4.It’s a dead end.

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5.Dolly the sheep was “middle- aged” when she was born. （

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6.So your grandmother would be able to start her life all over again and live much longer.

Suggested answer: 1

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5 2.Listen to talk again and fill in the blank . IS CLONING CRUEL?

Xiao Qing (XQ) and Rachel Brown (RB)

are discussing whether cloning is cruel to animals or not. Fill in the blanks RB: Xiao Qing, do you think cloning’s _____?

XQ: What do you mean by that? The scientists are doing a __________ job. Soon they may be able to bring people’s

favourite _____ back to life! RB: Yes, I know. But doesn’t it seem cruel to you that it took ___ experiments before Dolly was ________cloned? Think

of all those live _____ and eggs that died in order for Dolly to be _____. I don’t approve of that!

XQ:

But, Rachel, be ___________. Isn’t it always like that with a _____ science? This is the way people learn to do

things

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______.

RB: I suppose so —

but they also make the animals do such _________ things. One poor cow was made to give birth to a

bison. What was the poor creature to think _______ it saw its baby? XQ: I don’t quite understand ____ so many

people are ________ cloning. I think the scientists _____ a bit of encouragement. Think of the _______. Cloning may help

medical science to produce cures for serious ________. RB:

Yes, I know and I agree with that. It’s just that I don’t agree with the ________.

XQ: Why not? RB:

Well, I think it’s a dead _____. Dolly the sheep was “middle-aged” when she was born _______ her DNA came from a middle-aged “mother”. ________ your grandmother would mean a new baby started life as an _____ lady! XQ: Really? I ______ thought of that. RB:

And it ________ the species. Cloning means that there’s _____ variety in the species. So the animals may not be able

to ______ a particular illness and they might _____ out. XQ:

Oh dear! And that was just what you and I were trying to ______. In spite of all these, don’t you think scientists would still be able to ____ the problems?

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Suggested answer: Cruel

wonderful

pets

276

successfully

cells

born reasonable

new

better

unnatural

when

why

against

need

benefits

illnesses

methods

end

because

Cloning

old

never

weakens

less

resist

die

avoid

solve 3.Listen to the conversation again and then work with a partner to fill in the table. Rachel’s ideas about cloning

Xiao Qing’s ideas about cloning

Suggested answer: Rachel’s ideas

1. cruel to animals

2. makes the animals do unnatrual things 3. It is a “dead end”

4. weakens the species Xiao Qing’s ideas

1.scientists are doing a wonderful job 2. may bring people’s favorite pets back to life

3. problems because it is a new science

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4. it may provide cures for serious illnesses Step Ⅲ

speaking task(page 17) 1. T: Let’s come to speaking. Whose idea do you agree with? Get ready to have a class discussion. Think about the reasons for your point of view. Use your own ideas as well as those in the text. You can refer to the expressions as following. That’s a good idea.

I cannot accept your argument because…

I support… because…

No, I can’t agree with… because…

I agree with…because….

How can you believe that? Your argument has convinced me because…

I would like to agree with you but…

I don’t care for your ideas because…

No, that is not reasonable because….

Your ideas sound very encouraging to me. 2. T: Well, you can divide yourselves into many groups as freely as you can, then have a class discussion. After discussion, ask some groups to tell them ideas, one group gives one view and states the reasons about it. G1: I agree with animals cloning. Reason: I think we must be safe so

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animals are needed to test things first. G2: I agree with Xiao. Reason: we won’t know if cloning is safe for humans unless we try it on animals first. G3: I don’t accept Xiao. Reason: if we make animals live unnatural lives and do unnatural things, then it won’t be good for them or us. G4: xiao’s arguments have convinced me. Reason: cloning can help cure scrious illnesses in humans.

G5: I would like to agree with Rachel.

Reason: Weakens the species.

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3. Summing up.

Give students a few minutes to consider whether there are more advantages than its disadvantages or not. The teacher should

encourage them to express it bravely, then make a summing up.

Summing up:

As the coin has two sides. Every technology can bring the advantages to our society, and also can bring the negative effects to our human beings. So when we judge a new technology good or not good, we should look at whether there are more advantages than its disadvantages or not. if we use it in a proper way, it can benefit our human beings a lot. Step

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Homework

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Homework: T: Boys and girls, today we have listened to some materials about Is cloning cruel? And talk about the opinions about them. Besides, please review them. Now write a short passage about what we should do while facing cloning.

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