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Unit 2 Cloning Reading教案

Teaching goals 1. Target language

clone，commercial，producer，undertake，arbitrary，object，forbid，accumulate，cast down，object to，the media，in favour of It is a way of….

The fact is that….

The question that occurred is….

2. Ability goals

Enable the students to describe cloning: What is the advantages of cloning？

What is the problems or dangers of cloning？What is your opinion of cloning？

3. Learning ability goals

Help the students learn how to describe cloning. Teaching important points:

How to describe cloning. Teaching difficult point

Help the students analyze the writing techniques of the article. Teaching methods:

Skimming, task-based method and debate method. Teaching aids:

a projector and some slides.

Teaching procedures

Step I Lead-in T: You can imagine how rapidly the modern science and technology develop. I think most of you must know something about space traveling, submarine exploration, robot, maglev train, gene engineering etc. But in recent years, a hot topic, cloning is often mentioned, especially when the cloning Dolly the sheep appeared. You may have first heard of cloning when Dolly the Sheep showed up on the scene in 1997. Cloning technologies have been around for much longer than Dolly, though. First things first, what is cloning and a clone?

1. Do you want to be cloned or not? Why? 2. If you are the judge what will you do? 3. Can you tell me the advantages of cloning? 4. And what is the disadvantage? T: Look at the pictures and discuss which ones are natural clones and which ones are man – made. Then explain how they differ. Step II Pre-reading Before class, ask the students to search for some information about this topic. Now show your questions on the screen, and then let them discuss with each other. T: Now please work in pairs and discuss about cloning. Then list the questions you want to find out. Share your list with your partner.

Ss: Yes, sir / madam. Questions about cloning: 1. What is a clone? 2. How is a clone produced? 3. What benefits can humans gain from cloning? 4. What problems may arise when humans are cloned? 5. Should we clone human? 6. Could cloning replace sex as the means of creating new human life? 7. Could a parent clone a child who is dying of a terminal illness? Step III While- reading Get the students to comprehend the passage quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students form a good habit of reading. T: Have you not the answers of your questions? Now please skim the passage fast to obtain a general understanding of the whole passage into several parts and find out the main idea of each part. Show the following. Para. 1 Cloning is a way of making an exact copy of another animal and plant. Para. 2 Cloning has two major uses. Para. 3 The problems of Dolly. Para. 4 The effect of Dolly. Para. 5 It is forbidden to clone human being. Step IV Post-reading Ask the students to read the passage again to finish three tasks. What are the problems or dangers of cloning? And what are the advantages of cloning? What is the writer’s opinion?

What do you think is the writer’s point of view in this reading passage? Is it in favour of cloning or against is?

What is your opinion of cloning? Give the reasons. Step V Homework Ask the students to do the following. 1. Complete the exercises on page 13. 2. Recite the key sentences in the text. 3. What is Cloning? You might not believe it, but there are human clones among us right now. Have you ever wished you could have a clone of yourself to do homework while you hit the skate park or went out with your friends? Imagine if you could really do that. Where would you start?