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Extensive Reading & Writing Teaching Goals:

1.Activate the Ss to show their opinions about the cloning 2. Enable the Ss to write an article on this debate.

Teaching important & difficult points: How to organize the debating materials

How to write a short composition of the debate Teaching methods

Task-based teaching method

Teaching aids

A computer and a projector Teaching procedures: Step1.Warming up 1.

Greetings 2.

See a short movie about the

Jurassic Park

Step 2 Reading

Task one: Listen to the text , then choose the correct answer. The writer of the text_____

A. is excited by the possibility of cloning fierce and extinct animals

B. believes that extinct animals can be brought back to life by cloning C. thinks it impossible or unsuitable to clone extinct animals like dinosaurs

D. dreams of dinosaurs returning to the earth Task two: Fast reading( True or False) 1.

Scientists are still experimenting with cloning mammals because they think it can make money. 2.

The animals that have disappeared from the earth, like dinosaurs, can be brought back to life through cloning. 3.

If we can clone any extinct animals, we should let them live in a zoo.

Task three: Careful reading Give some reasons why it is either impossible or unsuitable to clone dinosaurs. Step 3

Discussion These animals are extinct ones. Which one should be brought back to life?

And why? Discuss with your partner. The example on the textbook might help you. Step 4 Writing Imagine that you are the winner of the debate and you have been asked to write an article on it. Organize your writing in this way: Let’s bring the __________back to life

________ is the most suitable animal to be brought back to life. Here are the reasons：

Firstly,_______________________________________

Secondly, __________________________________________ Finally, _____________________________________________

So I think _____________ would be the best choice to be brought back to life. Step 5 Summary 1. Use your own words to explain the reasons why the dinosaurs can’t be cloned successfully. 2. List the reasons to bring one of the four extinct animals back to life. 3. How to write a composition.

Step 6 Homework Finish the article, using the composition pattern we have learned.