Using LanguageⅡ教案设计（一等奖）

Teaching plan

Unit 2 Cloning The second period

Listening and Speaking Teaching Goals:

1.Let the Ss focus on the different attitude towards cloning technology 2. Teach Ss how to get specific information.

Target Language:

Cloning, attitude, medicine, organ I agree with …

How would you do…?

Do you think …?

Key Teaching Points

Listen to the materials about cloning and choose the correct answers. Teaching Difficult points: Work together with partners and show their own opinions Teaching methods

Listening and cooperative learning Teaching aids

A tape recorder Step1.Revision

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Greetings 2.

Revision Step 2 Pre- listening Work in groups to discuss how we should behave towards the human clones. “Before human clones become part of our life, perhaps we should spend some time thinking about how we should behave towards them. Now, work in groups to discuss the following questions.

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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 Listening I (P17) The Ss are asked to read fast the statements before listening. Then tick those heard while listening. 1.

Cloning will bring dead pets to life.

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Cloning may produce medicine or even organs of a human body to cure serious illnesses. 4

Dolly was “middle-aged” when she was born. After checking the answers, listen again and then finish the chart in exercise 2 Mary’s ideas about cloning 1 cruel to animals 2 makes them do unnatural things 3 it is a “dead end”

4 clone born at age of “mother”

5 weakens the species

Step 4. Speaking task Xiao Qing’s ideas about cloning

1 scientists are doing a wonderful job 2 may bring back extinct animals 3 problems because it is a new science 4 scientists need encouragement 5 it may provide medicine for illnesses “In our earlier class, we learned how to organize a debate, now it’s our turn to continue the debate. The topic of our debate is “should we clone?” Now choose the team you agree with.”

Divide the whole class into four groups, two agree and two disagree. To begin this debate, I’ll give you some information about clone. You can choose what you need. During the speech, you can make notes so that you do not forget what you want to say. In our debate the person who speaks last must summarize your ideas. Here are some tips for you. Show the following 2

Center on the subject Organize main ideas that support your point of view List your own idea Make a conclusion Show the following Why should we use cloning? 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.

Homework: Get familiar with materials of listening and speaking and learn more about cloning.

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