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A Teaching Design for Book8 Unit2 Cloning

Using language ǁ: Listening, speaking and writing

西安市田家炳中学 李亚俊

Design concept:

According to New English Curriculum Standards, we should develop students’ ability of autonomous learning and cooperative learning. Meanwhile, we should also improve students’ ability of getting information and develop their comprehensive language competence and positive attitudes. In this design, there are living environments to help students to apply their knowledge to practice and all the activities are centered on the students; besides, the activities are set from easy to difficult, and they are suitable for students of different levels. It is aimed to make the students learn happily, experience the happiness of success and improve their abilities of listening, speaking and writing.

Analysis of the teaching material The teaching content is from New Senior English For China Module 8, Unit 2 Cloning. This is the sixth period of this unit, which is about the listening, speaking and writing. This unit is about cloning. From learning this period, the students can apply what they have learnt to talk and write, so this period is very important in this unit teaching and learning it well is a must for the students.

Analysis of the students According to the New Standard Curriculum and the New Syllabus and the artistic appreciation, students in grade two are supposed to learn to be independent and cooperative in learning; besides they should learn to find out questions, analyze questions and work out questions in English; meanwhile they are requested to form the habit of thinking in English. My students have adapted to my teaching methods, they are able to deal with some easy questions, so in this period, I want to help them to catch some information through listening independently, discuss together and solve difficult questions by teamwork.

Teaching objectives

By the end of this class, the majority of the students will be able to reach these aims. 1.

Knowledge aim:

Make sentences with the phrases which are used to show our agreement and disagreement. 2. Ability aims: 1) Catch the main idea and some key sentences through listening to a dialogue. 2) Express their opinions in English freely and talk about their attitude towards cloning human.

3) Write a debate report on whether we should clone human. 3. Emotional aims: 1) Think deeply about the advantages and disadvantages of cloning. 2) Be willing to cooperate with classmates and teachers to solve difficult questions.

Teaching important and difficult points:

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To enable the students to express their ideas in English;

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To enable the students to write a debate report logically; 3.

To improve their listening, speaking and writing abilities; Teaching concepts

Teaching serves students, so all the activities are centered on students. In the class, the teacher is a guide and helper. Because each student has his own strengths and weaknesses, and they may not at the same English level, the teacher set questions of different levels to make every student feel the happiness of development and help them to experience success.

Teaching strategies According to the Key Competence, the purpose of teaching English is to improve their abilities of language learning, develop their spirit of teamwork, and help them to learn by themselves. So in this period, all the activities are for the students, and the teacher should communicate with students, observe their emotions and make proper adjustment in the class.

Teaching environment English class is the only time when students can practice listening and spoken English, so in the class the students and teachers will mainly use English to learn and communicate. Of course, if the students have difficulty in understanding, the teacher will translate them into English to help them cooperate well.

Teaching and Learning Methods: Task-based language teaching and learning Communicative Approach

Discussion Teaching aids: A computer, PPT, chalk, blackboard

Teaching Procedures

Step1: Revision and lead in

What do we talk about in Unit 2? What does cloning mean? Ok, today we will continue learning something about cloning. First I’d like you to know about our learning aims today. Then know about our tasks today. Learning goalsTo master the phrases used to show our agreement and disagreement.To improve our listening skills by listening to a dialogue.To improve our speaking and writing skills by discussing and writing a debate report.To think deeply about the advantages and disadvantages of cloning.

Today's TasksTask 1A game --wake up your “ears” and get ready to listen.Task 2 Listening--listen to a dialogue and do some related exercises.Task 3 Speaking--discuss with your partner whether we should clone human.Task 4. Writing—write a debate report.

Design purpose:

Enable the students to be clear about their aims and tasks in the class and be fully prepared for the class activities.

Step 2: Listening Before listening: Activity 1: Play a game Ask students to do after what the teacher say.

Design purpose: Make the students realize when listening, they should concentrate on listening but not disturbed by others.

Activity2: New words Ask students to match the words with their meanings and read them fluently. Task 2 ListeningPre-listeningMatchthe words with the right translations.cruel 动物，生物reasonable 赞成creature 残酷的，残忍的approve of 合情理的unnatural 变弱weaken不自然的

Design purpose: To help students deal with the new words in the listening part and clean up the barrier to listening.

Activity 3: skimming the questions Look through the questions in listening part, and predict what’s the listening material is about.

Design purpose: To make the students know about their tasks in listening, in which case the students will be more prepared for the needed information.

While listening

Lead the students to form the habit of grasping the important words and making notes when listening. For the first time, the students should do Exercise 1 to catch the main idea and Exercise2 to tick the sentences they have heard. For the second time, the students should get the two speakers main ideas towards cloning and try to check their answers.

Design purpose: From these two exercise to find and practice the skills in listening.

After listening Read the listening material to catch more details and know it better.

Design purpose: Make the students be clearer of the listening material and pay attention to the sentence patterns used to express one’s ideas, which can make the students be prepared to do the debate.

Step 3. Speaking

Activity 1. Discussion (group work) Now what’s your idea towards cloning human? Are you for or against it? Discuss with your partners with these sentence patterns. Sentence patterns（句型）:In my opinion/Personally speaking/表达观点：赞成:反对:As far as I’m concerned…That’s a good / great idea.I agree with / support / am in favor of … because…Your argument has convinced me because…Your ideas sound very encouraging to me.I can’t accept your argument because…I would like to agree with you but…No, I disagree with /am against / object to … because…I don’t care for your ideas because…No, that’s not reasonable because…Design purpose:

Give some sentence patterns to help students express their ideas, and the discussion is a preparation for the debate and the debate report. Activity 2. Debate

Have a debate in the class over whether we should clone human. Design purpose: The debate offers a good chance for the students to practice their speaking ability, and it is a good preparation for the writing..

Step 4. Writing Now we have to write a report of our debate. What kind of passage is it? What is the structure of it?

The framework(框架) of an argumentative composition1. (Para. 1) Introduce the topic.2. ( Para.2-3 ) Body (introduce the opposite opinions and reasons)3. ( Para.4 ) Personal opinion / Conclusion

Then think of some possible sentence patterns that can be used in each paragraph. Possible sentence patterns or phrases(Para. 1) Introduce the topic.Recentlywe have held a heated discussion/ debateabout whether... ,on which our opinions are divided.Possible sentence patterns or phrases in part 2Agreement : Some are in favor ofthat.The majority of the students are forit.Most of them support/ think highly ofit.Here are the reasons. First, second, third…Disagreement: On the contrary,Others are against it.On the other hand,some havea different / opposite view.However,others object to that idea.Their reasons are as follows. In the first place... What’s more... In addition...

Possible sentence patterns or phrases in part 3( para.4 ) conclusionSummary / Your own opinion.In a word, In my opinion，Personally，As far as I am concerned….Every coin has two sides.Be beneficial to, take advantage of, set a limit to, properly

Next give the students time to write their report. (Ask two students to write on the blackboard) Then check the composition together, and give students an evaluation list. 

If the structure is clear. 

If there is a topic sentence in each paragraph. 

If the ideas are organized logically with suitable transitional words. 

If the advanced expressions are used properly and vividly. 

If your handwriting is neat and easy to read. Finally ask some volunteers to show their compositions and enjoy them together. Design purpose: Giving students supporting language can help them write logically; offering an evaluation list can give students a standard to check their articles. In this way students cooperated to finish the significant task and learn from each other. Meanwhile, they experience the joy of working together and success.

Step 5. Summary Ask the student on duty to make a summary of this lesson, and the teacher makes a summary of the class. The clone itself is innocent.The key is that we should apply the technology properly and make it beneficial to human beings.innocent/‘inəsnt/adj.清白的, 无辜的

Design purpose: From making a summary, students reflected on their learning in this

class, which will have a good influence on their future learning. Besides, the teacher’s summary helps the students set a right attitude towards human cloning, which is a consolidation and sublimation to the topic of cloning.

Step 6. Homework Polish your writing and rewrite it on your homework.

Step 7. Reflection after class From this class, the students learnt some skills about listening, such as: how to catch the main idea and make shorthand during listening; they had a deep thought about whether we should clone human; knew how to write a debate report. The majority of the students were able to write a quite good debate report in the class, but some still needed to improve their writing skills. On the whole, it has reached the teaching aims.