教学三维目标
2009-5-22
Unit 2 Reading Cloning :Where Is It Leading Us ? A.Teaching goals 1. knowledge and skills
1Teach and learn
a. Key words and expressions:
clone, commercial, producer, undertake, arbitrary, object, forbid, accumulate, cast down, object to,
the media, in favour of ,be bound to,
b. Key drills: It is a way of The fact is that...The question that occurred ...
c. Grammar rules : Noun Clauses: Apposotive Clauses
1) Practise and improve : reading speaking listening and writing skills. 2. Methods and processes
Read ,listen and speak.Let students know what a clone is .and what advantages and disadvantages a
clone has by while creating some useful situations. Enable the students to describe cloning and discuss
some problems. What is the advantages of cloning? What is the problems or dangers of cloning?
What is your opinion of cloning?Use a recorder and media projector and slides. 3. Emotion attitudes and value
Let students know What a clone is and what advantages and disadvantages a clone has by
listening reading and speaking while creating some useful situations. Enable the students to describe
cloning and discuss some problems with it.
Enable students to learn more about the knowledge of
cloning, and then realize that applies to the medical aspects of cloning, such as the benefit of mankind.
Awareness against the evil with the cloning, and then allow students to establish a correct concept of
cloning. Efforts to stimulate students to learn scientific knowledge, with the knowledge to correct world
outlook, outlook on life serving the people, serve the society.
B.Teaching important points How to describe cloning.
C.Teaching difficult points Help the students analyze the writing techniques of the article.
D.Teaching methods
E.Teaching aids A recorder, a projector and some nice giftsI bought before the class. Skimming, task-based method and debate method.
F.Teaching procedures & ways
Step I. Lead-in
Listen to the song: Mum Is The Best In The World.Then ask :What do you think of from the
song?Probably students can say,“We have to have a mother and her love”.
T:Yes.But an animal had not a mother,she was poor and unlucky,Do you know who she was and what
Happened to her ?Now this class let’s learn Unit 2 Cloning Reading What Is It Leading
Us.After that You can know more about Dolly the sheep. Step . 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?
After a few minutes.
T: Do you have other questions? Volunteer!
S: I have! What is the writer’s opinion?
T: Good job! I think many of you have questions, now let us read the article with the questions.
Suggest answers:
1. It is a way of making an exact copy of another animal and plant.
2. This happens in plants when gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones, and
when small parts of a plant are taken and gown in a laboratory. It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance are produced from the same original egg.
3. It can help cure disease and can help couples who have no baby to bear a new baby. 4. There may be more bad people like Hitler.
5. In my opinion, I do not agree, for it may cause many moral problems.
6. No. Because cloned human has the same quality as the real human, natural born baby’s quality is
higher than his parents.
7. No. The cloned baby also has the disease.
Step 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 got the answers of your questions? Now please skim the passage fast to obtain a general understanding of the whole passage. While reading, divide 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 Post-reading
Ask the students to read the passage again to finish three tasks.
T: Now let’s listen to the tape. While listening, pay more attention to the correct pronunciation and tone. Then read the text by yourselves to get the answers to the three tasks. You can work in groups.
T: First, what are the problems or dangers of cloning?
S: Let me have a try! First, the cloned animals have the same illness of the old animals and the same goes with the other species. Second, the cloned animals have short life and can cause moral questions. T: You are right! And what are the advantages of cloning?
S: I know! Firstly, gardeners use it all the time to produce commercial quantities of plants. Secondly, it is valuable for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. Thirdly, it suddenly opens everyone’s eyes to the possibility of using cloning to cure serious illnesses, and even
producing human beings.
T: 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 it?
S1: I think the writer is in favour of it, because there are many advantages of cloning. It can help people solve many problems in our daily life.
S2: I think the writer doesn’t agree with it, because if the cloning technology can be used in an evil way,
it can cause much trouble to our society.
T: The next question: What is your opinion of cloning? Give the reasons.
S1: As a coin has two sides, everything has two aspects. First, if the cloning is used in a correct way it can bring many conveniences to us. Such as: curing serious illnesses and being used to produce commercial qualities of plants. On the other hand, if the cloning is used in an evil way it can cause much troubles: such as moral questions.
S2: My view on cloning and nuclear transfer is that it is ethical. So actually I find no reason to clone presently. I have this opinion currently, because scientists are unable to successfully clone using nuclear transfer as of today.
S3: I also have a problem with the possible effects of using nuclear transfer on a large scale. This is because I fear that cloning could greatly reduce genetic diversity. I believe if we were to interfere with the genetic diversity of an entire population we would undoubtedly fail.
S4: As you can see I believe cloning using nuclear transfer should not be used on humans for any reason. I think if we were to use cloning it should be closely monitored as to what dangers are involved in having copies of people. I also think this technology should not be used until success. S5: I agree that we should develop cloning. I’m not afraid of cloning Hitlers or excited to clone
Einsteins. I would say the time and the environment produced Hitler, not his DNA. So you do not need DNA from Hitler to produce a Hitler. In fact, there are Nazis already present. We should make use of cloning to benefit future generations. You can imagine that how happy the people are if they can recover from the serious illness or get back the son who has just lost his life in an accident by cloning. T: Good job! Yes, if we our human beings use the scientific technology properly it can bring many advantages to us!
S: Why did Dolly’s appearance raise a storm of objections and have a great impact on the media and
public imagination?
T: Because nothing really prepared the world for the 1997 announcement that a group of Scottish scientists had created a cloned sheep named Dolly. Many folks believe that within the next decade, we
will hear a more shocking announcement of the first cloned human. Scientists in South Korea have
already created human embryonic stem cells through cloning. Until now, the idea of human cloning has
only been possible through movie magic, but the natural progression of science is making human
cloning a true possibility. We’ve cloned sheep, mice and cows, so why not humans? Some countries
have set up laws banning cloning, but it is still legal in many countries. Imagine using a piece of your
great-grandmother’s DNA to create a clone of her. In a sense, you could be the parent of your
great-grandmother. This opens the door to many ethical problems, but it’s a door that could soon be
opened.
S: So what happens next?
T: Whatever the reasons, the new cloning technologies have sparked many ethical debates among
scientists, politicians and the general public. Several governments have considered or enacted
legislation to slow down, limit or ban cloning experiments outright. It is clear that cloning will be a
part of our lives in the future, but the course of this technology has yet to be determined. Cloning
could cause birth defects, but it’s not going to change society. In the absence of any legislation or
regulation, cloning attempts will quietly continue. Eventually, cloning will succeed (if it hasn’t
happened already), and humankind will have taken another step down the road of biological
engineering. You young students are the future of the world. You should study hard today, and you
will be able to face this difficult problem and know how to deal with it
Step Language points
Language points
1.identical
be identical with
2.cast down
3.be appropriate to
4.raise v.
5.a storm of
6.have/make a stong/great impact on
7.forbid doing/sb. To do sth.
8.accumulate
9.evidence un.
10. be bound to do
Step Grammar
()
The fact isthat these are both
examples of natural clones.
The factthat she seemed to develop
normallywas very encouraging.
Then came the disturbing newsthat
Dolly had become seriously ill.
However, scientists still wonder
whether cloning will help or harm us
and where itis leading us.
Step Practice for language points and grammar rules (two exercises)
Ste Summary
1. The usages of the words and expressions.
2. The usages of the grammar rules.
3. The content of the text on cloning and what we should think of about it and what we will
do with it in the future.
SteHomework
Ask the students to do the following.
1. Complete the exercises on page 13.
2. Retell the procedure of coning Dolly the sheep.
3. Write an English passage on wheather human beings can be allowed to clone.
Key words and expressions are on the left.Key drills are on the right.In the middle
are some beautiful .
With the help of the multipmedia I have finished the teaching tasks in the period
smoothly, based on. In the coure of teaching I used many different
kinds of teaching metheds and got a satisfying result.But after class I have got to
know some other different opinions on it.Here is what I have thought of from the clas
I gave the other day:
1. Students’ interest and concentration were attacted better . 2.I made the class more lively and interesting by using amusing body languages ,
funny facial expressions and giving pretty gifts.
3.The whole design of the class is reasonable , scientific and easily operates.
4.The whole class was given with the new teaching concept and theroy,especially
appropriately to.
5.I made enough use of the multimedia to abtain a better achievement in the class
although the English base of the students is the worst in Grade ?.(after class
I knew it)
6.All the tasks in this class were completed better for the students have learned
the knowledge such as the words ,expressions ,drills and grammar rules.meanwhile
they have practised improving their listening ,reading, speaking and writing
skills.
1. It’s a pity that something was wrong with the computer equipment for sound
system,so I had to canle the using of playingthe two songs.
2.The major free debate could not be practised enough .
According to this class,I’ll learn more from other better teachers modestly and
carefully and try my best to do more research onto students ,textbooks, new teaching
theroies and methods so as to improve mine from now on .I love students and teaching
English.In fact I fell in love with teaching English around 20 years ago.I’m sure
I’ll carry on the career continuously till forever,Iam bound to help more students
make more achievements in their English study in the future.