1、Cloning Teaching Procedures Step 1 Lead-inHow did“I”How did“I”become“us”?become“us”?Step 1 Lead-in By cloning By cloning.How did“I”become“us”?How did“I”become“us”?Three passages related to human cloningTeaching Content Ability aim：To strengthen the students reading skills Knowledge aim:To learn some
2、 expressions about human cloning Affective aims:To know about the development and different voices on human cloning;Teaching AimsStep 2 Passage 1 A.Because he falls behind others in his study.B.To study science at school.C.As a seventh grade student,he needs one.D.Because he wants to improve his gra
3、des.Passage 1Passage 1To make up for the gradesSkill:Find the closest informationimproveReading Tasks1.Why does Will place an order for a science project?(1)2.Put the events below in the order of time _ A.Twoie performs quite well at school instead of Will.B.The two scientists mistake Will as a clon
4、e and kidnap him.C.Will knows that Twoie will die soon because he is a clone.D.Will clones himself called Twoie.E.Will keeps failing his classes.Passage 1Passage 1E D A C BE D A C BTry to find the key verbs of eachsentenceStep 3 Passage 2Step 3 Passage 21.Choose two sentences to fill in the blanks.P
5、ara.1 Para.2 D.Since the dead one would be fondly remembered,would not the parents expect the copy to be the same?B.What if the copy of Einstein shows no interest in science?Or the baseball player turns to acting?Passage 2Passage 2SKILL:Pay attention to the context and the main idea of each paragrap
6、h 2.The underlined part the difficulty in Paragraph 1 refers to(2)Acloning a baby is difficultBits difficult to give birth to a new babyCthe dead child cant come back again Dthe cloned baby cant replace the lost childPassage 2Passage 2,forSKILL:Do remember to find information from the sentence where
7、 the phrase lies first.If not,then the context.3.Whats the authors attitude toward cloning a child for parents?(1)A.Supportive B.Opposed C.Indifferent D.Objective SKILL:Try to find words such as “I”“my”“we”“our”first.I suggest rejectPassage 2Passage 2Step 4 Passage 3Step 4 Passage 3Reading TasksPass
8、age 3Passage 31.Whats the main idea of the passage?A.The success of the cloning humans B.The opposition to cloning humans C.Failure of cloning humans D.First cloned humansreact with strong opposition toThey are opposed to;harmSKILL:the first paragraph or the last paragraphPassage 3Passage 32.Why is
9、Dr.Antinori mentioned by the newspaper?(1)A.Because his patient is pregnant.B.Because he is a specialist on cloning.C.Because he is on the way of cloning the first human baby.D.Because he is rejected strongly by the doctors worldwide.SKILL:Find the key words in the passage as soon as possible.3.Summ
10、ary(2)Passage 3Passage 3 The first human baby is _ the way of being cloned,_ causes a debate worldwide.Some are in favor of human cloning,thinking it can not only bring hope and _(enjoy)to the couples _(able)to have children,but also help to be used to create drugs for some treatments of diseases._,
11、many doctors argue that there are more disadvantages than _(benefit)in human cloning.Firstly,it can make moral relations in chaos.Whats worse,so far all cloned animals _(suffer)from serious disorders,thus _(die)soon.Therefore,they are _human cloning _.(strong)onenjoymentunableHoweverbenefitshave suf
12、fereddyingstronglywhichagainstAdvantagesDisadvantages1.Bringing hope and enjoyment for 2.Using it to create drugs3.Cloning organs to replace the damaged ones4.Saving endangered animals5.Increasing the production of crops1.Making moral relations in chaos2.Being taken advantage of to commit crimes3.Su
13、ffering from serious disorders and dying early4.Low success rates,thus wasting money5.Making the whole world out of controlStep 5 DiscussionStep 5 DiscussionStep 6 WritingStep 6 WritingTry to make a short passage about human cloning with the expressions above.Recently,there is a heated debate on.Dif
14、ferent people hold different opinions.Some people are in favor of,hoping that.However,others are strongly against it,arguing that.Besides,.Whats worseStep 7 HomeworkStep 7 Homework Finish the writing task.今天我们班举行了一场讨论，主题是今天我们班举行了一场讨论，主题是 “Whether we should clone humansWhether we should clone humans”,”,有的同学有的同学支持，有的同学反对，请写一篇支持，有的同学反对，请写一篇100100字左右字左右的英语文章，介绍讨论结果，的英语文章，介绍讨论结果，并发表自己并发表自己的看法的看法.
