牛津高中英语模块五

牛津高中英语模块五

Unit 3 Science versus nature

Reading –The Perfect Copy(1)教学设计与思考

Ⅰ.Teaching Aims and Demands

A. Knowledge

1.Enable the students to get some information about cloning.

2.Enable the students to learn some different opinions on cloning.

3.Help the students to learn how to understand scientific terms and analyze the passage according to the reading strategy.

B. Feelings and Attitudes

1.Get the students to form the right attitudes towards the advanced technologies.

2.We should make good use of the advanced technologies to make our life better and better.

C. Ability

1.Develop the students’ cooperation spirit.

2.Let students get some reading skills about scientific articles.

Ⅱ.Teaching importances and difficulties.

1.Talk about cloning and human cloning.

2.How to describe the advantages and disadvantages of human cloning.

Ⅲ.Teaching procedures and ways

Step1 Lead-in

1 Ask the students to share the information collected about cloning before class.

2 Brief introduction about cloning and the fierce debates between scientists.

(设计目的与意义：让学生对克隆技术有一个大概的了解，培养学生搜集资料、处理信息的能力。同时，通过图片、视频等方式简单介绍背景信息，活跃课堂气氛，并快速进入课堂主题。)

Step2 Fast reading

1 Read the passage fast and answer the following questions.

1) Does the article give an anti- or pro-cloning point of view, or both? (Both)

2) What was the name of the first cloned mammal? (Dolly)

2 Read the first and the last paragraphs to answer the following questions .

1) What’s the first paragraph about?

2) What’s the last paragraph about?

3) What’s the passage about?

Keys:!)Scientists’ success in cloning caused much debate.

2)China’s achievements on cloning.3)Different opinions about cloning.

(设计目的与意义：培养学生快速把握文章脉络，理解文章大意，提高获取信息的能力以及有关阅读科技类文章的技巧。)

Step3 Careful reading

1 Read the passage carefully and decide which of the following statements are Tor F.

1) People all over the world are happy about the idea of cloning human beings.

2)Dolly is exactly the same as other sheep.

3) A Scottish doctor created Dolly.

Colin For1 challenge morality 2 change her life)

(设计目的与意义：培养学生深入理解文章、如何清楚的表达观点。同时对其进行必要的情感教育，使其对前沿的高端技术有一个正确的认识。)

4 Ask the students to read the passage again and answer the following questions to check their understanding of the passage.

1 What are the different attitudes towards the success of human cell?

2 What does Ian Wilmut intend to use cloning for?

(Keys:11)Valuable tissues and organs and organs can be produced to save human lives. Human beings may be on the way to producing a real-life monster. Some people consider that cloning human embryos with the intention to destroy them shows no respect for human life.

2)He thinks research efforts should be concentrated on creating new tissues and organs that could eventually be used to cure diseases like cancer.)

(设计目的与意义：让学生进一步理解文章，使学生从中有所感悟，引发对如何利用克隆技术的深层思考。)

Step4 Post-reading

1 Fill in the blanks according to the passage.

Cloning is producing an exact copy of a plant or an animal using it’s cells. However, human cloning has caused much___1____ .On the one hand ,it is a scientific _____2______. On the other hand, some people think it shows no____3____ for humans.

Generally speaking, cloning something that can _____4____ mankind is acceptable.

Keys:1debate 2breakthrough 3respect 4benefit

(设计目的与意义：让学生对文章有一个整体的把握，并为下面的讨论作准备。)

2 Work in groups to discuss the following question:

Do you think it would be a good idea to clone human beings some day? Why or why not?

3 Present their results and sum up.

(设计目的与意义：让学生拥有更多的谈话交流的机会，提高学生用英语表达观点的能力。通过小组合作学习，他们相互启发、共同构思、畅所欲言，充分调动不同层次学生的积极性，活跃课堂气氛，并能加深对高端技术的正确认识。)

Step5 Homework

Write a short passage on cloning.

1 advantages

2 disadvantages

3 the best way to develop/use cloning

(设计目的与意义：在讨论的基础上，将自己的观点由口头落实到笔头，对输出进一步强化，培养学生遣词造句、谋篇布局等综合运用语言的能力。)

教学反思

本节课是一堂全校性的公开课，由全校所有的教师参加，因此，学生显得稍有些紧张，但总体效果还不错，具体情况如下：

一成功之处

1 重过程，重体验，重实践

本课依据新课程标准，采用了任务教学策略。在教学过程中，重过程，重体验，重实