大学英语精读第十单元

Unit 10 Medical Ethics

Language Goals:

1.get to know some useful information concerning the topic of the reading passages in this unit and to know more about English culture;

2.do some preparation activities such as discussion, group work, etc. to practice their spoken skill and communicative skills;

3.grasp some new words and try to use these words which help them to enrich their vocabulary;

4.read the in-class reading passage in a limited time and grasp some expressions and grammatical points in the in-class reading passage to improve their reading comprehension;

5.do some post-reading exercises and some after-class reading to practice what they have got to know in class to improve their English comprehensive skills.

6.translate some typical sentences into Chinese or English by using some expressions learned in the reading passages to acquire some translating skills and better their translating abilities.

7. Make the students get familiar with the social problems.

8.Arouse the students’ interest in learning new knowledge.

Language Focal and Difficult Points:

1. Key words and phrases

verbs:advocate complicate dedicate evaporate inject overlap sway reproduce eradicate clone disgust gauge

nouns: euthanasia parliament license investigation ravage adoption fertilization layer offspring lung commentary carrier

adjectives and adverbs: humane involuntary overseas scant monk alert hereditary worthless

phases: add to appeal to attend to

as a result of dedicate to all but

break in bring up cover for

side effect speak up thanks to

dispose of make sense seek out

at risk live with outside of

Teaching Approaches:

It’s student-centered, based on the content, meaning and interest. Ways of lecturing, discussing, dictating, questioning and interacting are applied to achieve the most understanding of the text intended, text relating, peer feedback in writing, open questions for words and phrases. Teaching contents:

In-class reading: A License to Kill

After-class reading: Required Course: Beside Manner 101

Human Cloning, Don’t Just say No!

How the Gene Test Can Affect Your Insurance

Unit10, Book Four, New College English

Teaching procedures:

1.Period 1-2: 1)Preparation for the topic “Medical Ethics”

2) Listening practice and pre-reading activities

2. Period 3-4: Intensive study and exercises

3. Period 5-6: 1) Reading skill training and reading comprehension

2) Further development

3) Dictation of the words and phrases

4) Interactive activities by pair work, group-discussion

5) D ebate on “Medical Ethics”

Lecture notes:

I.Summary of the text

Here is a thorough discussion about “euthanasia” practice in Holland and gives an introduction to the “palliative care”. Holland is the only country that allows assisted suicide and euthanasia in the world. To guide the actions in ending someone’s life, the government issued strict guidelines for people to follow. The purpose was to empower the patients suffering from disease but it come out to be empowered to the doctors as