Extensive Reading & Writing
Teaching Goals:
1.Activate the Ss to show their opinions about the cloning
2. Enable the Ss to write and article on this debate.
Target Language:
Debate, issue, competition, in charge, topic, argument, reply to , summarize, profitable, donate, existence, embryo, justified, transfer, ethically
I suggest that medical cloning is very important of curing serious illnesses that at present have no cure.
I would like to suggest that medical cloning is not as simple as issue as my colleague claims.
Teaching important & difficult points:
How to organize the debating materials
How to write a short composition of the debate
How to write a report
reaction to a book or an articleTeaching methods
Task-based teaching method
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector
Step1.Revision
1.Greetings
2.Check the homework and ask the Ss to speak out their opinion about the medical cloning
Step 2 Reading (page 15)
Read the passage and answer the questions
1.Why shouldn’t you clone an extinct animal unless there is enough diversity in the group? There will not be enough genetic variation in the group to be able to resist new illnesses.
2.Why is it wrong to clone an extinct animal if it would have to live in a zoo? It is not a good idea to clone an animal that would have to live in a zoo because it is not a suitable habitat to develop and increase its numbers. The zoo is not a natural environment for a wild animal.
3.Why can’t you clone the DNA of animals that have been extinct longer than 10,000 years? The DNA of animal more than 10,000 years old is not suitable for cloning, for it can’t survive so long.
Reading carefully and finish discussing Exercises 2, 3 and 4. (Numerous answers are possible.)
Step 3 Reading task
Ask Ss turn to page 58 and assign today’s work--- debate. Firstly ask them their opinion about debate, whether they’ve seen any TV debate.
(College student’s debate, one chairman or two, four members each group)
Ask the Ss to read the debate rules and then a set of questions:
What is the definition of debate?
A debate is an activity in which students can discuss two sides of an issue. There is a chairperson to charge i .
Tell me the process of a debate in your own words
The leading debater who supports the topic speaks first, then another one who disagrees with the topic speaks, then other people take turns to give a free discussion. Towards the end of the debate, the last speaker of each side will summarize the arguments that have be
en made to support their point to view.
In our textbook there is an example of debate, read the topic carefully and discuss the questions with your partner. And I will divide you into two teams. One side agrees with the medical cloning and the other side is against the medical cloning.

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