Science versus Nature教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì)
2. cure disease like cancer 2. create more disease in the animal world
3. help those who are unable to have children 3. cloning shows no respect for human life
4. help those who want to clone their dead children 4. human life would no longer be unique
5. we should be having fewer babies in order to reduce earth’s population, not cloning more
2. do you think it would be easy for the cloned baby to accept his/ her social identity as a ‘cloned’ human being?
3. what would the person that had the original cell feel about the cloned baby?
4. think about the relationship between the title of the unit science versus nature and cloning technology.
step7 homework
think about the difficult scientific terms underlined before up on the text learning
reading (2)—language points
1. a recent announcement by scientists that they have successfully cloned the first human embryo…
announcement (n.) 宣告，通知，聲明
(短語(yǔ))make/ issue an announcement 發(fā)表聲明
announce（vt.）宣告，通知，聲明
(短語(yǔ)) announce sth. to sb. (不能用announce sb. sth.)
(比較) announce/ declare
announce 指對(duì)公眾或特定的一群關(guān)心的人進(jìn)行宣布；declare指官方的正式宣告
everyone was silent as he announced the winner of the competition.
this powerful country declared war on that small country.
2. on the one hand, some scientists point out that if you clone an embryo, you can …
①on (the) one hand…on the other hand…一方面…另一方面…（單獨(dú)使用on the other hand時(shí)，hand不能省略，但與on the one hand連用時(shí)，可省略）
on one hand, rapid development of the economy will improve the living conditions of the people. on the other hand, it will speed up environmental destruction.
(短語(yǔ)) at hand 在手邊，在附近 by hand 親手，手工
in hand 手頭現(xiàn)有的，正在進(jìn)行，在處理中
hand in hand手拉手
hands off! 請(qǐng)勿動(dòng)手！不許干涉 hands up! 舉起手來(lái)！
②point out 指出 he pointed out my mistake. 他指出我的錯(cuò)誤。
point to/point at 指著，指向某人或某物（兩個(gè)詞組可互換使用）he pointed at/ to a picture.
point at 對(duì)準(zhǔn)，瞄準(zhǔn)(某人用槍對(duì)準(zhǔn)某人某物等)
they pointed at her head but she was not afraid.
point to 表明，指向(主語(yǔ)為證據(jù)、時(shí)針以及賓語(yǔ)為某一方向時(shí))
the evidence points to him as the criminal.