Unit 2 Cloning
unit 2 cloningthe first period readingteaching goals教學目標1.grasp the important words and sentences patterns a. 重點詞匯和短語clone，commercial，have a great impact on ，undertake，appropriate，object，forbid，accumulate，cast down，object to，the media，in favour ofb. 重點句子it is a way of….the fact is that….the question that concerned all scientists is….2. ability goals能力目標enable the students to describe cloning: what is the advantages of cloning？ what is the problems or dangers of cloning？what is your opinion of cloning？3. learning ability goals 學能目標know the definition of the clone and help the students learn how to describe cloning.teaching important points 教學重點 grasp the main idea of each paragraph and the theme of the text teaching difficult point 教學難點help the students analyze the writing techniques of the article.teaching methods 教學方法skimming, task-based method and debate method.teaching aids 教具準備a projector and some slides. teaching procedures step i lead-in a short quize to test how much they know about cloning.show them some pictures to know the importance of the clone.arise their interest to know more knowledge about clone.step ii pre-readingquestions about clone:1. what’s the clone?answer :cloning is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant.it can be divided into natural clone and man-made clone. a natural clone is one that occurs in nature and a man-made clone is one that is procured through human intervention(介入，干預).2. are the following clones the same? if not, what is the difference?answer:no. the first two are man-made clones,the rest two are natural clonesstep iii fast reading skim the text and get the main idea of each paragraph and the theme of the text main idea :para 1 what is the cloning para 2 two major uses of cloning para 3 the birth and death of dolly para 4-5 controversy brought by dolly them :animal cloning raised arguments and scientists are not sure about its future.step iv scanning 1. tasks para 1 : 1. how do gardeners clone plants?para 2: 1.what two major uses do cloning have?