高中英语_人教版高二英语选修八Unit2Cloning：Whereisitleadingus教学设计

Unit 2 Cloning （Module 8）Period 1 Reading: Cloning: Where is it leading usClass ： Name ： __________ Group ： No ：______ Learning Objectives:1. Learn the useful new words and expressions.2. Read the passage and learn some information about cloning. Learning Key Points:1. Grasp the important words and expressions in the reading material.2. Learn the text and master the major uses of cloning and the success and problem of cloning Dolly the sheep. Learning Difficult Points:1. Improve the reading ability.2. Learn the reading skills: scanning and skimming.Learning Procedures:I. 【Pre-class homework 】 A. Warming upThere are two kinds of clones, a natural clone and a man-made clone. Do you know what is a natural clone? And what is a man-made clone?A natural clone is one that ______________________________________________________ Man-made clone is one that ____________________________________________________B. Pre-readingBackground reading:Scottish scientists at Roslyn Institute created the much-celebrated sheep "Dolly", aroused worldwide interest and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications. She was the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA taken from an adult cell. Previously, animals had only been cloned using embryo(胚胎) cells which already have the potential to become a complete embryo in its own right. The big breakthrough with Dolly was to make a clone from an ordinary, adult cell − in this case from a female goat’s udder.Questions:1. How does Dolly differ from other sheep?She was ______________ by humans while the others were born naturally. So, Dolly was a ______________ sheep. 2. Should we clone a human?II. 【While-class 】 Step1. Lead-inStep2. Group discussion Step3．Consolidation 1. Reading____________________________________________________________________________________________________A. 做《朗声》p23. ⅣB. Read the text again and fill in the blanks.Cloning is a way of making an 1._________ (exactly) copy of another animal or plant. It has two major uses .2. ________, gardeners use it to earn profits. Secondly, it is valuable for research on new plant species and 3.________ medical research on animals. Although cloning mammals is difficult 4.__________ (undertake), the determination and patience of the scientists 5._______ (pay) off in 1996. The fact 6._______ she seemed to develop normally was very 7._____________(encourage). But she had half of the 8.________ (long ) of the original sheep, 9._________ arose scientists’concern. Up to now, cloning is still 10. ___________ (controversy).Step4．PresentationStep5．SummaryIII.【Post-class】Key:【Pre-class homework】A. Warming up:A natural clone is one that occurs in a natural form of cloning without human help.Man-made clone is one that is produced through human intervention(介入) .B. Pre-readingQuestions:1. She was cloned by humans while the others were born naturally. So, Dolly was a cloned sheep.2.In my opinion, I do not agree, for it may cause many moral problems.【While-class】1.exact2. Firstly,3. For4. to undertake. 5, paid 6,that 7. encouraging 8. length9, which 10, controversial____________________________________________________________________________________________________Period 2 Language points in Reading 1Class ： Name ： __________ Group ： No ：______ Learning Objectives:1.Learn and grasp the important useful new words and expressions.2. Learn the important useful sentences and patterns.3. Make sentences after the useful expressions. Learning Key Points:Grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions. Learning Difficult Points:Understand some difficult and long sentences.Learning Procedures:Ⅰ.【Pre-class homework 】 A. Phrases:1. 与……不同 11. 对……产生影响 2．一项难以承担的任务 12. 媒体 3．得到回报 13. 变得有争议的 4．一方面……另一方面…… 14. 打开眼界5. 令人感到不安的消息 15. 邪恶头目 6．沮丧，不愉快 16. 道德问题7. 适合于 17. 变得谨慎的8. 无法控制的命运 18. 收集证据9. 改进 19. 赞成 10. 一阵强烈的反对 20. 反对 B. Sentences(尽量用同位语从句翻译下列句子):1. 采纳新规则的建议是主席提出来的。

选修8 Unit 2 Cloning-ReadingCLONING: WHERE IS IT LEADING US?Cloning has always been with us and is here to stay. It is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant. It happens in plants 1. gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones. It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance 2. (produce) from the same original egg. The fact is 3. these are both examples of natural clones.Cloning has two major uses. Firstly, gardeners use it all the time to produce 3. ___________ (commence) quantities of plants. Secondly, it is valuable for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very complicated. It is a difficult task 4. ___________ (undertake). Many attempts to clone mammals failed. But at last the 5. ___________ (determine) and patience of the scientists paid 6. in 1996 with a ___________ (突破)- the cloning of Dolly the sheep. The procedure works like this: On the one hand, the whole 7. (science) world followed the progress of the first successful clone, Dolly the sheep. The fact that she seemed to develop normally was very 8. (encourage). Then came the disturbing news that Dolly 9. (become) seriously ill. Cloning scientists 10. (cast) down to find that Dolly's illnesses were more appropriate 11. a much older animal. Altogether Dolly lived six and a half years, half the 12. (long) of the life of the original sheep. 13. (sad) the same arbitrary fate affected other species, such as cloned mice. The questions that 14. (concern) all scientists were: "Would this be a major difficulty for all cloned animals? Would it happen forever? Could it 15. (solve) if corrections were made in their research procedure?"On the other hand, Dolly's appearance raised a storm of 16. (object) and had a great impact on the media and public imagination. It became controversial. It suddenly opened everybody's eyes to 17. possibility of using cloning to cure serious illnesses and even 18. (produce) human beings.Although at present human egg cells and embryos 19. (need) for cloning research are difficult to (获得), newspapers wrote of evil leaders hoping to clone themselves to ________ _________ ___________ (实现他们的野心). Religious leaders also raised (道德的) questions. Governments became nervous and more (保守的). Some began to reform their legal systems and 20. (forbid) research into human cloning, but other countries like China and the UK, continued to ___________ ___________ (积累证据) of the abundant medical aid that cloning could provide. However, scientists still wonder 21. ____________ cloning will help or harm us and where it is leading us.THE RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS?The possibility of cloning fierce and extinct wild animals has always excited film makers. And they are not the only ones! The 1. (popular) of films such as Jurassic Park, 2. which a scientist clones several kinds of extinct dinosaurs, proves how the idea 3. (strike) a mixture of fear and excitement 4. ________ people's hearts. But in fact we are a long way 5. being able to clone extinct animals. Scientists are still experimenting 6. cloning mammals. This is because the cloning of mammals is still a new science and its story only began seriously in the 1950s as this list shows:1950s cloning of frogs 1996 first clone of a mammal: Dolly the sheep 1970s research using the embryos of mice 2000 cow gave birth to a bison1979 work on embryos of sheep and mice 2001 China's first cloned twin calves 1981 first experimental clones of mice 2002 first cloned cats1983 first experimental clones of cows 2005 first cloned dog________ ________ _______ _______ (不时) people suggest that extinct animals like dinosaurs, can 7. (possible) be brought back to life through cloning. Unfortunately, with what we know now, this is either impossible or 8. _____________ (suit). There are many reasons.◎The (最初的) requirement is that you need perfect DNA (which gives information for how cells are to grow).◎All efforts of cloning an animal will be ______ _______ (徒劳) if there is not enough diversity in the group 9. (overcome) illnesses. Diversity in a group means 10. (have) animals with their genes arranged in different ways. The advantage is that 11. there is a new illness some of these animals may die, but others will survive and pass 12. the ability 13. (resist) that disease to the next generation. The great drawback to cloning a group of animals is that they would all have the same arrangement of genes and so might die of the same illness. Then none of them would 14. (leave) to continue the species. ◎It would be unfair to clone any extinct animals if they were to live in a zoo. A suitable habitat would be needed for them to lead a natural life.15. (base) on what we know now, you cannot clone animals that have been extinct longer than 10,000 years. Actually, dinosaurs disappeared 65,000,000years ago. So the chance of dinosaurs ever returning to the earth is (mere) a dream.选修8 Unit 2 Cloning-ReadingCLONING: WHERE IS IT LEADING US?Cloning has always been with us and is here to stay. It is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant. It happens in plants 1. when gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones. It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance 2. are produced (produce) from the same original egg. The fact is 3. that these are both examples of natural clones.Cloning has two major uses. Firstly, gardeners use it all the time to produce 3. commercial (commence) quantities of plants. Secondly, it is valuable for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very complicated. It is a difficult task 4. to undertake (undertake). Many attempts to clone mammals failed. But at last the 5.determination (determine) and patience of the scientists paid 6. off in 1996 with a breakthrough (突破)- the cloning of Dolly the sheep. The procedure works like this: On the one hand, the whole 7. scientific (science) world followed the progress of the first successful clone, Dolly the sheep. The fact that she seemed to develop normally was very 8. encouraging (encourage). Then came the disturbing news that Dolly 9. had become (become) seriously ill. Cloning scientists 10. were cast (cast) down to find that Dolly's illnesses were more appropriate 11. to a much older animal. Altogether Dolly lived six and a half years, half the 12. length (long) of the life of the original sheep. 13. Sadly (sad) the same arbitrary fate affected other species, such as cloned mice. The questions that 14. concerned (concern) all scientists were: "Would this be a major difficulty for all cloned animals? Would it happen forever? Could it 15. be solved (solve) if corrections were made in their research procedure?"On the other hand, Dolly's appearance raised a storm of 16. objections (object) and had a great impact on the media and public imagination. It became controversial. It suddenly opened everybody's eyes to 17. the possibility of using cloning to cure serious illnesses and even 18. to produce (produce) human beings.Although at present human egg cells and embryos 19. needed (need) for cloning research are difficult to obtain (获得), newspapers wrote of evil leaders hoping to clone themselves to attain their ambitions (实现他们的野心). Religious leaders also raised moral (道德的) questions. Governments became nervous and more conservative (保守的). Some began to reform their legal systems and 20. forbade (forbid) research into human cloning, but other countries like China and the UK, continued to accumulate evidence (积累证据) of the abundant medical aid that cloning could provide. However, scientists still wonder 21. whether cloning will help or harm us and where it is leading us.THE RETURN OF THE DINOSAURS?The possibility of cloning fierce and extinct wild animals has always excited film makers. And they are not the only ones! The 1. popularity (popular) of films such as Jurassic Park, 2. in which a scientist clones several kinds of extinct dinosaurs, proves how the idea 3. struck (strike) a mixture of fear and excitement 4. into people's hearts. But in fact we are a long way 5. from being able to clone extinct animals. Scientists are still experimenting 6. with cloning mammals. This is because the cloning of mammals is still a new science and its story only began seriously in the 1950s as this list shows:1950s cloning of frogs 1996 first clone of a mammal: Dolly the sheep 1970s research using the embryos of mice 2000 cow gave birth to a bison1979 work on embryos of sheep and mice 2001 China's first cloned twin calves 1981 first experimental clones of mice 2002 first cloned cats1983 first experimental clones of cows 2005 first cloned dogFrom time to time (不时) people suggest that extinct animals like dinosaurs, can 7. possibly (possible) be brought back to life through cloning. Unfortunately, with what we know now, this is either impossible or 8.unsuitable (suit). There are many reasons.◎The initial (最初的) requirement is that you need perfect DNA (which gives information for how cells are to grow).◎All efforts of cloning an animal will be in vain (徒劳) if there is not enough diversity in the group 9. to overcome (overcome) illnesses. Diversity in a group means 10. having (have) animals with their genes arranged in different ways. The advantage is that 11. if there is a new illness some of these animals may die, but others will survive and pass 12. on the ability 13. to resist (resist) that disease to the next generation. The great drawback to cloning a group of animals is that they would all have the same arrangement of genes and so might die of the same illness. Then none of them would 14. be left (leave) to continue the species.◎It would be unfair to clone any extinct animals if they were to live in a zoo. Asuitable habitat would be needed for them to lead a natural life.15. Based (base) on what we know now, you cannot clone animals that have been extinct longer than 10,000 years. Actually, dinosaurs disappeared 65,000,000 years ago. So the chance of dinosaurs ever returning to the earth is merely (mere) a dream.。

English learning Plan of Senior 2（导学案）The wish words of teacher's（教师寄语）：Relax! Be patient and enjoy yourself. Learning foreign languages should be fun. (放松点！要有耐性，并让自己快乐！学习外语应该是乐趣无穷的。

）㈠Teaching aims(学习目标)1.Knowledge aims（知识目标）⑴To learn about cloning by reading.⑵.To master and understand some structures and complex sentences.2.Ability aims（技能目标）⑴. Read passages by using different reading skills (skimming﹑scanning﹑careful reading) .⑵. Express own opinions about cloning in form of debate..3.Emotion aims（情感目标）⑴Be interested in science technology (cloning).⑵. Learn to team up with others.㈡Special and difficult Points(学习重难点)1. Learn different reading skills(Skimming, scanning﹠careful reading).2 Learn more about cloning.3. Describe cloning in your own words.㈢The procedure of learning （学习过程）Before class (课前预习胸有成竹)【自主预习】㈠学法指导⑴通读本篇文章，查字典，猜生词，记短语，勾出文中复合句以及难句。