2019-2020年高中英语必修5Unit3ReadingTheperfectcopy.doc

2019-2020年高中英语必修5Unit3ReadingTheperfectcopyStep1: Leading-in As we all know, animal cloning has been the concern of science munity and also the subject of scientific experiments for years. The cloned animals, especially Dolly drew peoples attention to this field. Scientists think this technology can be used to save endangered animals such as Panda and it also has many other uses.Step 2: Fast reading for general ideasGo through the passage as quickly as possible and try to find answers to the three questions in part A on Page42. Just focus on and identify the information needed to answer these questions. Meanwhile pay attention to the structure of the newspaper article. Answers1. Both2.Dolly.3.Anti-cloning.Step 3: Detailed reading for important information1. Lets read the newspaper article and the two letters again and plete Parts C1 and C2 on page 44. AnswersC1 1F 2F 3T 5F 6FC2 Pro-cloning 2. cure disease like cancer 3. help those who are unable to have children 4. help those who want to clone their dead childrenAnti-cloning 2. create more disease in the animal world 3. cloning shows no respect for human life 4. human life would no longer be unique 5. we should be having fewer babies in order to reduce Earths population, not cloning more2. Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:(1) What are the different attitudes towards the success of cloning a human cell?(2) What does Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who created Dolly, intend to use cloning for?(3) Who are the three persons in the article related to cloning?Answers1. Valuable tissues and organs and organs can be produced to save human lives. Human beings may be on the way to producing a real-life monster. Some people consider that cloning human embryos with the intention to destroy them shows no respect for human life.2. He thinks research efforts should be concentrated on creating new tissues and organs that could eventually be used to cure diseases like cancer.3. Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist who created Dolly and was shocked when hearing some scientists were considering cloning human beings. He never intends to create copies of humans. Instead, he thinks the efforts of scientists should be directed towards creating new cells and organs that could eventually be used to cure diseases like cancer.Faye Wilson, a woman of 41 years old who can not have a baby. She is desperate to have a baby of her own, a child that is genetically related to her.Severine Antinori, an Italian doctor, who is one of the leaders in the cloning research. He has declared that he wants to be the first to clone a human being. Step 4: Practice1. Lets plete Parts D (Refer to the text while plete part D)AnswersD 1b 2a 3d 4e 5c 6g 7 h 8f2. Now, lets read a letter to the editor of the newspaper in response to the article on cloning written by your friend Wang Lin. Help him plete the letter.E 1)cloning 2)cell 3)successfully 4)immoral 5)right6)consequences 7)younger 8) humans9)laws 10) ItalianStep 5: Post-reading activities1. Now lets make up a dialogue by using the questions in Part F on Page 45. Work in pairs for a few minutes and then present you dialogue to the whole class.2. Lets continue the discussion. (1) If human cloning was successful, who would be happy apart from the parents?(2) Do you think it would be easy for the cloned baby to accept his/her social idendity as a cloned human being?(3) What would the cloned baby call the original cell owner, mother/father or sister/brother? 3. Lets have a debate about the question whether human beings should be cloned. You will be divided into two groups. One group represents anti-cloning views while the other represents pro-cloning views. You can provide as many reasons as you can to support your ideas.Step 5: Language pointsVocabularywordsannouncement, tissue, organ, interfere, cell, praise, breakthrough, intention, anxiety, desperate, adopt, genetically, deliver, medical, succeed, benefit, totally, immoral, consequence, sale, ment, advance, morality,useful expressionson the one hand, point out, on ones way to, concentrate on, show no respect for, focuson, end up, for sale, use up, feel sorry for, be delighted to, ment on, in agreement with, after all, on a personal note, die ofsentence patternsIf I had the chance, I would have.as well as stem cells to be used in medical researchresearch ways in which cloning can benefit mankindStep6: Homework1. Pars A1 and A2 on page 106 in Workbook.2. Read the article in Part B on page 111 in Workbook. What do you think about the stem cell research.