warming up and reading
汕头市六都中学 陈秀君
1.Ability goals:
Enable the Ss.to describe cloning:
What is the advantages of cloning?
What is the problems or dangers of cloning?
What is your opinion of cloning?
2.Learning ability goals:
Help the Ss.learn how to describe cloning.
(1)Teaching important points
How to describe cloning.
(2)Teaching difficult points.
Help the Ss. analyze the writing techniques of the article.
(3)Teaching methods
Skimming,task-based method and debate method
(4)Teaching aids
A recorder, a projector ,multi-media.
Teaching procedures and ways
Step 1 lead in
T:Do you know what is cloning?
Let the Ss. look at pictures:
Which ones are natural clones and which ones are man-made.
Explain how they differ.
Step2 pre-reading
What benefits can humans gain from cloning？
What problems may arise when humans are cloned？
Step 3 reading
skimmimg
What’s the text mainly about?
scanning
para 1
How do gardeners clone plants?
Main idea:
Para 2
What two major uses do cloning have?
How many femal sheep participate in the cloning of a new sheep.
Main idea:
Para3
What problems do Dolly have?
Main idea:
Para4
What the effect of Dolly?
Main idea:
Para5
Main idea:
careful reading
(1)give the order of procedure.
(2)fill in the chart
Problems or dangers of cloning
Advantages of cloning
(3)discuss
What is your opinion of cloning?Give reason.
Step 4 Language points
1． Firstly ,gardeners use it all the time to produce commercial quantities of plants.
quantities of 许多，大量的。既可修饰可数名词又可修饰不可数名词。
拓展：a large /good/great number of+可数名词复数
a great /good deal of+不可数名词
a great /good many +可数名词复数
many a +单数名词（谓语用单数）
more than one +单数名词（谓语用单数）
2.cloning scientists were cast down to find that Dolly’s illnesses ……
cast down ：discourge 使沮丧
be cast down:feel discourged 灰心，沮丧
词汇：cast about/around for 到处寻找，试图找到
cast away 抛弃，遭船难
cast aside 抛弃，丢一边
cast off 放弃，脱掉
3.On the other hand,Dolly’s appearance raised a storm of objections and …….
objection:不赞成，反对，异议
have an objection to (doing) sth. 反对干某事
raise /voice an objection 提出反对意见
object vi. 不赞成，反对
object to sth./doing sth.反对做…
4．It suddenly opened everybody’s eyes to the possiblility…..
open one’s eyes to sth.使某人明了，对…开了眼界。
5.The fact that she seemed to develop normally……
that 引导同位语从句，说明fact 的内容，that不做成分。
6．Then came the disturbing news that Dolly had become seriously ill.
倒装句型：表方位或方式的副词或介词短语，如：here,there
,now,then,up,down,in,away,off,out,in the room,on the wall等，置于句首时，句子倒装。
将下列各句变为倒装句。
1． The plane flew away.
2． Thousands of Ss.waited in the lecture hall.
3． Your turn to recite the passage comes now.
Step5 summary (2m)
综合评价意见
本课是阅读课，在阅读中主要采取skimming, scanning, timing reading 等阅读方法。阅读前的讨论是围绕即将阅读的材料提出话题或问题，通过讨论唤起学生的背景知识和阅读兴趣，使学生对所要阅读的材料有一定的心理准备，然后带着目的去阅读。阅读后的讨论一是为了检查学生对文章的理解情况，并进行交流，让学生充分发挥想象力。教学过程中以学生为中心，突出学生的主体作用。在课堂上，每个学生都是课堂教学的中心。讨论式教学能为学生提供运用语言的语境与机会能协助学生在语言实践中把语言知识和技能主动转化为交流能力。并且学生在讨论中思维活跃，发言积极。
陈秀君老师在教学过程中谈笑风生，时常与学生开展对话讨论，表现了良好的师生关系，表现了她良好的教学组织能力和灵活机智。
本课主要亮点：执教者能结合新课标理念、结合高考要求、结合学生实际水平，传统教学手段和现代多媒体教学手段相结合，恰当合理呈现本课内容。