Week 4 英语专业阅读教程.pptVIP

Lead-in What do you know about and think about animal experiments? Lead-in Last Week’s Assignment Download a news article about animal experiment from the internet and read it carefully; Write a summary of the news and hand it in next week, including information about its source and publishing date. Pair work: Describe your news items to each other, and then report the gist of your partner’s news to the class. Text Study Reading 2: main ideas sentence comprehension word focus Reading 3: background information main ideas sentence comprehension word focus Group work: a comparison of reading 2 and 3 Text Study: Reading 2 Para 1 What’s the author’s position concerning animal experiments? Para 2 What is his accusers’ claim? Para 3 Why does he regret being apathetic and complacent? Para 4-5 According to the author, why are animal experiments necessary? Para 6 What is the impact of restricting animal experiments? Para 7 What is the benefit of animal experiments? Para 8 What does the author accuse animal activists of? Text Study: Reading 2 Meanwhile, an apathetic public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance, and publicity-conscious politicians increasingly give way to the demands of the activists. (Para 2) Q: What’s the attitude of the public? Q: Why do politicians increasingly give way to demands of animal activists? Text Study: Reading 2 We in medical research have also been unconscionably apathetic. We have allowed the most extreme animal rights protesters to seize the initiative and frame the issue as one of “animal fraud”. (Para 3) Q: Can you explain the words in red? Text Study: Reading 2 The real question is whether an apathetic majority can be aroused to protect its future against a vocal, but misdirected minority. (Para 9) Q: Who does the author refer to by “a vocal minority”? Why does he call them “vocal” and “minority”? Text Study: Reading 2 tip the scales My desire to tip the scales in favor of the hea