Unit7ResearchintoPopulationGenetics.doc

Unit 7 Research into Population Genetics Teaching Period of Time: 8 classes Teaching Objectives To know the meaning and usage of some important words, phrases and patterns To be familiar with the writing skills of the text and make use of it in writing To respond to and cooperate with classmates willingly To participate actively To read sentences and texts with proper intonation To write smoothly and legibly III. Teaching Contents Warm-up exercises involving in speaking activities Global reading that lead to a deep understanding of the text Language points that help to understand the text Extensive learning Assignment IV. Teaching contents in details 1. Warm-up Exercises Step 1 Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step 2. Lead-in and preparation for reading Topics Charles Darwin’s theory of Evolution of Species International Developments in genetic engineering in the recent years Purposes To develop Ss’ online learning ability To improve Ss’ ability to retrieve the relevant information To stimulate Ss??? psychomotor thinking To arouse Ss’ interest in learning the unit Method: Talk in groups; Use task-based language teaching method, communicative approach, and audio-lingual method. Background Knowledge Luca Cavalli-Sforza (A) Cavalli-Sforza, born in Genoa, Italy, was educated at the University of Pavia where he gained his MD in 1944. After working on bacterial genetics at Cambridge (1948－1950) and Milan (1950－1957) he has held chairs in genetics at Parma (1958－1962) and Pavia (1962－1970). In 1970 he was appointed professor of genetics at the University of Stanford, California, a position he held until his retirement in 1992. Luca Cavalli-Sforza (B) Cavalli-Sforza has specialized mainly in the genetics of human populations, producing with Walter Bodmer a comprehensive survey of the subject in their Genetics, Evolution and Man (1976). He has also done much to show how genetic data from present human racial groups could be used to reconstruct their pas