英语选修8人教新课标Unit 2广州市课件：（教案4）42张教案.ppt

1. Read these statements before listening. Tick those that you hear. ① Cloning will bring dead pets to life. ② There were 627 experiments before Dolly was successfully cloned. * ③ Cloning may help cure serious illnesses. ④ It’s a dead end. ⑤ Dolly the sheep was “middle-aged” when she was born. ⑥ So your grandmother would be able to start her life all over again and live much longer. * 2. Listen to the tape again and fill in the chart. Rachel’s ideas about cloning Xiao Qing’s ideas about cloning 1 cruel to animals 1 scientists are doing a wonderful job 2 makes the animals do unnatural things 2 may bring people’s favourite pets back to life * Mary’s ideas about cloning Xiao Qing’s ideas about cloning 4 weakens the species 4 it may provide cures for serious illnesses 3 it is a “dead end” 3 problems because it is a new science * 3. Whose ideas do you agree with? Get ready to have a class discussion. Think about the reasons for your point of view. Use your own ideas as well as those in the text. * Sample dialogue XIAO: I agree with animals cloning. I think we must be safe so animals are needed to test things first. LEI: No, I can’t agree with that because animals are alive too. Don’t they deserve a good life? * DAVE: I agree with XIAO because we won’t know if cloning is safe for humans unless we try it on animals first. LILY: How can you believe that? Lei’s argument is correct. If we make animals live unnatural lives and do unnatural things, then it won’t be good for them or us. * XIAO: But the scientists are trying their best to make things better for the animals. They want them to have as natural a life as possible. Your ideas are not reasonable. Unless we try things out on animals, cloning may not be safe for human beings. * DAVE: Your arguments have convinced me, Xiao. I will vote with you. LILY: Lei’s arguments sound more encouraging to me. I support a better life for animals used in cloning experiments.