1. cloning
Reading
Where is it leading us?
Book 8 unit 2

2. Top10 inventions in 20th century:

3. NO. 10
atomic bomb

4. NO. 9
space shuttle

5. NO. 8
television

6. NO. 7
artificial satellite

7. NO. 6
aspirin

8. NO. 5
Airliner

9. NO. 4
personal computer

10. NO. 3
Mobilephone

11. NO. 2
internet

12. NO. 1
cloning

13. How much do you know about cloning?

14. Look at the following pictures and answer the questions:
Warming up ( 5ms )
Look at the following pictures and answer the questions:
1. It’s the most famous sheep in the world. Do you know how it is different from other sheep?
She was cloned while the others were born naturally. It is the copy of another sheep.
Dolly is a ______ sheep.
cloned

15. 2. Are the following clones the same?
If not, what is the difference?

16. Two kinds of clones:
Natural clone is one that occurs in a natural form of cloning without human help.
Man-made clone is one that is
produced through human
intervention(介入) .

17. Cloning , where are you leading us?
......

18. First reading C What’s the style of the passage ? A. narrative (记叙文)
B. argumentative(议论文)
C. explanatory(说明文) C

19. Second Reading Main idea of each paragraph
(Attention: one of them belongs to nowhere.)
① Dolly’s problem and death
② What is cloning?
③ Two major uses of cloning
⑥ The effect of Dolly
④ Arguments brought by Dolly
⑤The procedure for human cloning

20. (Attention: one of them belongs to nowhere.)
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para4
Para5
① Dolly’s problem and death
②What is cloning?
③ Two major uses of cloning
④ Arguments brought by Dolly
⑤The procedure for human cloning
⑥ The effect of Dolly

21. Para 1
The definition of cloning
1. What is cloning ?
Cloning is a way of making an exact copy of another animal and plant.
It happens both in ______ and in_______. They can be cloned by ________ and _______.
plants
animals
themselves
humans
Natural clone
Man-made clone

22. In this paragraph, the word “straightforward” means ____.
The major uses and procedures of cloning
Firstly, …commercial…
Secondly, …research…
In this paragraph, the word “straightforward” means ____.
A. uncomplicated B. honest C. frank D. difficult

23. Do you know about:
The procedure works of a sheep?
procedure

25. Para 3 The problems of Dolly
At first, the fact that Dolly developed ______ in a natural way was __________.
Later, the news _____Dolly had become seriously ill was __________.
Finally, the problem that occurred to the scientists was that a cloned animal lives _____________ the original one.
normally
encouraging
that
disturbing
shorter than
as long as / shorter than / longer than
The sheep that donated the somatic cell most
probably lived ____ years. 12

26. Para 4 The impact of Dolly
Its’ appearance raised and the media and public imagination.
a storm of objections
had a great impact on
The word “controversial” in Para 4 probably means :____________.
A. complicated
B. arguable
C. important
D. traditional

27. People’s reaction to cloning
Para 5
People’s reaction to cloning
True or false:
People feared that Cloned
Hitlers would do harm to the world.
2 All the research into human beings will be forbidden.
3 Some countries will use cloning in a wise way.
Many governments forbade research into human beings.

28. B. Negative (be against it) C. Positive (be in favor of it)
The writer’s attitude towards cloning
A. Objective (be fair)
B. Negative (be against it)
C. Positive (be in favor of it)
Because_________________________________________________________________
the author does not state any personal opinion about cloning.

29. Fill in the chart about the advantages and disadvantages of cloning.
Intensive Reading
Fill in the chart about the advantages and disadvantages of cloning.

30. Collecting information
Advantage(good points)
Disadvantage(bad points)
Cloning is beneficial to
Animals clones get ill and
humans
die young
It can make more profits for
Against nature
gardeners and farmers
Animals clones may develop the illness of
We could use cloning to cure
older animals
illness
Evil leaders may want to
Cloning can help save
clone themselves
endangered animals
Cloning can provide a copy of a child for a couple
People are afraid that scientists will create thousands of copies of the same person.
whose child has died

31. Practice activity: Debate
Are you in favor of cloning or against cloning? State your point of view on it.
For ＶＳ
Against

32. Homework: