九年级版英语下册Lesson 15教案
Lesson 15: Cloning QuestionsTeaching Content:
Mastery words and expressions: neither, nor, neither…nor…, dead
Oral words and expressions: mammoth
Teaching Aims:
1. Be familiar to the e-mail.
2. Know more about cloning.
Teaching Important Points:
1. The expressions of ability and inability.
2. The use of coordinating conjunction.
Teaching Difficult Points:
The use of coordinating conjunction.
Teaching Preparation: pictures
Teaching Aids: flashcards, audiotape, pictures
Type of lesson: new lesson
Teaching Procedure:
Step1. Lead in by showing some pictures of cloning. Let the students talk about the use of cloning.
What is cloning?
What is cloning used for?
What can we do with cloning?
Step2. Listening task:
Listen to the tape and answer the following questions:
1. What did Li Ming study this week in school?
2. What's the name of the first cloned animal?
Ask the students to answer the questions in class in oral.
Step3. Reading task:
Read the text and decide the statements are True or False.
1. Li Ming doesn't think cloning is interesting.
2. Li Ming knew how the sheep Dolly cloned.
3. Jenny has ever studied cloning.
Finish the task in class in oral.
Step4.Read the text again and find the sentences with the new words. Let the students guess the meanings of the new words. Give more examples with the new words.
I knew that English scientists had cloned a sheep, but I knew neither how nor why.
I chose mammoths.
Ask the students to make sentences with neither…nor…
He is neither a teacher nor a doctor.
Neither he nor I am thirteen years old.
Step5. Sum the main idea of the two e-mails. Let the students tell them in their own words, not word by word according to the content of the e-mails.
Step6. Come to "LET'S DO IT".
Divide the class into groups of three or four. Use the Internet or other tools to find more information about cloning.
Talk about what, where, when, why and how cloning is taking place.
Everyone writes down a short passage, then exchange it with the others. Next one of the members of the group gives a report in front of the class.
Step7. Homework
1. Finish off the exercises in the activity book.
2. Ask your parents for some information about cloning.
Sum
mary:
Cloning is new to the students. Let them get more information on the Internet. That is helpful for them. It is helpful for them to use the Internet for some important information. On the other hand, the coordination conjunctions are important in this unit. So make more practice in class.
