1.　　　 Li Ming doesn’t think cloning is interesting.

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.　　　 What did Li Ming study this week in school?

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.　　　 The expressions of ability and inability.

2.　　　 Know more about cloning.

Teaching Important Points:

1.　　　 Be familiar to the e-mail.

2.　　　 Go on the next reading in the student book.

Summary:

It is fun to give the students chances to speak in front of the class. Sometimes they think they are not happy in their daily life. They don’t want to do something sometimes, so they want someone else to do it for him or her. Maybe some students think clones of themselves are useful to them.

Lesson 15: Cloning Questions

Teaching Content:

Mastery words and expressions: neither, nor, neither…nor…, dead

Oral words and expressions: mammoth

Teaching Aims:

3.　　　 Katie’s clone would live the living room with Katie.

Finish the task in class in oral.

Step4. Read the text again and try to find the sentences with the new words.

What does Katie mean by “a secret clone”?

I doubt what she says!

“Foolish” means “silly or stupid”.

Also, she would play chess with me.

Maybe I need a robot!

She would feed my tow cats, clean my room and practise my flute.

Step5. Ask some students to tell the main idea of the text. Let some students say it in front of the class.

Step6. Group Work

Talk about the subject in groups. Talk for about five minutes. If you have a clone of yourself, what would you like her or him to do for you?

Write what you think of down on a piece of paper. Then exchange their ideas in groups. One of the members sum what they think of. Then present it in front of the class.

Step7. Come to “LET’S DO IT”.

Finish the task in pairs. Make up a dialogue with a partner and act it out in front of the class.

Encourage them to make the story funny.

Make the ending surprising.

Step8. Homework

2.　　　 Katie already has three sisters.