Фрагмент урока английского языка для 11 класса из раздела «World of science»
MODULE: DEVELOPING RECEPTIVE SKILLS
Name of the participant Polina Proshutinskaya
Aims of the reading material by the end of the lesson students will be able to read the text for gist and specific information
Students’ age, level 11th grade/intermediate
Text chosen (title, type, authenticity, content) ‘A copying machine for living beings?’ (an authentic scientific article about cloning)
Reading subskills developed skimming, scanning
Main coursebook used and the unit you are going to use this material in New Millennium English, Unit 6 World of science
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Pre-reading While -reading Post -reading |
Look at the key words. Try to guess how they are connected. sheep science copy experiment people Look at the title of the article and at the picture below, check your guesses. Read the text and find out what’s the main topic of the article. A scientific experiments B cloning C the animal of the year Read the article again and answer the questions 1. Who created the first clone? 2. Where was a ‘cloning machine’ designed? 3. Was the process of creating a clone difficult? Look through the article and tick the facts which were mentioned 1. Ian Wilmut made some experiments to clone a sheep 2. The first cloning copy was created in 1997 3. It’s possible to clone people in nowadays 4. Many governments have introduced laws to ban cloning of people 5. There were experiments with other species of animals
Discuss in pairs and report your opinion to the class Do you think it’s possible to clone people? What’s your attitude to cloning? |
Motivate students Introduce the topic of the article To develop skimming and scanning reading subskills To integrate reading and speaking skills |
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