The perfect copy

Title understandingTitle understandingWhat does the word copy mean?

A. model

B. clone

C. similarity

D. imitation

___ pigscloned

Reading strategy for article about science Read for the general idea ( the 1st and the

last paragraphs)

Deal with the information you don’t know ( circle the words and question things)

Read through the article a few times for the further understanding

While-reading skimming Go through the newspaper article for the gist

What is the main idea of the article?

Does the article give an anti- or pro-cloning point of view, or both?

A recent announcement by scientists that they havesuccessfully cloned the first human embryo has caused much debate and has shocked many people around the world.

Both .

“Cloning” is producing an exact copy of an animal or a plant using its cells.

Scientific termScientific term clone

Para.1 Different opinions on the first ____________

1. What are the different attitudes towards the success of cloning a human embryo?

On the one hand

On the other hand

valuable tissues and organs can be produced and be used to save human lives

human beings may be on the way to producing a real-life monster

human embryo cloning

Frankenstein’s monster Frankenstein is the character

of a science fiction written by Mary Shelly.

If we call somebody Frankenstein nowadays, we mean that he is destroyed by something he has created.

The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. The monster he creates can’t be accepted and understood by the society . He felt angry .He killed his creator at last.

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On the one hand On the other hand

Much debate

Some scientists

If…can produce…

save human lives

many people,including…

If...toy with…

produce a monster

point out disagree & fear

Para.2 different opinions on the birth of _______

T / F Dolly, the first cloned mammal, is exactly the same as other sheep.

Why were people angry about the birth of Dolly?

Cloning would create more disease in the animal world.

an exact copy of its mother

Dolly

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Cloning:Cloning:

Dolly the sheep:Dolly the sheep:

The world’s The world’s attitudes:attitudes:

producing an exact copy of a plant or an animal using its cells

1.the first mammal 2.born in 1996 3.died in early 2003

Note-making:Note-making:

1)be worried ( create more diseases…) 2)be praised for their breakthrough

Para.3-5 three persons’ intension persons introductions relations to cloning

Ian Wilmut

a Scottish ________ who created Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned successfully from___________

He was _______when hearing______________________________________________. He never intends to____________________. Instead, he thinks the efforts of scientists should be focused on ________________________that could be used to__________________________.

Faye Wilson

a woman of 41 years old who cannot have a _______.

She is anxious to have a baby of her own, a cloned child.

Severino Antinori an Italian______ He has declared

that___________________________________________.

scientist

an adult cell

shocked some scientists

were considering cloning human beingscreate copies of humans

creating new tissuesand organs curediseases like cancer

baby

physician he wants to be the

first to clone a human being

Para.6 the a of China on cloning chievements

Read the two letters carefully, and find out the two

writers’ attitudes towards human cloning.

Pauline Carter is ____ cloning .

Reasons

Coline Jake is _______ cloning.

Reasons

1. Human life would just become a copy to be harvested or produced for sale.

2. We should be having fewer babies in order to reduce Earth’s population, not cloning more.

I would clone her so that I could be with her again.

for

against

Conclude the reasons why people are pro-cloning or anti-cloning

for-cloning against-cloning1 Produce______ tissues and organs that could be used to ______ human lives

1 may produce a real-life

Frankenstein’s ______

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2 cure ______ like cancer

3 help those who are unable to ____ _______

4 help those who want to clone their______ children

2 create more diseases in the _____ ______

3 show no _____ for human life4 human life would just become ___ ______ to be harvested or produced _____ _____.

5 we should be having ____ babies in order to reduce Earth’s population, not cloning more

• True or False• 1.People all over the world are happy about the idea

of cloning human beings.• 2.Dolly, the first cloned mammal, is exactly the same

as other sheep.• 3.According to the article, the scientist who created

Dolly does not agree with cloning human beings.• 4.Cloning can be used to cure diseases because it

can produce new tissues and organs.• 5.Colin Jake is against cloning humans, just like

Pauline Carter.• 6.Cloning human beings is illegal in many countries,

so no scientists want to clone human beings.

F Not all people

F

T

Not exactly

T

F Not like

F A few scientists

DiscussionHuman Cloning: Good or Bad ?

Group A---For side Group B---Against side

1. voice your general opinions on human cloning

2. free talk