Unit 3 Animal Magic (Integrated English Book 4)

Reading Comprehension

Made By: Tang Chengyan

OutlineTeaching objectivesEmphasis & Difficulty

Teaching Aids & MethodsTeaching Procedures

1. Pre-reading task

2. While-reading: words, phrases & notes

3. After-reading: Questions for discussion

4. Homework

Teaching Objectives:

1. Key words and phrases from the text

2. Comprehension on the definition and significance of transplant

Emphasis: Target language: Vocabulary and Phrase

Difficulties: Definition of rule of xeotransplant and its significa

nce

Teaching aids: 1.Tap-recorder 2. Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary or Current

English with Chinese Translation

Teaching methods: 1. Instruction 2. Cooperative Learning 3. Communicative Approach

Teaching procedures 1. Pre-reading Task 1) Discuss

It is not common to hear of human – to- human organ transplants. But do you think it possible to transplant animal organs into the human body?

What would be the greatest problem with transplanting animal organs into a human body, scientific or ethical?

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2). Read and Learn the new words and useful phrases on word list.

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2. While-reading Words and Phrases 1) Kidney: 肾，肾脏 2) Lung: 肺 , 呼吸器 , 肺脏 3) Liver: 肝脏 4) Hence: For this reason; therefore: 因此；所以 5)baboon: 〈动〉狒狒 6)launch: To set going; 发动

Teaching procedures 7)activate:To convert (certain biological compounds) i

nto biologically active derivatives.

使活化变（某些生物复合物）为生物性能活跃的派生物

8) enzyme: [ 生化 ] 酶 9) transfuse: To cause to be instilled or imparted; 使

…被灌输或传达

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10) embryo: An organism in its early stages of development, especially before it has reached a distinctively recognizable form.

胚胎 ( 有机体的发育早期阶段，尤指还未长成独立的可分辨的形状 )

Teaching procedures 11) inhibitor: One that inhibits, as a substance th

at retards or stops a chemical reaction. 抑制物，如可减缓或停止化学反应的物质 12) primate: A mammal of the order Primates, w

hich includes the anthropoids and prosimians, characterized by refined development of the

hands and feet, a shortened snout, and a large brain.

灵长目属于灵长目的哺乳动物，包括类人猿和原猴亚目的猴，主要特 征是手足进一步进化 , 口鼻缩短，大脑增大

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13) xenograft: [ 医 ] 异种移植物 14) insulin: 胰岛素 15) diabetes: 糖尿病 16) cannibalism: n. 嗜食同类 , 食人 , 自相残杀，

人吃人的

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17) Bear something in mind: remember 18) Be fatal to: be disastrous 19) Clinical trial: experimental 20) Go into: investigate 21) Long-term: future

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Notes 1) transplant: surgical operation in which a part

of a person’s body is replaced by someone else, or an artificial version.

2) organ: here, part of the body that has a particular purpose of function, for example, the heart, liver, or lungs

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3) remainder: what remains or is left over 4) immune system: system by which the body prot

ects itself against diseases 5) foreign body: object that has got into something

else, useally by accident, and should not be there; foreign: coming from outside, The transplant organ comes from another body and is not native to the patient.

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6)Tissue: here, cells in animals or plants that are similar in appearance and function

7) immuno-suppressants: drugs that prevent the body’s immune systemform working effectively

8) pass on: transmit

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9) Pig’s organs, though, are close in function and size to those of humans… fatal to humans: Pig’s organs are similar to those of humans in many ways but different enough not to transmit deadly diseases to humans.

10) beating the previous best result: going beyond, or doing better than the results the scientists ever got.

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11) otherwise: or else; in the circumstances other than those considered. E.g. Bring your umbrella. Otherwise you’ll get wet.

12) ethical: influenced by a system of moral beliefs about right and wrong.

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13) barrier: here, something that makes it difficult or impossible for something else to happen or to be achieved

14) cause an uproar: produce or give rise to public criticism.

15) animal rights campaigners: those people who fight for the rights of animals

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16) consumption: here, act of eating the pig’s meat

17) a form of cannibalism: similar to the eating of human flesh; cannibal; an animal that feeds on flesh of its own species.

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3. After-reading1) Conclude the ethical and social problems of

animal-to-human transplants

2) Find out where should science stop when it comes to animal-to-animal transplants.

Teaching procedures Suggested points for after-reading

1)a. what if the transgenic breeds become human-like? Do we treat them human or nonhuman animals?

b. Can we eat the remaining parts of animals that have human gene? Is this cannibalism?

c. What are the potential dangers of new diseases? Viruses affecting one breed of animals may possibly transform into a new type that affects human beings.

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Suggested points for after-reading 2) What kind of transgenic pig can be

considered a true pig? Where is the line to drawn?

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Homework Finish the exercise based the context

from page 42 to 43. Read and do the exercise based on text

II on page 45

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