Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning

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Unit 8
Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning
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Stage 1 Warming-up Activities
Stage 2 Reading-Centred Activities
Stage 3 Vocabulary Exercises
Stage 4 Translating and Writing
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Warming-up Activities

• Group work
• Questions for thought and discussion
• Background information
• Enriching your vocabulary
• Comparing the following words

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Group work

• Think about the pre-reading questions
  before listening and anticipate what we are going
  to read.

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2. Pre-reading questions for the students

• 2.1.From a medical standpoint, what are the
  positive and negative effects of human cloning?
• HintIts a great progress in the medical field.
  The cloned organs will save the lives of some
  people who are seriously ill. Yet before this
  technique is clinically used, it still needs to
  be tested.

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• 2.2. From a social and moral standpoint, do you
  think cloning would be a good thing for humans?
• Hint Perhaps its not acceptable. It will cause
  a confused relationship between a human clone and
  the donor of its DNA. A disrespected social class
  will appear.

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Questions for thought and discussion

• Listen to a short passage carefully and then
  answer the following questions.

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Background information

• cloningthe process of making a genetically
  identical organism through nonsexual means.
• Examples Dolly, and the sheep cloned in China,
  etc.

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Enriching your vocabulary

• Read the sentences carefully and guess the
  meaning of the italicized term in each sentence
  according to the context and your own
  experiences.

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Comparing the following words

• machine machinery
• fatal vital critical

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Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of
  the text.
• Prepare to tell a story about the symbols of
  American or Chinese culture.

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Reading-Centred Activities

• Global Reading Task
• Text structure analysis
• The essay focuses on one central theme the legal
  and moral implications of cloning. One
  characteristic writing technique that runs
  throughout the reading passage is listing.

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• The essay lists a number of questions about the
  legal and moral implications that arise from
  cloning. The whole passage can be divided into 4
  parts

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Background situation It was science fiction
coning to life With the success of cloning an
adult mammal, a world with human clones was
suddenly within reach. Para.1
Responses to the general situation
Responses from the governments Governments
hurried to draft guide- lines for an unknown
future and President Clinton ordered a
national commission to study the relative
issues. Some countries began examining the moral
implications of cloning other species.( Para .2)
Responses from scientists etc. like the Theory
of Relativity, the splitting of the atom, and
the first space flight, cloning has generated a
long list of difficult puzzles for scientists,
politicians,and philosophers.( Para. 3)
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 A list of puzzles or questions 6 puzzles are
listed.
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Reading-Centred Activities

• 2. Detailed Reading Task
• Language points
• Simulated writing (exercises 8 and 9 )

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Language points to be explained and practiced

• (1)Word last week thatcaught the imagination of
  everyone. (Para. 1)
• Word spread fast that he had won the Nobel
  prize.
• (2) work for (Para. 1)
• a. apply to
• The rules of safe driving work for everyone.

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• b. make efforts to achieve something
• They worked for the complete abolition of
  capitalist exploitation of men by men.
• (3) come to life (Para. 1) be alive or vivid
• When I mentioned out plans for a trip
  abroad, the kids came to life at once.
• (4) in the wake of (Para. 2) coming after or
  following
• Airport security was extra tight in the wake
  of yesterdays bomb attacks.
• (5) in the first place, in the second place
• (Para. 4)

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• It was unwise to suggest that others should
  store tinned food. In the first place few people
  would have room to store much and in the second
  tinned food should be treated with great care.
• (6) in theory (Para.7)
• In theory and practice, human beings can be
  cloned.
• (7) be identical to/with (Para. 8) be exactly
  the same as
• The tests are identical to those carried out
  last year.
• (8) What if (Para. 11) What would happen if
• What if we go and see a film tomorrow night?
• (9) get around/round(para. 13) overcome avoid
  or find a satisfactory way of dealing with.

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• The administration got around this problem by
  introducing a new law.
• (10) under the name of (Para. 15) using a name
  different from ones own
• Ive come to collect my tickets I reserved
  them by phone yesterday under the name of Tremin.
• compare
• a. in the name of sth for the sake of
• They acted in the name of democracy.
• b. in the name of sb representing a certain
  group of people
• Could you write a letter in the name of all
  the young people in the village?

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• (11) regardless of (Para. 15) pay no attention
  to
• He bought everything he liked regardless of
  price.
• (12) be concerned about/over (Para. 18) give
  ones attention to or worry about
• Why are you so concerned about the boys
  safety?
• (13) puzzle over (Para. 18) think hard about,
  find the answer by thinking hard
• Why waste effort puzzling over his
  intentions?
• If you dont like his idea, dont accept it.

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Questions put forward by the students.

• How did the world react to the first successfully
  cloned sheep?
• What are the two broad categories human cloning
  situations often fall into?
• According to the author, why are twins more alike
  than clones?
• Biologically speaking, what is the only possible
  major difference between a clone and the
  original?
• Why do some parents want to save their fatally
  ill child through cloning?

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• Could cloned animals be used as organ donors?
• How did Judith Martin suggest referring to ones
  DNA donors?
• What is the gravest concern about human cloning
  for society?
• Homework
• review the text