Урок-диспут

Life in the 21

st

century.

Health and medical advances

Жизнь в 21 веке.

Достижения в медицине, проекты на будущее. За и против.

Цели: к концу урока ученики смогут использовать новую лексику по теме в своей речи,

беседовать об успехах в развитии медицины, спорить о вопросах необходимости

продления жизни человека, о роли здорового образа жизни.

Образовательная цель: развивать умение учащихся работать с текстом, словарем,

справочной литературой, Интернетом; развивать умение вести диалог с собеседником,

находить необходимые доводы, грамотно аргументировать свою точку зрения.

Воспитательная цель: воспитывать у учащихся уважение к собеседнику (оппоненту,

повышать мотивацию учащегося к изучению предмета; прививать чувство необходимости

здорового образа жизни.

Целевая группа: учащиеся 11 класса.

Материалы: подборка статей о научных исследованиях в области генной инженерии, о

возможности продления жизни человека, клонировании, о здоровом образе жизни; анализ

результат опроса учащихся нашей школы по вопросу курения, статьи из Интернета.

Ход урока

1.

Разминка. Какие из последних научных достижений, разработок, направлений в

медицине вам показались наиболее интересными?

2.

Аудирование. Прослушайте отрывок из интервью доктора Картрайта. Выскажите

свое мнение.

3.

Основная часть. Учащимся предлагается образовать группы сторонников и

противников нововведений. Им предлагается выступить по одному из

интересующих их вопросов: использование компьютерных чипов для увеличения

потенциала головного мозга, генная инженерия, модифицированные растения и

животные, продление жизни человека (надо ли полагаться только на ученых), роль

здорового образа жизни в современном обществе, отношение к курению – анализ

результатов опроса старшеклассников.

4.

Подведение итогов. Вывод.

Life in the 21

st

century.

Health and medical advances.

Good morning, we are glad to see you all here in our nice hall. Today our meeting is devoted to

questions that worry all of us. What will the life be in the 21

st

century? Will it be possible to

prolong human life? What health and medical advances will help us to do it? Does our

health depend only on medical researches or we are able to be healthy without it? What

should be do to be healthy?

As I know, all of you have read a lot about last medical researches and achievements. So, today

we’ll try to find answers to all these questions. Please share your opinions. We invite all our

guests to participate.

And the first question is – What medical and health advances have you read about? What

impressed you most? (Probable answers – cloning? Genetic engineering? Modified plants and

animals? Long life? Healthy way of life (smoking, alcohol)? Inserting computer chips.(Write

them on the blackboard)

To start with, I’d like you to listen to a short interview with Dr. Cartright.

The first thing I’d like to tell that our knowledge of the human genome will radically change

medicine in the next thirty years. There’s no doubt that it will help us cure all sorts of illnesses,

from heart disease to cancer. I’m fairly optimistic about that…

Without going into too many technical details, we have already identified a lot of genes that

cause diseases. And this is very important, because if we can manipulate a person’s genes before

he or she is born, we could eliminate the possibility of that person ever getting diseases like

certain kinds of cancer and heart disease have important hereditary components…

What do you think about it? (pupils’ answers)

As for me I think it’s necessary to develop in order to prevent hereditary illnesses.

And the next very controversionaal question is cloning. All of you have heard about sheep

Dolly which was cloned with the help of genetic engineering. What do you know about it?

Cloning is used to make exact copies of living plants and animals. As you know it was in science

fiction for years.

Is cloning necessary for treating diseases?

Do you want to have a clone of yourself (yes/no)?

Speaking about cloning I think it will be acceptable to mention one more thing – using

computer chips in order to increase brain power. You’ve heard about it, you saw it in films.

What is your attitude to computer brains?

Would you like to insert a computer chip to become really clever and why?

If you had a chance to insert such thing in your brain to improve 2 of your personal qualities,

what qualitie would you choose? Is it possible to improve them without scientific help?

What perspectives will be opened before you?

We discussed predictions of human abilities, but the question is : Should we modify plants

and animals?

What’s the reason of that?

Are modified fruit and vegetables really healthy?

Where can it be used?

Will you personally eat such food?

All things considered, can we speak about long life of future generations. Will all these

medical researches help people to live longer?

Would you like to live longer?

What can make your life longer (special food, Exercises…)?

Do you really try to save your life and make it longer?

Speaking about healthy way we should mention one serious problem that our society faces

our days – smoking. It is really a problem.

What do you think about it? Is it good/bad for you and your friends?

Why do so many young people smoke nowadays? Do you have friends who smoke?

If yes, have you ever tried to stop them?

Should smoking be banned?

Are there any other ways to reduce the amount of smokers?

It’s time to sum up our “ hot” discussion. We are for the development of our medicine, but

we should develop ourselves. On the one hand it’s necessary to use medical, scientific

achievements.

On the other hand – sport, healthy food, no smoking, no alcohol. Healthy way of life – our

choice!!!