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Unit 5 To Lie or Not to
Lie
—The Doctor’s Dilemma
Sissela Bok
Teacher:
xxx
Course:
College
English (Intensive Reading Book 4)
Students:
Sophomores of non-
English majors in the 2nd semester.
Teaching Time:
4 hours
Teaching Objectives:
By the
end of the lesson, the students should be able to
1. grasp the text
content,
text structure, basic vocabularies and required
grammar
points of the
section.
2. know the reading strategy
of guessing new words
3.
grasp the main idea and structure of the text.
4. speak out their opinions
on whether a doctor should be honest or not to a
patient
on the patient’s true
disease
.
Important
Points:
suffixes
-----ary, -ory
compound adjectives: n.+a.
also, as well, too
Difficult Points:
the use of
subordinate clauses
Teaching
Approaches:
Communicative Teaching
Approach
Grammar-translation Method
Task-Based
Language Teaching
Teaching Procedures:
I. Pre-reading Activities
Step 1.
Greetings and
introductory remarks
Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen. Nice to meet all of you here
today. First of
all, please allow me to
introduce myself. My name is xxx, I graduated from
xxx last
June as a post graduate
specializing in translation. In my spare time, I
like reading,
singing and playing
badminton. I
’
m easygoing,
outgoing and optimistic. And
I
’
m also
armed
with another quality: honesty.
When I
was in primary school, I learnt the story of
“the
wolf is
coming
”
which tells
me that to lie may be dangerous. In
addition, I have been told time and time again by
both our parents and teachers that
honesty is the best policy. To my mind, honesty,
as
a traditional Chinese virtue, is of
great significance even in
today
’
s society. Then in
your opinion,
Step 2.
Warm-up
questions
1. Is it ever
right to tell a lie? Have you ever lied to anyone
for good purposes?
2. If there were
something unpleasant happened to you,
let
’
s say, one of your
friends
knew that you failed in the
English examination just before the spring
festival, would
you want to be told the
truth or kept in the dark?(I want to be to the
truth, so that I can
make plans about
the revisions as
early
as
possible and pass
it next
time.
If
I
were
kept in
the dark, I would always think about it and in the
end when it it time for the
make-up
test, I might fail again for I did no
preparation.)
3. Suppose you were a
doctor, and now you were faced with a patient who
is seriously
ill, would you lie to him?
Why? (No, it
’
s better to
have a bad ending than worrying all
the
time without knowing the truth. After informing
the patient of the true condition,
I
’
ll try my best
to console him and help him)
4. Suppose
you were the patient and went to see a doctor, do
you want to be told the
truth
about
your
disease?
Why?
(Yes,
I
could
make
decisions
about
the
end
of
my
life.)
Different
people
may
hold
different
views
when
answering
these
questions.
In
reality, when treating
seriously ill patients, many doctors think that it
is best not to tell
them the
truth
about their condition.
These doctors
sincerely
believe that
they
have
good reason to tell lies for the
patients
’
benefits. However,
there are still some people
holding
contrary ideas. The American author, Sissela Bok
is among them.
Today
we
’
ll study unit 5
To Lie or Not to Lie
—The
Doctor’s Dilemma
, written by Sissela
Bok.
In this article, she
takes a different view on the issue.
She gives several reasons why patients,
esp. those who are dying should be told the
truth. She also discusses the great
harm
doctors’
lies do not
only to their patients, but
also to the
doctors themselves and to the entire medical
profession.
Step 3.
Group work
Divide the class into 2 groups. And let
the Ss do the silent reading on the text
(Group 1)
Doctors’
reasons for telling
lies
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