Lesson-Plan---大学课程---To-lie-or-not-to-lie.doc

Tianjin Normal University Xinxin LeeTo Lie or Not To Lie- The Doctor s DilemmaSissela Bok. Teaching Objectives: 1. Get Ss to discuss whether a doctor should be honest or not to a patient on the patients true disease. 2. About the text, Ss should grasp the text content, text structure, basic vocabularies, useful expressions and required grammar points of the section.3. About the reading, Ss should know the reading strategy of guessing new words. 4. About the listening, Ss finish the Unit 5 directed by teacher.5. About the writing, Ss should get to know the writing skilla good topic sentence. Teaching Approaches Communicative approach and Computer-Assisted Instruction are to be used in the course of this lesson. 1. Student-centered teaching 2. Task-based learning 3. Activity-based teaching (individual work; group work; class work). Teaching Aids: a multi-media computer system . Students level: Sophomores of non-English majors in the 2nd semester. Teaching Procedures Step 1. Title: a parody (10 minutes)1. To be or not to be. Shakespeare (Hamlet) To lie or not to lie.2. The government of the people, by the people, for the people.John Kennedy The government off the people, buy the people, far the people. Step 2. Warming-up & lead-in (20 minutes)1. Teacher asks Ss to discuss the following questions: 1). When do you tell lies? 2). Do you always believe a doctors diagnosis? A doctor has training in treating the diseases and injuries of human beings. But nobody is perfect and doctors can be wrong. 3). Do you think that a doctor has good reasons to tell lies? Only when he does so for the patients own sake. 4). Would you prefer to be told the truth about a serious illness you had? Why? 2. Background information 1) About Medicine 2) About Doctors Three types of doctors: general practitioners; specialists; researchers Other medical workers: physician; surgeon; dentist; . Goal: To lead up to the topic, get Ss to warm up and arouse their interest in the topic. Step 3. Pre-reading: Look and Guess (class work) (10 minutes) In this activity, Ss are required to look at the title/subtitle and guess what they will read. Step 4. While-reading: Activity 1 Skimming (class work) (20 minutes) Ss are required to go through the whole passage quickly to get the general idea.Goal: To develop Ss reading skill - skimming, that is, how can we get the general idea of a passage as quickly as possible.Activity 2 Scanning (group work) (30 minutes)Make Ss divide the text into 3 parts and get the general idea of every part.PartsParagraphMain Idea11-5Doctors reasons for telling lies.26-9The authors reasons why patients should be told the truth.310-11The author urges that an open debate be held on this issue.Divide the class into 2 groups & Discuss 1. The first group: to go over the first part of the text (par.1-5) and find out the reasons why some doctors tell lies to their seriously ill patients. 2. The second group: to go over the second part of the text (par.6-9) looking for the authors reasons why patients should be told the truth. 3. Discuss the following two questions. 1) Doctors reasons for telling lies. Lies may benefit the patients. Lies may help speed recovery. Telling them the truth of their condition, patients may recover more slowly, or deteriorate faster, perhaps even commit suicide. 2) The authors reasons why patients should be told the truth. Studies show that an overwhelming majority of patients do want to be told the truth and that they feel betrayed when they learn that they have been kept in the dark. Dying patients who are lied to be about their condition cant make decisions about the end of life. Lies also do harm to doctors integrity and their credibility. Activity 3 Teacher explains the text in details. (90 minutes)Paragraph 15: Doctors reasons for telling lies.Paragraph 11. What is the doctors purpose in treating his patient?To cure illness, speed recovery, save life and prolong life as long as possible.2. Can a doctors lie benefit a patient?Well find the answer in the text.3. Should people tell the truth if theyve promised to keep it a secret?In most cases, no. they should uphold the promise of secrecy. 4. Translate the sentence into Chinese. In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs: the need to shelter from brutal news or to uphold a promise of secrecy; to expose corruption or to promote the public interest. Paragraph 21. In this paragraph, the author uses four question marks, What does she want to tell us? She wants to show us the doctors dilemma whether to lie to such a patient or not.2. What is a routine physical checkup?3. If you were this 46-year-old patient, what would you like the doctor to tell you?I want the doctor to tell me the truth because I dont want4. If you were the doctor, would you tell the truth?Paragraph 3-41. What is a self-serving lie?It is a lie which serves for the tellers own interest. For example, a doctor exaggerates the seriousness of the illness so that he can charge more.2. Try to paraphrase the sentence “Ours is a professionas far as possible do no harm”We doctors have been following a principle that as far as we can we must avoid doing any harm to our patients. We should not tell the truth regardless of consequences.Paragraph 51. What is a placebo?2. What does “sound more encouraging than facts warrant” mean?3. How does a doctor distort grave news?4. Paraphrase the sentence and translate it into Chinese.They may prescribe innumerable placebos, sound more encouraging than the facts warrant, and distort grave news, especially to the incurably ill and the dying.Paragraph 69: The authors reasons why patients should be told the truth.Paragraph 61. How do you understand “the illusory naturebe documented”?2. New words & useful expressions: illusory; betray; tolerate; recover; grave;contrary to; cope with;3. Summarize the authors reasons why patients should be told the truth in this paragraph.Paragraph 7- 81. What does “advocates of benevolent deception” mean?2. What is “the autonomy of patients”?3. What are “informed choices”?4. What does “choose to be a patient in the first place” mean?5. How do you understand “we are becoming”?6. What does “kept in the dark” mean?7. New words & useful expressions: advocate; render; befall; distort; keep in the dark; bringto a close;8. Summarize the authors reasons why patients should be told the truth in these two paragraphs.Paragraph 91. What is the difference between integrity and credibility?2. What does “it” refer to in “it contributes to”?3. How can lies injure the entire medical profession?4. New words & useful expressions: integrity; credibility; suspicion; in the long run; 5. Summarize the authors reasons why patients should be told the truth in this paragraph.Paragraph 1011: The author urges that an open debate be held on this issue.Paragraph 101. What is “bills of rights”?2. What are included in the patients bills of rights?3. What maybe alternatives for treatment?4. What does “the most eloquent bill of rights?” mean?Paragraph 111. What issue is there urgent need to debate openly?2. Whom do “practitioners” refer to?3. How do you understand “serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception”?4. Whom does “the public” refer to?5. How do you understand “such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply rooted”?Activity 4 Summarizing (30 minutes)1. Teacher asks Ss to come out the main idea, structure of the text. (10 minutes)2. Teacher summarizes the main idea and structure of the text. (5 minutes) 3. Summary questions and concluding remarks. (15 minutes) 1).What is the doctors dilemma?2).What do many doctors choose to do?3).What are the doctors reasons for telling lies?4).What are some of the disadvantages of a doctors lying?5).What is the authors attitude toward this issue? Why?Step5. Language Points (30 minutes)1. Paraphrase the sentence “But the illusory nature of the benefits such deception is meant to produce is now coming to be documented. ”. 2. Analyze the structure of this sentence. We are becoming increasingly aware of all that can befall patients in the course of their illness when information is denied or distorted. “We are becoming more aware of / that ” is a very common and often-used structure in the argumentative essay writing. For Example: We are becoming more aware of the dangers of excessive smoking. 3. New Word Study Dilemma n. a difficult choice to be made between two possibilities The doctors dilemma is whether he should tell the patient the truth or not. Conceal v. hide, keep secret Tell me the truth, you cant conceal it forever.Dwarf n. a person animal or plant of mach less than the usual size. They are dwarfs besides Shakespeare. vt. cause to appear small by comparison. The newly-built 40-story hotel dwarfs all the other buildings nearby.Distort v. give a false or misleading account of Youve distorted what he said. Tolerate v. allow or endure without protest The workers said they couldnt tolerate the poor working condition any longer. Integrity n. honesty, uprightness A man of integrity can be trusted. Alternative n. a choice between two or more things to be chosen. There are three alternative for his treatment and most doctors are for the first one.4. English & Chinese Phrase Chinese English 造福病人 Bene