SESSION 3: EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION AND FINAL TASK
2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION
2.1 NOBEL PRIZE: Which is the most important Nobel Prize for you, rate them from more important to less important:
- Peace
- Medicine
- Literature
- Economics
- Physics
2.3 IVF DISCUSSION: Here are some questions you can try asking yourself before you come to our discussion on Wednesday:
a. What did you think when you read the headline?
b. Did you know about the IVF Nobel award?
c. Do you think a Nobel Prize for Medicine is a good prize?
d. Did you expect the Vatican´s point of view on the IVF Nobel award?
e. Do you think the Vatican is right to be angry over this?
f. What do you know about IVF?
g. What would infertile couples think about the Vatican´s views?
h. Is joy and happiness at the birth of a baby more important than how it was created?
i. Do you think religions should get more up to date in certain social issues, or are the old teachings the best?
j. Are you also horrified at labs freezing embryos?
k. Do you think the "incomprehensible situations" mentioned in the text are as bad as the Vatican suggests?
l. Do you think IVF has to do with the new family structures in society? How?
m.What do you think of IVF as a scientific advance?
n. Should there be limits to where IVF should go next (e.g. cloning, etc.)?
o. What did the world think of the first ever "test-tube baby"?
p. Is IVF morally wrong?
q. What do you think Louise Brown thinks of the Vatican´s views?
r. Would you ever consider IVF if you couldn´t have children?
s. Do you think Dr Edwards deserves the Prize?
PREPARING A DISCUSSION IS FUNDAMENTAL:
THIS MUST BE DONE IN TWO DIRECTIONS:
FIRST, YOU NEED TO LEARN NEW VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO USE FOR THE DISCUSSION.
SECONDLY, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE THE TOPIC BY LOOKING UP INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET, BOOKS, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS.
THIS WAY YOU WILL FEEL MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL HAVE MUCH MORE TO TALK ABOUT.
FINAL TASK:
HERE IS ONE FINAL TASK THAT YOU MAY DO IN ORDER TO COVER THE FOUR SKILLS YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON WHEN LEARNING A LANGUAGE: LISTENING, READING, SPEAKING AND WRITING.
Write a composition and leave it in the blog as a comment to Session 3, I will edit it in the blog so that everybody can learn from other people´s opinions. Choose one of these two options:
- 'Infertile couples should think of adoption as an alternative to IVF.' Express your opinion.
- Consider all the positive and negative advances IVF brings to humanity.
Everything in this life seems to have bittersweet aspects. IVF is not very different, as part of science evolution, it can bring infertile couples much happiness since it makes possible that these couples have children instead of feeling depressed by their sterility. Up to here, IVF can be considered as a very positive advance but it creates new questions to solve.
ReplyDeleteSo, for example, why to use scientific advances to bring new children to life when there a lot of them shared around the world, many of them needed of a family?
Other aspect that must be taken into account is the thin line existing between IVF and genetic alteration when the latter can cause a substantial change in the future of the humanity, healing illnesses so far considered as incurable or selecting how we want our children to be.
As other changes in human life, IVF must be used with intelligence and Governments have to draw rules up in order to avoid bad practices.
The truth is that I'm not sure of having a very elaborate opinion on the subject.
ReplyDeleteFor what I'm doing a series of questions such as: IVF anyone hurt? Having a child with or without IVF could harm the baby?
I do not believe that IVF can be a source of moral problems but maybe, it might give rise to ethical problems. As I can understand, ethics is a personal matter, so people should be free to make their decisions and take, obviously, the consequences.
On the other hand, some people can be involved in some cases of IVF lending its body. They should do so voluntarily, although they could get some benefit for that.
In conclusion, I think that everybody should decide what they believe that it is better for them without hurting no one else.
The truth is that I'm not sure of having a very elaborate opinion on the subject.
ReplyDeleteFor what I'm doing a series of questions such as: IVF anyone hurt? Having a child with or without IVF could harm the baby?
I do not believe that IVF can be a source of moral problems but maybe, it might give rise to ethical problems. As I can understand, ethics is a personal matter, so people should be free to make their decisions and take, obviously, the consequences.
On the other hand, some people can be involved in some cases of IVF lending its body. They should do so voluntarily, although they could get some benefit for that.
In conclusion, I think that everybody should decide what they believe that it is better for them without hurting no one else.
Consider all the positive and negative advantages IVF brings to humanity?
ReplyDeleteTechnology provides us with what we are lack of. Why not taking it?
IVF is one of the answers to millions of couples who cannot have children naturally. Our actual style of life does not help to procreation. It is due to stress or the desire of having children only when we have a comfortable situation. Nearly getting to menopause.
A test tube baby has considerable disadvantages such as the risk of multiple pregnancies. The treatment is very expensive or the most controversial one, IVF produces the destruction of millions of human embryos.
But, what are these inconvenient when the result is a newborn to be cradle with desire?