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Séquence 11 · Dr Jekyll's experiment: science without limits?

Should scientists be free to experiment on human nature?

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Les mots importants

third conditionalethics vocabularyduality, the doublegiving recommendations: should, ought to, it is essential that

Ressources de la séquence

Les notions, les repères et les pistes pour aller plus loin, utiles pour toutes les séances.

Les notions à maîtriser

Third conditional
Imaginary past: If Jekyll had stopped, he would have survived.
Ethics
Thinking about what is right or wrong; in science, an ethics committee protects people.
The double
A literary figure: a second self, often the dark side of a character.

Repères

DateÉvénement
1886Publication of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (January).
1947Nuremberg Code: rules for medical experiments on humans.
1964Declaration of Helsinki on medical research ethics.

Pour aller plus loin

Sources et bibliographie

Mon parcours : je choisis mon rythme

Séance 1 · Better humans?

75 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

Should we use science to improve human beings?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Expressing opinion and doubt

To give an opinion: I'm convinced that / I doubt that / It is questionable whether. Vocabulary: enhancement (improvement), side effect, consent, to tamper with (to change something dangerously).

Document 1 · Three possible futures

Texts written by the teacher.

A memory pill. A company says its pill helps students remember twice as much. Side effects are not yet known.

Smart implants. A tiny chip in the brain could help people with paralysis move a computer cursor. Some fear it could one day be used to control thoughts.

Gene editing. Scientists can now modify genes to cure some diseases. But should parents be allowed to choose their children's characteristics?

Source : teacher's synthesis.

Pour bien lire ce document :

paralysis: inability to move; gene: a part of DNA that carries a characteristic.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. What is the problem with the memory pill?
  2. What can brain implants do for some people?
  3. Which ethical question does gene editing raise?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Complete with the right expression.

  1. I'm ___ that medicine must cure, not create super-humans. (sure)
  2. I ___ that a pill can make us cleverer. (not believe)
  3. Patients must give their ___ before an experiment.
  4. Every new drug can have ___ effects.

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (spoken)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Record 1 minute 30: choose one of the three futures and give your opinion with arguments. Sentence starters: I'm convinced that… / However, I doubt that… / It is questionable whether….

Ce qui est attendu (8 pts) : Production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

enhancementside

Human ___________ raises ethical questions: consent, ______ effects, control.

Séance 2 · « Man is not truly one, but truly two »

75 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

What does Jekyll discover, and why does it destroy him?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Reading a confession

Jekyll's confession is written in the first person, after the events. He explains his motive (to separate good and evil) and his fall: the potion frees only his evil side, Hyde. Notice the vocabulary of duality (one / two, both) and of pleasure (delighted me like wine).

Document 1 · R. L. Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde, « Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case » (extracts)

Novella, 1886 (public domain).

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

[…] I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 (text on Wikisource).

Pour bien lire ce document :

steadily: regularly; doomed: condemned; shipwreck: destruction of a ship, here of a life; wicked: evil; tenfold: ten times; braced: excited.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read and answer.

  1. What truth does Jekyll discover?
  2. Which metaphor describes the result of his discovery?
  3. How does he feel after the first transformation?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Write third conditional sentences.

  1. He drank the potion. He became Hyde.
  2. He enjoyed the freedom. He did it again.
  3. Nobody controlled his research.
  4. He told nobody.

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (written)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Write 120 to 150 words: Jekyll writes a last letter to a young scientist. What advice does he give? Sentence starters: If I had known… / Never forget that… / You ought to….

Ce qui est attendu (8 pts) : Production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

dualityhave

Jekyll discovers the _______ of man; if he had stopped, he would ______ survived.

Séance 3 · Ethics committee report

75 min

Séance approfondie : cours développé, documents sourcés, activités exigeantes avec coups de pouce.

La question du jour

How can society decide if an experiment is acceptable?

Mon plan de travail

Le cours à lire · Writing a report

A report has headings: Purpose, Benefits, Risks, Recommendation. The tone is neutral; use the passive and modals: It is recommended that…; the trial should be limited to…; volunteers must give their consent.

Document 1 · Model report (extract)

Model text written by the teacher.

Purpose. This report examines a project to test a memory pill on adult volunteers. Benefits. It could help patients with memory loss. Risks. Long-term side effects are unknown; healthy students might feel pressure to take it. Recommendation. The trial should be limited to patients, and every volunteer must give informed consent.

Source : teacher's model text.

Pour bien lire ce document :

informed consent: an agreement given after receiving full information.

Activité 1 · Understand

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Documents

Consigne :

Read the model and answer.

  1. Who would take part in the trial?
  2. Name one risk.
  3. What is recommended?

Ce qui est attendu (5 pts) : Reading

Activité 2 · Practise

15 min
Essentiel

Supports : Lesson

Consigne :

Rewrite in the neutral style of a report.

  1. We think you should stop.
  2. People must agree first.
  3. Maybe it is dangerous.
  4. Don't test it on children.

Ce qui est attendu (7 pts) : Language

Activité 3 · Produce (written)

25 min
Travail à rendre

Supports : Lesson, documents

Consigne :

Write an ethics committee report (130 to 150 words) about one of the three futures of session 1. Sentence starters: The purpose of this report is… / The main risks are… / We recommend that….

Ce qui est attendu (8 pts) : Production

Trace écrite · document à compléter (papier ou ENT)

Complète la trace écrite avec les mots de la banque, puis recopie-la dans ton cahier.

recommendationrisks

A report has four parts: purpose, benefits, ______ and ______________.

Fiche à trous · je complète

Complète le texte avec les mots de la banque (sur papier ou dans le document de l'ENT).

1886committeehavetwo

Stevenson published *Jekyll and Hyde* in ______.

Jekyll discovers that « man is not truly one, but truly ______ ».

An ethics _________ decides if an experiment is acceptable.

Third conditional: if + past perfect, would ______ + past participle.

Ce que j'ai appris

Les 3 idées que je retiens :
Une phrase en anglais que je veux retenir :
Ce qui reste difficile pour moi / ma question pour le professeur :