课件24张PPT。Listening and reading taskListening on Page 54 Vacuum
cleanerIt can move from room to room cleaning your house. You can programme it so that it cleans when you're away and you can control what it's doing from your computer at the office.Personal robot called
"PaPeRo"
It understands 650 phrases, speaks more than 3,000. It can recognize different people. It can check your email. It can help children do research on the Internet for their homework, talk to them about their day at school and play games.Tiny
helicopterIt will be used to fly into dangerous areas.
For example, it can fly into a house that's been destroyed by an earthquake and check if anyone's inside.Walking chairIt helps people who can't walk to go up and down stairs.Reading task Three decades of war in Cambodia have left scars in many forms throughout the country. Unfortunately, one of the most lasting legacies of the conflicts continues to claim new victims daily. Read this piece of news about landmines. In most cases, even the soldiers who planted the mines did not record where they were placed. Now, Cambodia has one of the highest rates of physical disability of any countries in the world. At the current rate of progress, it may take as many as 100 years to clear all the mines in Cambodia, and the UN estimates that with current technology, it will take nearly 1,100 years to clear all the mines in the world. This is the situation in Cambodia.Here and there are the mine signs. In spite of so many warning signs, there are still many victims.Robots in the fight against landmines.Pre-reading1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. Who wrote the article?
3. What do the three pictures show you?4. Where is research being done on robots that can find landmines?
5. In which two countries might the robots be used?Careful readingAnswer key for Exercise 2:Introduction: the damage landmines 26,000 people killed or badly injured each year
100 million buried in 60 countries
Most victims are innocent peopleSuggested answers to Exercise 3:The problem of landminesRobots can help find traditional minesEach year 100,00 removed
Each year 2,000,000 buried
Difficult and dangerous to removeMuch safer in the hunt for landmines
Faster at finding landmines
Research at Chiba UniversityRobots can find plastic minesWorld opinion turned against landmines in the 19990s Experimental robots in production
To use radar to locate mines
To identify types of mines Agreement in Ottawa, Canada to stop the manufacture and use of landmines
Still a lot of work to be done