课件22张PPT。Period 1 Warming
up and Reading IUnit 2 RobotsDo you know any story or novel or film whose hero (heroine) is a robot?
If you do, can you say something about them?DiscussionWarming up→Show some parts of the film “I, ROBOT” Enjoy the following pictures of some robots, and try to tell what is a robot.What is a robot?A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans.BrainstormingWhat can a robot do?Do you think it is possible for a robot to :think for itself
have feelings
have its own needs and desires
look and feel like a human being?Pre-reading ReadingReading I –scanning Read through the passage and then answer the following questions:1.What is the text mainly about?
2.What did the robot called Tony look like?What is the text mainly about?
2.What did the robot called Tony look like?It is mainly about how a robot used for housework was tested out in a family.He looked like a tall and handsome man, speaking in a deep voice, with smooth black hair and his facial expression unchanged.Decide whether the following statements are true or false, and try to find the sentence in the story to support your answers:Larry was going to be away from home so he hired a robot to accompany his wife Claire.
Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at last.
3. Tony could understand Claire when she said she was not clever.Reading II-skimming FTT4. Tony was eager to help Claire. He scanned quite a lot of books in the library, but he could find no ways out.
5.It was Claire that first decided to invite Gladys and her friends to her house.
6.Claire’s guests were filled with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed.
7.Claire was very happy to find that Gladys envied her.
8. The company was satisfied with Tony’s report because he had successfully made a woman fall in love with him.FFTTFIn groups, list Tony’s characteristics that were similar to those of a human being and different from those of a human being.CharacteristicsPhysical MentalEmotional SimilarDifferentReading III- Detail reading CharacteristicsSimilarDifferentPhysical(1)Looks like_______________.
(2)Body and skin are_____. (3)Hair and fingernails_____________. (4)Voice like__________.(1)Facial expressions____________. (2)______________________ (She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time)
warmrealistica human’snever changeCharacteristicsSimilarDifferentMentalAble to ______________and predictions. Able to ___________and follow it through. Has good ______________ skills
Behaviour not_____________ (Tony asked Claire whether she needed help dressing)make suggestionsmake a plancommunicationappropriateCharacteristicsSimilarDifferentEmotionalCan show __________ for Claire and can give ___________ to her.sympathyencouragementRole Play Work together with your
partner, imagine that
one is Tony,the other
is Claire to make
a dialogue.