模块七 unit 2 robots reading period 1

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课件38张PPT。Period 1&2 Warming
up and Reading IUnit 2 RobotsThere are many types of robots
and they can do different work.
Can you name some of them?What is a robot?
Robots are ____________ and ________ by a computer.programmedcontrolledEntertainment
robotsIndustrial robots 工业机器人Domestic robots家用机器人The robot which can play with children.In groups of four, make a list of any science fiction literature, films, video games, TV shows and cartoons you know that include robots as characters.I robot a film which is adapted from a famous novel whose hero (heroine) is a robotA cartoon programmHave you ever seen a film named “Robots(机器人历险记)”?What can robots do?RobotsPlay with humantake care of
humanrescue workHouseworkAnd so on…Now read a story about a robot, written by a science fiction writer.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?ReadingSatisfaction GuaranteedLarry Belmont
Claire
Tony
Gladys ClaffernCharacters in the story:---- Larry’s wife, a housewife---- the robot ---- employed in a company that makes robots---- a woman that Claire enviesScanning1.Why did Larry put Tony into his
family?
2.What did the robot called Tony
look like?
Because he wanted to test out how a robot used for housework 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.We have many different kinds
of robots in our daily life.
Skeleton 人体骨架pencilMars 战神,战士Reading III-detailed reading (6m)Finish the following chart:At the first sight of Tony, Claire was ___________.When Tony offered to help her dressing, Claire ____________.alarmedfelt embarrassedshare emotion
trust Tony→help dressing
embarrassed (looked so human) →Tony gave some ideas/library
amazed / absurd→shopping / “dear”
awful →suggested/ fell off
screamed →didn’t want to leave/folded
cried out →another woman/ whispering
be envied →leave me alone
cried all night→rebuild
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.Task 2 -skimming (5m)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.FFTTF1. Why did Claire feel alarmed at the sight of Tony?
A. Because he was a robot.
B. Because she did’t like him.
C. Because he was more like a being than a machine.
D. Because he never changed his facial expressions.Detailed reading2. The robot Tony helped Claire to realize her dreams by______.
A. making her home elegant
B. giving her a new haircut and changing the
make-up she wore D. all the above
C. giving her advice on her dresses
3. As a result, the experiment shows_______.
A. Claire and Tony fell in love with each other
B. Tony had to be rebuilt D. Both A and B
C. Tony was angry with his designer 4. All the following statements are true except____.
Tony tried to please Claire
Claire tried to displease Tony
Tony managed to protect Claire
Gladys admired Claire for her Tony
5. We can infer from the passage that_____.
Claire liked Tony but feared him
Claire cried because Tony made her angry
Claire forgot Tony as soon as Tony left her
Tony had no feelings as human being.
Discussion1. Do you think it needs to rebuild Tony, why or why not?2. How would you feel if you had a robot like Tony in your house?Fourth reading
Answer the questions on page 12.Tony prevented Claire from being harmed by making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.1Why did Tony open the curtains?(end)
2What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and Claire together so that she would b envied by the women guests. 3. Why should Tony be rebuilt?
4.How would you feel if you had a robot like Tony in your house
Because the company felt that it (the company ) could not have women falling in love with a robot.give your own answers.5. Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house. What sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that he was a machine? 1 How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine.
2 He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of day.
3 Then she remembered---Tony was just a machine. She shouted ”Leave me alone” and ran to her bed. In 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 IV-discussion (10m)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.sympathyencouragement HomeworkDifficult sentences …robots that carry out jobs in the house, and entertainment robots.
As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern.
By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Cladys thought she was having an affair.
Tony told her and he suggested that she invite Gladys and her friends to the house the night before he was to leave and Larry was to return.
The guests would be arriving soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room.6. … he felt more than just the desire to please her.
7. It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains on the front window.
8. He had prevented Claire from harming herself through her own sense of failure.
9. But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt- you cannot have women falling in love with machines.The robot Tony helped Claire to realize her dreams by :Making her home elegant.Giving her a new haircut and changing the makeup she wore.Giving her advice on her dresses.