课件18张PPT。Unit 2
Robots 生活机器人消防机器人 工业机器人战争机器人 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?Reading
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writer: Isaac AsimovLarry 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 enviesscanningClaire didn’t like the idea (about the robot) at the beginning but she agreed to it at last.
When Tony, the robot, offered to help dressing, Claire was pleased to accept it. But she thought it was surprising for a robot to be so human.
Tony could understand Claire when she said she was not clever.
It was Claire that first decided to invite Gladys and her friends to her house.
The company was satisfied with Tony’s report because he had successfully made a woman fall in love with him.TFFTFWhat is the text mainly about?
It is mainly about how____________ used
for ___________was tested out in a ______.
a robothouseworkfamilyBefore he arrivedWhen he arrivedWhen he offered to help her dressWhen he offered to help her improve her house and herselfWhen he helped her with the salesmanWhen she fell off a ladder and caught by TonyWhen she heard …She remembered Tony was just a machineRead the text carefully and fill in the form.How Claire’s emotion developedrefuseaccepttrustproudlovesad1. 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 human being than a machine.
D. Because he never changed his facial expressions.Choose the best answer2. 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
C. giving her advice on her dresses
D. all the above
3. As a result, the experiment shows_______.
A. Claire and Tony fell in love with each other
B. Tony had to be rebuilt
C. Tony was angry with his designer
D. Both A and B
Why should Tony be rebuilt?
2. Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and
Claire together so that she would be envied
by the women guests and also let others know there was no risk to Claire’s marriage.
Because Tony is a robot,we cannot have women falling in love with machines. CharacteristicsSimilarDifferentPhysical(1)Looks like_______________.
(2)Body and skin are_____.
(3)Hair and fingernails are _________.
(4)Voice is 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.
2) Able to ___________and follow it through.
3) Has good ______________ skills
Behaviour not_____________ (Tony asked Claire whether she needed help dressing)make suggestionsmake a plancommunicationappropriate
