Unit 2 Robots Robots warming up reading (浙江省绍兴市)

课件22张PPT。robotsWhat can robots do?
2. What do you think of the idea that you are going to live alone with a robot? Satisfaction Guaranteed
Larry Belmont---
Claire-----
Tony----
Gladys Claffern------employed in a company
that makes robotsLarry’s wife, a housewifethe robota woman that Claire
enviesCharacters in the story:Mini profile of the robotTonymale more like
a humantall, handsome, smooth hair
deep voice, unchanged
facial expressiona household robotcook breakfast
help Claire make herself smarter
help Claire make her home more elegant
help hold a party
express his love to her
Why did Tony do so?What do you think of the robot Tony?
Why would he have to be rebuilt?
What can we learn from it?
How did Claire feel during her three
weeks’ stay with Tony?At the very beginninggraduallyIn the jewellery shopFell off the laddersth was said about
her and TonyAsked if she needed
help dressingFirst saw Tonyrealized Tony
was a machinedislike…felt alarmedfelt embarrassed/ disturbed…trustedcalled him a dearfelt the warmth of his bodylooked at his fingers …reached for … was amazeda sweet victory to be enviedcriedCan you use one or two sentences to describe the feeling of Claire?
Can you find out any other sentences that show that she kept forgetting and remembering that Tony was a robot?Discussion:How would you feel if
you had a robot like
Tony in your house ?试验、考验
感到害怕
提升某人的社会地位
一堆书
陪伴某人去…
在柜台处
给….打电话
回转，转身
她脸上惊讶的表情
因为生气而哭泣
从梯子上掉下来
钟敲了八下。try out
feel alarmed/ frightened
improve one’s social position
a pile of books
accompany sb to
at the counter
ring sb up
turn around
the surprised look on her face
weep with anger
fall off the ladder
The clock struck eight.不管，别理…
保护人类免遭伤害
失败感
把…放在一边，保留
总共
一定做
输血
获得化学的硕士学位
他写作方面的天赋
在他的一生中
以…最为著名leave …alone
protect human beings from harm
a sense of failure
set aside
in all
be bound to do
a blood transfusion
gain/ get a master’s degree
in chemistry
his talent for writing
throughout his life
be best known for怀第三个孩子
开糖果店
帮助某人摆脱困境
认真、严肃对待…
希望某人干…
希望干…
科幻小说
围围裙
帮某人一个忙
确切地说
对…同情
感到尴尬
be pregnant with the third child
run a candy store
help sb out
take …seriously
desire sb to do
desire to do / have a desire for
science fiction
wear an apron
do sb a favor
or rather
feel sympathy for
feel embarrassed那些女士是多么羡慕Claire.
我希望你能来看我啊。
当小偷刚要伸手去拿钱时，警察闯了进来。
We are very excited because a scientist and
writer _______ coming to have a face-to face talk
with us.How the women envied Claire!
Claire became the envy of those women.I desired you to come to see me.
I desired that you come to see me.
I hoped that you came to see me.The thief was about to reach for the money
when the police broke in.is
Asimov had both an extraordinary imagination that gave him the ability to explore future worlds and an amazing mind with which he searched for explanations of everything, in the present and the past.
Among his most famous works of science fiction, one for which he won an award was the Foundation trilogy, three novels about the death and rebirth of a great empire in a galaxy of the future.(
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