Unit 7 Will people have robots? Section B Reading 公开课课件（共43张PPT）

SectionＢ
Reading
Unit 7
Will people have robots?

一、选择方框中的单词或词组并用其正确形式填空。



1．The United States built(建立) a many years ago.
2．Do you think people will fly to the moon?
3．He is the first Chinese ．
4．My mother me to the park last Sunday.
5．—Where did your parents go last weekend?
—They to Beijing on vacation.
space station
rockets
astronaut
took
flew
astronaut，space station，fly，take，rocket
课前检测
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Do you know about robots ?

What do the robots look like?

What can the robots do?
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机器人的应用
工业
汽车生产线上的焊接机器人
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农业
草坪割草机器人

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军事
地面侦察排雷和攻击。
美国 “剑” 军用机器人
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医疗
高精度和高难度的外科手术

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robot一词的由来
1. 该词来源于1920年捷克的一个反映科幻内容的话剧。剧中的一个人物名叫robota(捷克文，意为苦力，奴隶），一个形状像人的机器，可以听从人的命令做各种工作。
2.英文robot是从robota衍生而来的。
3.我国将robot翻译为机器人，给人一种错觉，机器人一定具有人的外形。其实，应该为具有人的某种的功能的机器。


Title:
Do you think you will have your own robot?
What will you read about in the passage?




Reading strategy(阅读技巧):
阅读的时候，先通过看标题和图片，预计一下
你要读到的内容。这能帮助你准备获得更多的信息。

When we watch movies about the future, we sometimes see robots. They are usually like human servants. They help with the housework and do jobs like working in dirty or dangerous places.

Guess new words through word-building
(根据构词法猜测词义 ).
house+workwork done in a house (cleaning, cooking, washing,etc)
danger+ous
adj. 危险的
Pre-reading

1、human n.
2、scientist n.
3、dangerous adj.
4、snake n.
5、shape n.
6、possible adj.
7、servant n.
8、believe v.
9、disagree v.
10、fall v.
11、already adv.












1、人类
2、科学家
3、危险的
4、蛇
5、形状
6、可能的
7、仆人
8、相信
9、不同意
10、跌落
11、已经


in the future
hundreds of

the same as…


get bored


look for


将来
数以百计的
和……一样
厌烦
寻找
New words and expressions
When we watch the movies about the future, we sometimes see robots.

The robots have many different shapes.
What can robots do?
They can help with the housework.
They can dance.
They are fun to watch.
They can also do jobs like working in
dirty or dangerous places.
Some robots look like snakes.
After an earthquake and buildings fall down with people inside, they could help look for people under the building.
This was not possible 20 years ago.
This was impossible 20 years ago.
impossible
possible
What do they look like?
They look like humans.
It will be difficult to make them really think like a human.
What does it look like?
It looks like a dog.
It will look after the owner’s house.
It looks like a cat.
It will catch the mouse and go fishing.
Today there are already robots working in factories.
Some can help to build cars.
They can do simple jobs over and over again and will never get bored.
Some robots in Japan can walk and dance.
Some robots in India can help look for people under the buildings.
Do you think you will have your own robot?
Yes, I do. I hope I will have my own robot. It will help me wash clothes.
Cook delicious food for me
Do the dishes for me
Tidy the room for me
Wake me up on time
Send me to school
They are like our servants.
仆人
What will robots do for us
in the future?
Let’s make predictions
Some scientists believe that robots will even be able to talk like humans in 20 to 50 years.
Some scientists believe that although we can make robots move like people, it will be difficult to make them really think like a human.
Para.1 Will robots think like humans in the future?
Para.2 What will robots be like in the future?
Para.3 What can robots do today?
Para.4 What are robots like in movies?
Reading
2b
Read the article and match each paragraph with the question it discusses.
What do the robots do in the movies about the future?

Will the robots be able to think really like a human?

Many scientists think that robots never be able to wake up and know where they are. (T/F)
How long will it take to have more robots?


They help with the housework and do jobs like working in dirty or dangerous places.
No, they won’t.
It will take hundreds of years.
5. What kind of job can a snake robot do?
If buildings fall down with people inside,
it could help look for people under the
buildings.
2c Read the article again quickly. complete the
sentences about what robots can do now.
1.Robots can build in factories.
2.They can do jobs many times and
not get bored.
3.Some can and .
4. Some can help people under
.
cars
simple
walk dance
look for
the buildings
Some robots are very human-like. They can walk and _________ like people. Some scientists think that in the future they will _________ robots more like humans. This may not _________ in the near future, but at some point, robots
will even be able to _________ like people.
2d Fill in the blanks in this paragraph with
words from the article.

dance
make
possible
talk
However, some scientists . James White believes that robots won’t be able to do the _________ things as us. For example, he thinks that robots will
_________ be able to wake up and know where they are. Which side do you _________ with?
same
never
agree
2e what kinds animals might robots look like in
the future? What do you think these robots
will be able to do? Write your ideas and
discuss them with your partner.





I think some future robots might look like
butterflies. They will be able to sing and dance.
When I am sad, they can try their best to make
me happy. And when I want to go shopping, they
can take me to the mall,(购物广场) so that I will
never stand the crowded street. In my life,
it gives me a lot of help.
Language Points
agree是动词，意为“同意、赞同、应允”，其反义词为disagree。
?I want to join the basketball club, but my aprents don't agree with me.
我想加入篮球俱乐部，但是我父母不同意。
常用结构有：
1.agree with sb. 同意某人的意见
2.agree to do sth 同意做某事
3.agree+（that）从句 同意……
1.agree的用法
hundreds of 意为“许多，大量”。当hundred，thousand，million等数词前面有数词修饰，表示具体的数字时用单数；表示非具体的数字时常用复数，且其后还要和of一起连用。
2.hundred的用法
即学活用
There are students in our school.
A.hundreds B.hundreds of C. hundred of
B
3.There are already robots working in factories.
There be sb.(sth.) doing sth.
有某人（物）正在做某事。
即学活用
There are some students （play）basketball on the playground.

playing
课后检测
一、根据句意用所给词的适当形式填空。
1．Now many robots look like (human)．
2．Don't touch the machine. It's (danger)．
3．There are a lot of (factory) near my house.
4．He (believe) that he will win the game.
5．After doing my homework for hours，I felt (bore)．

humans
factories
believes
bored
dangerous
二、根据句意用方框中词组的适当形式填空。



6．He works in actory I do.
7．To remember these new words，I read them ．
8．You your father because you both have a big nose.
9．He is lazy.He never the housework at home.
10． students came to the playground to watch the basketball match.

the same
as
over and over
look like
help with，over and over again，hundreds of，look like，the same as
helps with
Hundreds of
三、单项选择。
11．The students often help the old people ____ the housework.
A．with B．to C．at D．for
12．—Why does the coat look ____ small on him?
—Because he was ________ a big body.
A．so；such B．so；so
C．such；such D．such；so
13．Did you know that the earth is home to ____ animals?
A．hundred B．hundreds
C．hundreds of D．hundred of
14．If you see the film Private Tailor，it will make you ____．
A．laugh B．to laugh C．laughing D．laugh
15．There are some boys ____ in the river.
A．swim B．to swim C．swimming D．swam
A
A
C
A
C
四、根据汉语意思完成下列句子。
16．昨天我花了20分钟坐公共汽车上学。
Yesterday it me twenty minutes to a bus to school.
17．你应该反复记单词。
You should remember the words and ．
18．现在已经有很多机器人在工厂工作。
Today there are many in ．
19．在一些电影中，机器人看起来像人类的仆人。
In some movies，robots ．
20．人们不喜欢做这样的工作，而且会觉得乏味。
People don't like to do jobs and will ．
took
take
over
over again
already
robots
factories
look ike human servants
such
feel bored
Thank You!