(共23张PPT)
Reading
I. What is the white thing?
He is a robot.
2 .Do you know his name?
Baymax.
3 .what can he do?
He can look after people.
Here are some other robots in movies and cartoons.
Let’s guess who they are.
He is a cat robot from the future.
He is very famous around the world.
He can use his magical bag and all kinds of wonderful props?/pr?p/小道具 to help Da Xiong to solve all kinds of difficulties.
Doraemon
He is brave and strong.
He is the most popular now.
He is a hero of many fans.
He can turn himself into a truck.
Optimus Prime
Some day, the earth is full of rubbish. Humans have to leave the earth.
There is a robot.
He can help clean up the waste-covered Earth.
WALL-E
Robots in the movies
He is the first robot to have real feelings like a man.
He loves his “mother”, Monica. But she leaves him.
Later,he is very eager to become a real boy.
David — from Artificial Intelligence (人工智能)
Robots in the movies
In our real world, what can robots do and
what do they look like?
look for people
ride a bike
walk and dance
talk
Functions
Shapes
work in factories
do exercise
play with people
play the piano
humans
dog
cat
huge arms
help with the housework
How to read an article?
What methods do you know?
学法指导：
Skimming（略读）指尽可能快的阅读，迅速地获取文章的大意或主题思想。即抓住文章的大概。
Scanning（查读）是一种从大量的资料中查找某一项具体事实或某一项特定信息的快速阅读方法。即快速定位所需的信息。
Careful reading（细读）用于深入文章细节理解文章内容，需要我们理解重点词句的含义和分析上下文之间的联系等。
1.From the title, can you tell what the passage may talk about.(根据标题，判断文章可能会写什么内容？)
What can we learn from the title and the picture?
A. It’s about a science fiction movie.
B. It’s about the robot scientist James White.
C. It’s about the robots in the future.
Prediction
C
Read the article and match each paragraph with the question it discuss.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Will robots think like humans in the future
What will robots be like in the future?
What can robots do today?
What are robots like in movies?
Tips: reading for the meaning , not for the details.
The first sentence
Careful Reading(细读):
1. What are the robots like in movies?
2. What can the robots do in movies?
Ex.1 Read Para. 1, and answer:
They are usually like human servants(仆人).
They can do the housework and go some dirty or dangerous(危险的) places.
Ex.2 Read Para 2.Fill in the blanks on P54
1.Robots can build ________infactories.
2.They can do ________ jobs many times and never get bored.
cars
simple
Careful Reading(细读):
Ex.3 Read Para3 ,decide T or F .
( )1.Some robots in Japan are fun to watch, because they can dance and walk.
( )2.Scientists are trying to make robots look like animals.
( )3.We can make robots move like people and think like people.
( )4.Scientist James White believes that robots will never be able to do the same things as we can.
T
F
F
T
humans
are trying to
While-reading: Read paragraph 3 again, then fill in the blanks. P54
Scientists are now trying to make robots look like humans and do the same things as we do. Some robots in Japan can walk and dance. They are fun to watch. However, some scientists believe that although we can make robots move like people, it will be difficult to make them really think like a human. For example, scientist James White thinks that robots will never be able to wake up and know where they are. But many scientists disagree with Mr. White. They think that robots will even be able to talk like humans in 25 to 50 years.
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. However, some scientists _________. James White believes that robots will not be able to do the ________things as we can. For example, he thinks that robots will ________ be able to wake up and know where they are.
Which side do you ________with?
dance
make
happen
talk
disagree
same
never
agree
_____________________________
Which side do you agree with? What do you think?
Ex.4 Read Para 4. complete the diagram.
Robots in the future
How long: ________________
_________
_________in India:_______
can help: _________________________
hundreds of years
humans
animals
snakes
look for people under the buildings
Shapes
1. In some science fiction movies, what will
people have in the future?
2. Which country has robots that can walk
and dance?
3. Where are the huge arm robots working now?
Robots.
Japan.
In factories.
Read and answer the questions.
4. What does James White think?
5. What kind of job can a snake robot do?
He thinks that robots will never be able to
wake up and know where they are.
After an earthquake, it could help look for
people under 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
buildings
Mem.
What are robots
like in movies?
They are like ______________. They can _____________________ and ______________________________.
What can robots
do today?
Will robots think like humans in the future?
What will robots be like in the future?
Robots are working in ____________ today.
They can _____________ and ________________.
Some scientists are trying to make robots
_______________ and _________________________.
Some robots will look like _______,
and others might look like _______.
In India, robots can ______________________.
human servants
help with housework
work in dirty or dangerous places
factories
build cars
do simple jobs
look like humans
do the same things as we do
humans
animals
help look for people
Memory test
What does it look like?
How does it work?
What can it do for you?
Which group is the most creative?
Group work：
Science and technology has changed our life a lot.
So we should work hard to achieve our dreams!
Chinese dream will come true soon!
