(共38张PPT)
Unit 2 Robots
邹城一中 李文明
Unit 2 Robots
邹城一中 李文明
Entertainment
robots
Industrial robots
Household robots
Reading: Satisfaction guaranteed
Scanning: read quickly to find
four characters in the story
Gladys Claffern
Skimming
What is the text mainly about?
It is a story between a household ______
named ________ and _________.
robot
Tony
Claire
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4
Para 1- Para 3
Para 4- Para 8
Para 9- Para 11
Para 12
Meeting
Help
love
Leaving
Skimming
Match each part with its main idea
Careful reading
Part 1 (Para1-3)
When Claire first saw Tony, she felt _______, because
_____________________
When Tony asked whether she needed help dressing, she felt __________.
alarmed
he seemed more like a human than a machine.
embarrassed
How did Claire feel when they first met?
_______her when she
fell off a ladder
helped Claire make herself ________ and her home more ________
helped Claire be
_________ by other women
gave her advice on how to decorate her house
gave her a new ________and changed the ________she wore
What did Tony do for Claire?
Part 2 (Para4-8)
elegant
smarter
haircut
makeup
caught
envied
True or false
1. Claire knew that Tony had opened the window at the beginning.
2. When she heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen
Part 3 (Para9-11)
anyone so handsome as Tony, she envied others.
3. When she remembered Tony was a machine, she was sad.
F
F
T
1.Why did Tony open the curtains?
Because you cannot have women falling in love with machines .
Part 4 (Para 12)
2.Why should Tony be rebuilt?
To let Claire’s guests see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by those women.
难句剖析:
But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt—you cannot have women falling in love with machines.
can not have sb.doing sth.表示
even though(= )引导让步状语从句,意为“ ”。
“I couldn’t have Yong Hui tell people lies.”
考点提炼
不允许某人做某事
even if
即使
巩固练习(单句改错)
telling
Summary
A household robot was going to ___________ (test) out in a family. Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning,____she agreed to it at last. At ____ first sight of Tony,Claire was _________ (alarm). Tony seemed _______ like a human ______ a machine.
Tony helped Claire make her smarter and her home _______________(elegant). At a party, all the guests_______ were invited envied Claire very much______ they saw her house completely changed. After the test,the company was satisfied with Tony’s report although they can’t have Claire ____________ (fall) in love with him.
be tested
but
alarmed
her
more
than
more elegant
who
when
falling
Imagine you are engineers in a company that makes robots and you have been asked to design a new type of robot
1. Discuss with group members about the robot and design it.
2.Introduce the robot’s function and make a list of its abilities .
3.Draw a picture of the robot
4.Use a paragraph describing the robot.
Group work: discussion
Preview the language points
Review the passage and make a performance of the story