Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
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高二 选修 7
Unit 2
Robots in the fight against landmines
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1. Do you think landmines are very dangerous?
2. Are there landmines that haven’t been found today? Will they cause death and damage?
3. How can we remove them?
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
The main topic is the role of robots in the fight against landmines. The title tells us that.
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Someone using a metal detector to find landmines;
the robot that can find landmines;
some people who have lost their legs because of landmines.
Write questions for these answers. Check your work with a partner.
One person every 20 minutes.
26,000 people.
Answer
Question
1. How many people are killed or injured by landmines every year?
2. How often is someone killed or injured by a landmine?
100 million.
For decades after wars have ended.
Answer
Question
3. For how long do landmines keep causing damage?
4. How many landmines are buried just beneath the surface of the ground?
100,000.
60 countries.
Answer
Question
5. In how many countries are landmines buried?
6. How many landmines are removed every year?
4 m long, 1.8 m wide, 1 m high.
2,000,000.
Answer
Question
7. How many landmines are buried in the ground every year?
8. How big is the robot that can find landmines?
6.
900 kg.
Answer
Question
9. How much does it weigh?
10. How many legs has it got?
122 countries.
1997.
Answer
Question
11. When was an agreement to stop the manufacture and use of landmines signed?
12. How many countries signed the agreement?
Read the article again carefully and look at each paragraph in turn. Underline the sentence which sets out the main idea of that paragraph. Then fill in the table below.
1
Supporting details
Main idea
Para- graph
Introduction: the damage landmines cause
26,000 people killed or badly injured each year
100 million buried in 60 countries
Most victims are innocent people
2
The problem of landmines
Each year 100, 000 removed
Each year 2,000,000 buried
Difficult and dangerous to remove
3
Robots can help find traditional mines
Much safer in the hunt for landmines
Faster at finding landmines
Research at Chiba University
4
Robots can find plastic mines
Experimental robots in production
To use radar to locate mines
To identify types of mines
5
World opinion turned against landmines in the 19990s
Agreement in Ottawa, Canada to stop the manufacture and use of landmines
Still a lot of work to be done
Talk about how the robots can be used in other field.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines
On Page 57
1. Do you think landmines are very dangerous?
2. Are there landmines that haven’t been found today? Will they cause death and damage?
3. How can we remove them?
Write questions for these answers. Check your work with a partner.
Read the article again carefully and look at each paragraph in turn. Underline the sentence which sets out the main idea of that paragraph. Then fill in the table below.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines
On Page 57
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Read the article again carefully and look at each paragraph in turn. Underline the sentence which sets out the main idea of that paragraph. Then fill in the table below.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
1
Supporting details
Main idea
Para- graph
Introduction: the damage landmines cause
26,000 people killed or badly injured each year
100 million buried in 60 countries
Most victims are innocent people
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
1
Supporting details
Main idea
Para- graph
Introduction: the damage landmines cause
26,000 people killed or badly injured each year
100 million buried in 60 countries
most victims are innocent people
2
The problem of landmines
each year 100, 000 removed
each year 2,000,000 buried
difficult and dangerous to remove
3
Robots can help find traditional mines
much safer in the hunt for landmines
faster at finding landmines
research at Chiba University
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
4
Robots can find plastic mines
experimental robots in production
to use radar to locate mines
to identify types of mines
5
World opinion turned against landmines in the 19990s
agreement in Ottawa, Canada to stop the manufacture and use of landmines
still a lot of work to be done
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
5
World opinion turned against landmines in the 1990s
agreement in Ottawa, Canada to stop the manufacture and use of landmines
still a lot of work to be done
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Talk about how the robots can be used in other field.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Talk about how the robots can be used in other field.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Write questions for these answers. Check your work with a partner.
Read the article again carefully and look at each paragraph in turn. Underline the sentence which sets out the main idea of that paragraph. Then fill in the table below.
Talk about how the robots can be used in other field.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines.
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that?
2. What do the three pictures show you?
Robots in the fight against landmines
On Page 57