人教版高二英语 选修7 Unit2 Robots Reading课件（共32张PPT）
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What is robots?
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a robot?
a computer
a fiction character
a movie star
a machine
a servant
Warming up – I
Choose your favorite one.
Warming up – II
What is a robot?
A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans.
Pre-reading I
Do you think it is possible for a robot to:
think for itself?
have feelings?
have its own needs and desires?
look and feel like a human being?
Discuss:
Pre-reading II
Background information:
A retelling of an Isaac Asimov’s story called Satisfaction Guaranteed.
About a human-like robot.
Asimov’s first law for robots: A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured.
The robot, cause the main character to have some very confusing feelings.
Larry Belmont
Claire
Tony
Gladys Claffern
Characters in the story:
---- Larry’s wife, a housewife
---- the robot
---- employed in a company that makes robots
---- a woman that Claire envies
scanning
Read through the passage and then answer the following questions:
1.What is the text mainly about?
2.What did the robot called Tony look like?
3.Why did Larry put Tony into his family?
What is the text mainly about?
2.What did the robot called Tony look like?
It is mainly about how a robot used for housework was tested out in a family.
He looked like a tall and handsome man, speaking in a deep voice, with smooth black hair and his facial expression unchanged.
Because he wanted to test out how a robot used for housework in a family.
3.Why did Larry put Tony into his family?
1. Why did Claire feel alarmed at the sight of Tony?
A. Because he was a robot.
B. Because she did’t like him.
C. Because he was more like a being than a machine.
D. Because he never changed his facial expressions.
Skimming
Choose the best answer
2. The robot Tony helped Claire to realize her dreams by______.
A. making her home elegant
B. giving her a new haircut and changing the make-up she wore
C. giving her advice on her dresses
D. all the above
3. As a result, the experiment shows_______.
A. Claire and Tony fell in love with each other
B. Tony had to be rebuilt
C. Tony was angry with his designer
D. Both A and B
4. All the following statements are true except _______.
Tony tried to please Claire
Claire tried to displease Tony
Tony managed to protect Claire
Gladys admired Claire for her Tony
5. We can infer from the passage that_____.
Claire liked Tony but feared him
Claire cried because Tony made her angry
Claire forgot Tony as soon as Tony left her
Tony had no feelings as human being.
How did Claire feel?
What happened?
She saw Tony was ___ and ________. His hair was ______ and _______and his voice was _______.
Tony asked whether she needed help dressing.
amazed
By his _________ and the ________ and ________of his skin.
______________
Tony caught her in time, held her firmly in his arms .
alarmed
tall
handsome
smooth
black
deep
embarrassed
fingernails
softness
warmth
Happy, surprised, shy
Careful-reading
How did Claire feel?
What happened?
_____________
Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers and declared that he didn’t want to leave her and that he felt more than just the desire to please her.
__________
She was envied by those women.
___________
She remembered Tony was just a machine.
surprise
happy
sad
1. Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by women guests .
Post-reading
2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
He had prevented Claire from harming herself by making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.
3. Why should Tony be rebuilt?
Because the company (designers) cannot have women falling in love with machines.
In groups, list Tony’s characteristics that were similar to those of a human being and different from those of a human being.
Characteristics
Physical
Mental
Emotional
Similar
Different
Discussion
Characteristics
Similar
Different
Physical
(1)Looks like_______________.
(2)Body and skin are_____. (3)Hair and fingernails_____________. (4)Voice like__________.
(1)Facial expressions____________. (2)______________________ (She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time)
a human
being
warm
realistic
a human’s
never change
Quicker
reactions
Characteristics
Similar
Different
Mental
Able to ______________and predictions. Able to ___________and follow it through. Has good ______________ skills
Behaviour not_____________ (Tony asked Claire whether she needed help dressing)
make suggestions
make a plan
communication
appropriate
Characteristics
Similar
Different
Emotional
Can show __________ for Claire and can give ___________ to her.
sympathy
encouragement
Homework
Do you think it needs to rebuild Tony, why or why not?
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a robot?
a computer
a fiction character
a movie star
a machine
a servant
Warming up – I
Choose your favorite one.
Warming up – II
What is a robot?
A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans.
Pre-reading I
Do you think it is possible for a robot to:
think for itself?
have feelings?
have its own needs and desires?
look and feel like a human being?
Discuss:
Pre-reading II
Background information:
A retelling of an Isaac Asimov’s story called Satisfaction Guaranteed.
About a human-like robot.
Asimov’s first law for robots: A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured.
The robot, cause the main character to have some very confusing feelings.
Larry Belmont
Claire
Tony
Gladys Claffern
Characters in the story:
---- Larry’s wife, a housewife
---- the robot
---- employed in a company that makes robots
---- a woman that Claire envies
scanning
Read through the passage and then answer the following questions:
1.What is the text mainly about?
2.What did the robot called Tony look like?
3.Why did Larry put Tony into his family?
What is the text mainly about?
2.What did the robot called Tony look like?
It is mainly about how a robot used for housework was tested out in a family.
He looked like a tall and handsome man, speaking in a deep voice, with smooth black hair and his facial expression unchanged.
Because he wanted to test out how a robot used for housework in a family.
3.Why did Larry put Tony into his family?
1. Why did Claire feel alarmed at the sight of Tony?
A. Because he was a robot.
B. Because she did’t like him.
C. Because he was more like a being than a machine.
D. Because he never changed his facial expressions.
Skimming
Choose the best answer
2. The robot Tony helped Claire to realize her dreams by______.
A. making her home elegant
B. giving her a new haircut and changing the make-up she wore
C. giving her advice on her dresses
D. all the above
3. As a result, the experiment shows_______.
A. Claire and Tony fell in love with each other
B. Tony had to be rebuilt
C. Tony was angry with his designer
D. Both A and B
4. All the following statements are true except _______.
Tony tried to please Claire
Claire tried to displease Tony
Tony managed to protect Claire
Gladys admired Claire for her Tony
5. We can infer from the passage that_____.
Claire liked Tony but feared him
Claire cried because Tony made her angry
Claire forgot Tony as soon as Tony left her
Tony had no feelings as human being.
How did Claire feel?
What happened?
She saw Tony was ___ and ________. His hair was ______ and _______and his voice was _______.
Tony asked whether she needed help dressing.
amazed
By his _________ and the ________ and ________of his skin.
______________
Tony caught her in time, held her firmly in his arms .
alarmed
tall
handsome
smooth
black
deep
embarrassed
fingernails
softness
warmth
Happy, surprised, shy
Careful-reading
How did Claire feel?
What happened?
_____________
Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers and declared that he didn’t want to leave her and that he felt more than just the desire to please her.
__________
She was envied by those women.
___________
She remembered Tony was just a machine.
surprise
happy
sad
1. Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by women guests .
Post-reading
2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
He had prevented Claire from harming herself by making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.
3. Why should Tony be rebuilt?
Because the company (designers) cannot have women falling in love with machines.
In groups, list Tony’s characteristics that were similar to those of a human being and different from those of a human being.
Characteristics
Physical
Mental
Emotional
Similar
Different
Discussion
Characteristics
Similar
Different
Physical
(1)Looks like_______________.
(2)Body and skin are_____. (3)Hair and fingernails_____________. (4)Voice like__________.
(1)Facial expressions____________. (2)______________________ (She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time)
a human
being
warm
realistic
a human’s
never change
Quicker
reactions
Characteristics
Similar
Different
Mental
Able to ______________and predictions. Able to ___________and follow it through. Has good ______________ skills
Behaviour not_____________ (Tony asked Claire whether she needed help dressing)
make suggestions
make a plan
communication
appropriate
Characteristics
Similar
Different
Emotional
Can show __________ for Claire and can give ___________ to her.
sympathy
encouragement
Homework
Do you think it needs to rebuild Tony, why or why not?