1、Reading and ThinkingUNIT 2 LOOKING INTO THE FUTUREHow did you spend your summer vacation?Study,play computer/mobile phone putermobilephoneCan you live without them?ipadWhat are their functions?Smart homeWhat do you think a“smart”house can do that other houses cannot?Smart homeSmart homeSmart homeDig
2、italHouseholdApplianceSmart Homes to Make Life EasierPre-reading1Purpose of the text2intended audienceof the textActivity:Read the title and the three subtitles and identify purpose and audience.To introduce smart homes.Home ownersThis text has several sub-titles.They will help us get what the write
3、r wants to tell us more quickly.From the sub-titles,we can know the structure of the text easily.While-readingActivity:Read Paragraph 1 for the topicQ1:What problems do we have today?Q2:What do you think of living in a regular home today?Forget to lock.;forget to switch off.Annoying/high resource-co
4、nsuming/dangerous/.While-readingQ3:What difference will smart homes make to our life?Q4:How does the writer introduce the topic?Q5:Why does the author use two questions at the very beginning of Paragraph 1?keep us secure,save us energy,and provide a more comfortable environment to live inBy contrast
5、ing.To get readers attention or raise their interest.While-readingWhat do you think will be talked about in the following parts?-an introduction to the technology which makes future homes smart;-some example functions of smart homes;-the expense of smart homes;-the relationship between smart technol
6、ogy and humans;.Read Paragraphs 2-5 individually to confirm the predictions.While-readingActivity:Fill in the table below.In the future,what will smart homes do about?doorsdinnersTVs,computersbedswater pipes,electrical wirestoiletslights,favourite music,or TV programmesWhile-readingdoors dinnersTVs,
7、computersbedswater pipes,electric wirestoiletslights,favourite music,or TV programmes lock the door for us when we are awayprepare dinner for usswitch off TVs and computers when we forget record how well we sleep,check our body weight,send a warning to our phones when we have sleep or weight problem
8、s,and give us suggestions on a healthier diet and how to sleep bettercome on the instant we enter the doordetect if there is a problem and provide us with the relevant informationkeep constant track of our health and warn us early on if there is something abnormalPost-readingActivity:Fill in the bla
9、nks below.A smart home is one that i_ computers into the structure of the building itself.In this way,many of the things that we now do ourselves will become a_.For example,the smart home could control the air conditioning and lights so that you would no longer have to turn s_ on and off,making your
10、 home more energy-e_.The smart home could also m_ itself to make sure that everything is working as it should,and send you w_ if there is a problem.Such smart homes could even be programmed to d_ your health problems,and then give you r_ advice as to the food you should eat or if you should see a doctor.So in a sense,smart homes will lead us to living smarter lives.ntegratesutomaticwitchesfficientonitorarningsetectelevantTHANKSMake you different
