1、 What do robots look like? They look like humans. What does it look like? It looks like a dog. What does it look like? It looks like a snake. It looks like a huge arm. What does it look like? What can robots do? talk do exercise cook play the piano What can robots do? play football What can robots d
2、o? walk dance help to build cars help with housework What can robots do? work in dirty places work in dangerous places What can robots do? look for people inside the buildings. fall down What can robots do? Do you think you will have your own robot? Look at the title and the picture, and predict wha
3、t you will read about. 先看标题和图片,预测你要读到的内容先看标题和图片,预测你要读到的内容 What can we learn from the title and the picture? A. Its about a science fiction movie. B. Its about the robot scientist James White. C. Its about the robots in the future. Task II. Find out the topic sentence(中心句)(中心句) of each paragraph(段落)(
4、段落). A topic sentence is usually the first or last sentence of a paragraph. Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 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? Read the article and match each paragraph with th
5、e question it discusses. Reading strategy:Skimming(略读略读) Read Paragraph 1, and answer: 1.In what kind of movies ,we sometimes see robots? 2. What are they like? In the movies about the future. They are like human servants. Reading strategy:Scanning(细读细读): Read Paragraph 2 and complete the sentences.
6、 1.Robots can build _ in factories. 2.They can do _ jobs many times and never_. cars simple get bored Read Paragraph 3, decide True or False. ( )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 robo
7、ts move like people and think like a human . ( )4.Scientist James White believes that robots will never be able to do the same things as we can. T T F F F F T T humans but it will be difficult to make them. Read Paragraph 4 and complete the diagram. Robots in the future How long:_ Shapes :_ in India
8、:_ use for: _ Possible/impossible? hundreds of years humans , animals snakes help look for people under the buildings in the movie humans housework dirty now time Some robots are very human-like. They can walk and _ like people. Some scientists think that in the future they will _ robots more like h
9、umans. 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. Wh
10、ich side do you _ with? dance make happen talk same disagree not agree listen and fill in the blanks In movies about the future: Robots are like human_. In factories: they can do _jobs over and over again and never get_. In Japan: some robots can _and _. In the future: Robots will have many differen
11、t kinds of _. Some will look like _,and others might look like_. clean the house do unpleasant jobs help with the housework go shopping talk to people help look for people play games I will let my robot . If you have your own robot, in what ways do you think a robot will help you and your family in the future? Write your ideas. 1.Read the article in 2b. 2.Recite the new words and expressions in the article. 3.Finish the writing work after class.