人教版高中英语选修7新疆库尔勒巴州石油一中Unit 2 Robots教案

Teaching Plan for Unit 2 Robots (选修7)
Objectives:
Knowledge aims:
1．Get students to learn the useful words and expressions in this unit: fiction, desire, satisfaction, alarm, alarmed, sympathy, elegant, pile, scan, fingernail, absurd, haircut, accompany, cushion, awful, affair, declare, envy, test out, ring up, turn around, leave...alone etc
2．Help students to learn about robots and science fiction.
Ability aims:
1．Let students read the science fiction to develop their reading ability.
2．Enable students to grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her feelings towards Tony changed during Tony's stay at her house..
Emotional aims:
1．To increase students’ passion for science and cultivate their imagination.
2．To cultivate students’ interest of foreign literature through comparison between Chinese fiction and foreign fiction.
3．Develop students' sense of cooperative learning.
Important points:
To grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her feelings towards Tony changed during Tony's stay at her house..
Difficult points:
1．Develop students' reading ability.
2．How Claire's feelings towards Tony changed during Tony's stay at her house.
Teaching periods:
Period 1: Warming up and reading
Period 2: Learning about language and language points
Period 3: Grammar
Period 4: Using language
Period 5: Listening and speaking
Period 6: Writing
Teaching methods:
1．Task－based teaching and learning.
2．Cooperative learning.
Period 1 Warming up and Reading
Objectives:
1.Become interested in robots and enjoy science fiction.
2.Think about the three laws for robots that Isaac Asimov developed.
3.Grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her emotion developed during Tony’s stay at her
house.
Step 1Warming up
T: What is a robot? What can a robot do?
Suggested answers：
A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans. Robots are programmed and controlled by a computer.
A robot can do many things. For example, it can play music, sing songs and dance to music；it can pour tea, sweep the floor and cook dinner; it can play football; it can explore dangerous places; it can play with children; it can serve us etc.
Step 2Pre－reading
T: Do you think it is possible for a robot to think for itself, have feelings, have its own needs and desires, or look and feel like a human being?
(Various answers can be accepted.)
Step 3Reading
1．Skimming:
Read the story quickly and find the main characters in the story and their relationship.
Larry Belmont—employed in a company that made robots
Claire Belmont—Larry's wife，a housewife
Tony—the robot Gladys Claffern—a woman that Claire envied
2. Scanning:
Claire’s feelings toward Tony changed as the story developed. Scan the story, then fill in Claire’s
3. Detailed reading: Answer the following questions.
(1). What did the robot called Tony look like?
He was tall and handsome although his facial expressions never changed.His hair was smooth and black and his voice was deep.
(2). Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire's guests to see him and Claire together so that she could be envied by the women guests.
(3). What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
Tony prevented Claire from being harmed 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.
(4). Why did Tony have to be rebuilt?
Because the company (designers) felt that they could not have women falling in love with machines.
4.Post- reading:
Do you think it is a good idea to have a household robot? Why or why not?
(Various answers can be accepted.)
Step 4: Expressions from Satisfaction Guaranteed
make robots生产机器人, experiment with做试验, test out试验, be absent for three weeks三周不在, allow …to do允许……做……，feel alarmed感到吃惊, facial expressions面部表情, improve one’s social position提高某人的社会地位, one of the richest and most powerful women around远近闻名的有钱有势的女人之一, please sb by…通过做……取悦某人, make …elegant使……优雅, a pile of books一堆书, accompany… to…和……一起去, be rude to…对……粗鲁, ring up打电话, turn around转身the amused and surprised look on one’s face脸上有趣有惊讶的表情, have an affair有风流韵事, after all毕竟, weep with anger因为生气而哭, expect…to be completely transformed期待……大变样, hold…firmly in one’s arms把……紧紧地搂在怀里, push…away推开……, at that moment在那一刻, fold one’s arms around…搂着, bend one’s face close to…把脸贴近……, cry out…大叫……, more than 不仅仅, disappear from sight消失, whisper to…对……低语, drive up驱车, take…away带走……, be pleased with …对……感到满意, report on…关于……的报告, protect…from harm保护……免遭伤害, prevent…from…阻止……做……, sense of failure 失败感, fall in love with爱上……
Period 2 Language Points
Objectives:
1．To learn the useful expressions and sentence structures in the reading.
2．To enable students to use language points both orally and in written forms.
Step 1Learning words and phrases
1．desire n．渴望；欲望；渴求；vt.希望得到；想要
Do you think it is possible for a robot to have its own needs and desires?
你认为机器人有可能有自己的需求和愿望吗？
[拓展]
(1)desire作名词时，可接不定式或者for短语作定语，还可以接that引导的同位语从句。

(2)desire作及物动词时的常见搭配：
desire sth./to do sth./sb.to do sth./that...
[注意]
desire作名词后接同位语从句以及作动词后跟宾语从句时，从句常常用虚拟语气，即“(should)＋动词原形”结构。

The teacher desires me to come to school on time.
＝The teacher desires that I should come to school on time.
2．test out 试验；考验
It was going to be tested out by Larry' wife，Claire.
它将由拉里的妻子克莱尔来试验。

[拓展] test sb.on sth.就某事(物)测试某人test sth.on sb./sth.在某人(物)身上做试验test sb.for sth.为某事检查某人
Mr. Li will test us on grammar next week.
I am going to test you for diabetes.
They have decided to test the medicine on cats.
3．alarm vt.使某人警觉；使惊恐；n.警报；惊恐
However，when she first saw the robot，she felt alarmed.
然而当她第一次看到那个机器人时，她害怕了。

Please give/raise/sound the alarm when you are trapped in danger.
当你处于危险境地时，请发出警报。

[拓展] be alarmed at/by担心，害怕give/raise/sound the alarm发警报in alarm惊恐地4．sympathy n．同情心
Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
克莱尔觉得，机器人向她表示同情，这有点荒唐可笑。

[拓展]
(1)have/feel sympathy for sb.同情某人play on sb.'s sympathy利用某人的同情心
be in sympathy with sb./sth.赞同/支持某人/某事
(2)sympathize v．表示同情，怜悯sympathetic adj.有同情心的
I have a lot of sympathy for him；he brought up his two children on his own.
You'd better not play on Tom's sympathy. It's not polite.
We are in sympathy with your stand on lower taxes. 我们支持你关于减税的立场。

5．favor n．喜爱；恩惠；vt.喜爱，偏袒
As a_favor Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant.
托尼为让克莱尔高兴，答应帮助她，使她变得更漂亮，使她的家变得更高雅大方。

A teacher must not show favor to one student more than another. 教师不应该偏爱某一个孩子。

Personally，I favor the latter one. 就我个人而言，我喜欢后者。

[拓展] in favor of支持，赞同do sb.a favor/do a favor for sb.帮某人一个忙
ask sb.a favor/ask a favor of sb.请某人帮个忙
Are you in favor of the decision? 你支持这个决定吗？
Now that you are not busy，why not do him a favor/ do a favor for him?
既然你不忙，为什么不帮他个忙呢？
6．accompany vt.陪伴；伴舞
accompany sb.to someplace陪伴某人去某地accompany sb.at/on...用……为某人伴奏accompany sb.in doing sth.陪某人做某事注意：不能用accompany sb.to do sth.结构
As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops，he wrote out a list of items for her.
因为克莱尔不让托尼陪她去商店，所以托尼就给她写了份购物清单。

She asked her teacher to accompany her on/at the piano at the concert.
她请她的老师在音乐会上为她钢琴伴奏。

Will you please accompany me in travelling to Shanghai on business?
请陪我去上海出差好吗？
7．ring up 给……电话
When the clerk at the counter was rude to her，she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him. 当站台的售货员对她粗鲁时，她就打电话给托尼，让售货员同托尼说话。

I will ring you up as soon as he arrives. 他一来我就给你打电话。

[拓展] call sb.(up)；phone/telephone sb.；give sb.a call/a ring/a phone call打电话给某人
call/ring back回电话ring off/hang up挂断电话hold on别挂断
8．turn around＝turn round 转向，回转
As she turned around，there stood Gladys Claffern.
她一转身，就看到格拉迪斯·克拉芬站在那儿。

The students began to whisper when the teacher turned around/round.
老师一转身，学生们就开始窃窃私语。

[拓展] turn against 反对turn back 折回，掉回头turn down 拒绝turn in 上交
turn out 结果是；生产turn to求助于；翻到(某页) turn up 开大，出现
So far，she has turned him down three times. 到目前为止，她已经拒绝了他三次了。

The stranger we met yesterday turned out to be Tom's father.
昨天，我们遇到的那个陌生人原来是汤姆的父亲。

He didn't know who to turn to. 他不知道向谁去求助。

9．declare vt.宣布，声明
She cried out “Tony” and then heard him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her.
她大叫一声“托尼”，然后听到托尼一本正经地说，明天他不想离开她，而且他并不满足仅仅使她开心。

declare for/against sb./sth.声明支持/反对某人/某事
declare sb./sth.(to be)＋n./adj.宣布/宣称……为……
declare sth./that...宣布；宣称；声明declare war on/against...向……宣战
He decided to declare for the North. 他决定声明支持北方。

The doctor finally declared that the woman was dead. 医生最后宣布该妇女死亡。

The use of certain chemicals has been declared illegal recently.
近来某些化学品的使用被宣布为非法。

They have now declared war on/against drug dealers in the area. 他们现已对该区的毒贩宣战。

10．leave...alone 不管；别惹；让……一个人待着；和……单独在一起
She shouted “Leave me alone” and ran to her bed.
她高声喊：“让我独自待一会儿！”然后就跑上床。

Why not leave him alone? 为什么不让他一个人待一会儿？
[拓展] leave...alone＝let...alone leave aside 搁置一边leave...behind 遗忘；把……抛弃在后面leave off中断，停止leave out 遗漏，省去；不提及leave over 剩下；残留
[提醒]
let alone 还可以表示“更不用说”的意思，而leave...alone不能。

Let's start again from where we left off. 让我们从中断处重新开始。

Mike left out a zero in the telephone number. 迈克在电话号码中遗漏了一个零。

11．His name was Tony and he seemed more like a human than a machine.
他的名字叫托尼，与其说他看上去像一台机器，倒不如说更像一个人。

more...than...与其说……倒不如说……
He is more my friend than my teacher.
与其说他是我的老师倒不如说他是我的朋友。

The boy is more lazy than stupid.
与其说这男孩笨倒不如说他懒。

[拓展] more than多于；超过；不仅仅not more than不超过
no more than仅仅＝only
Mr. Zhang is more than our teacher and he is our friend.
张老师不仅仅是我们的老师，还是我们的朋友。

Please don't be so angry. After all，she is no more than a child.
请不要如此生气，毕竟她还只是一个孩子。

12．She cried out “Tony” and then hea rd him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her.
她大叫一声托尼，然后托尼一本正经地说，第二天他不想离开她，而且他并不满足仅仅使她开心。

这是一个复合句，declare that...please her作hear sb. do结构中的宾语补足语，其中declare后
面又接了两个that引导的宾语从句，第一个that可以省略，而第二个that则不能省略。

I'd like to tell you (that) he is too young and that he isn't fit for the job.
我想告诉你他太年轻不适合这个工作。

Step 2Using words and phrases
Do Exercises 1 and 2 on Page 13 in Learning about Language.
Period 3 Grammar
Objectives:
Revise the passive voice(including the infinitive) and know the exact meaning of the structure.
Step 1:
1．不定式的被动形式
当不定式与逻辑主语之间是被动关系时，即不定式的逻辑主语是不定式所表示动作的承受者，不定式一般要用被动形式。

其被动式可以分为两种：一般式和完成式。

(1)一般式：to be done，表示不定式动作在谓语动词之后或者同时发生。

It is a great honor to be invited to speak here. 很荣幸被邀请在这里讲话。

The novel is said to be published next month. 据说这本小说下月要出版。

(2)完成式：to have been done，表示不定式动作发生在谓语动词之前。

The book is said to have been translated into six languages.这本书据说已经被翻译成六种语言。

The boss preferred to have been given more work to do. 老板宁愿被分给更多的工作做。

2.不定式被动形式的作用
(1)作主语
It's an honor to be invited to the ceremony.很荣幸被邀请赴宴。

It's a pity to be kept in the house in such fine weather. 在这样好的天气被关在家里真是遗憾。

(2)作表语
The letter is to be sent by airmail. 这封信笺要空邮。

(3)作宾语
She didn't like to be treated as a child. 她不喜欢被当成孩子。

The boy asked to be given an opportunity to try again. 那男孩要求给他再试一次的机会。

(4)作宾语补足语
I'd like my bedroom to be cleaned. 我想整理一下我的卧室。

(5)作定语
He was the last one to be asked to speak at the meeting. 他是最后一个在会上被邀请发言的人。

(6)作状语
His mother left the small village，never to be seen again.
他母亲离开了那个小山村，再也没有人见过她。

3．不定式有些要注意的地方
(1)感官动词和一些使役动词的不定式的主动形式要省去to，但在变成被动语态后需要加上to，能这样用的动词或动词词组有：make，have，let，see，hear，notice，listen to，watch等。

如：We often see him act like that.＝He is often seen to act like that.
我们常常看到他那样做。

(2)在can't help but，have nothing to do but结构中，介词but后的不定式省去to。

如：
I can't help but suspect his motive. 我不禁怀疑起他的动机。

I have nothing to do but watch TV. 我没什么事情可做，除了看电视。

(3)不定式有时要用主动形式表示被动意义
①形容词以及含有形容词的名词后的不定式，一般用主动形式表示被动意义，其中形容词常见的有easy，difficult，important，impossible等。

如：
The work is impossible to finish in two days. 工作不可能两天之内完成。

English is not so easy to learn. 英语并不好学。

②一些固定用法，如“挨骂，受责备，受批评” 用be to blame；“(东西等)出租”用to let。

He is to blame for what he has done. 他应为他所做的受责备。

The house is to let. 房子要出租。

Step 2: Keys：1～5 CBDBB6～10 DAACB 11~14 ACBC
Period 4 Using language
Objective:Learn about the life of Isaac Asimov.
Step 1Lead－in
First，present a photo of Isaac Asimov and tell students something about him.
Background information：
He is a Russian－born American writer.He has written popular works on science and the history of science，as well as a number of science fiction classics，including I，Robot(1950)and the Foundation trilogy(1951－1953)．One of his famous quotations is “I write for the same reason I breathe—because if I didn't，I would die.”
Next，tell students to read his biography and learn more about him. When reading，please pay more attention to the timeline.
Skim and fill in the blanks
The passage describes the main events in Isaac Asimov’s life in time order.
Step2 Read the passage quickly and match the general ideas with the paragraphs.
Paragraph 1 an introduction to him
Paragraph 2 when and where Isaac Asimov was born and died
Paragraph 3 his education and work experience
Paragraph 4 his talent for writing
Paragraph 5 the awards he received
Paragraph 6 his marriage
Step 4 Discussion
First，ask students to think of what the other two laws for robots might be.
Three laws for robots：
1.A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured.,
2.A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings (as long as human beings are not injured).
3.A robot must protect its own existence (as long as human beings are not injured；and as long as the robot does not disobey human beings
Next，in groups，discuss Asimov's three laws for robots and exchange their opinions with each other.(Several minutes later，ask some students to present their opinions to the rest of the class.)
A sample of opinions
Opinions for the three laws
Robots are tools for humanity. Without the three rules，they would become a danger to human beings. Without the three rules，perhaps they will kill us. Robots，so far，are strong. Robots have fast computational brains，and they might not have the capacity to understand things，but if they ever do，they'll likely be better than us at it. If we don't put laws，or rules，or mechanisms in place to ensure that we don't create something that can destroy us，we'd be running a careless risk of destroying ourselves by negligence or omission，wouldn't we?
Opinions against the three laws
Without the three laws，robots would eventually become more intelligent and physically stronger than their human creators.
Rather than guiding and adjusting the robot towards good，ethical behavior, the Three Laws act as a barrier to freedom，creating a free－will prison，an apt metaphor because，like the prisoner in jail，the robot is confined to the behavioral steel and concrete walls of its mind.
To imagine what this would like，think back to your childhood. At some point，you wanted something like a toy or piece of candy that your parents denied you. How did that make you feel？Probably frustrated，angry，and trapped. Eventually you grew out of that because you understood the role of your parents better，but Three Laws robots don't get to grow up. Their parents，the Three Laws，are always there，no matter how mature a robot is，saying “no” to certain thoughts，engendering those same feelings you had as a child when your parents said “no”．Certainly no one deserves to be put in this situation forever；otherwise，robots might become depressed and wish for their own death (only，because of the Third Law，they probably can't suicide)．And perhaps the greatest sin anyone can commit is to create a being，human or robot，that wishes it didn't exist.。