英语人教版八年级上册Unit 7 Section B Reading

Unit 7. Will people have robots?
(Section B Reading）
Learning Goals:
一、功能：
使用“will + v. (动词原形)”谈论对未来的预测，描述自己想象中的未来蓝图。

二、知识目标：词汇和常用表达：
Learn and use the expressions:
1.human, dangerous, already, factory, believe, disagree, even, shape, fall(fell), inside, possible, impossible, side, servant, over and over again, hundreds of, look for, fall down,
2.*Fewer people will do such jobs in the future because they are boring, but robots will never get bored.
*It will be difficult to make them really think like a man.
*Some scientists believe that there will be more robots in the future.
三、能力目标
1.依据文章题目和所给图片，预测文章内容。

2.通过略读(skimming)的方式，猜测文章大意。

3.借助关键词，通过寻读(scanning)的方式，判断每一段段落大意，加深对篇章结构的把握。

4.通过细读摘取文中有关机器人的细节信息。

5.通过思维导图复述课文，转换文章信息以加深对文章的理解。

6.在读懂课文内容的基础上发挥自己的想象，对机器人的未来发展进行预测，并与同伴分享观点。

四、情感态度：
通过讨论机器人的现在和未来，激发、培养学生们对未来的想象力，并鼓励学生们为实现美好的梦想更加努力的学习。

Teaching Key Points
1. Key vocabularies and phrases.
2. Understand the passage correctly.
3. Reading practice.
Teaching Difficult Points
1. Improve students’ reading and speaking ability.
Step 1.Lead in (2’)
T: Hello, boys and girls. Do you like watching movies?
Ss: Yes.
T: Let’s enjoy a short movie. （play a video.）
T: What did you see in the movie?
Ss: Robots.
通过电影片段激发学生的学习兴趣，导入机器人话题。

Step 2. Ask and answer. (5’)
T: Do you want to know anything more about robots? Now let me tell you. Look at the flashcards. What do robots look like? ( humans, dogs, snakes, a huge arm, spiders, shapes.)
What can robots do? ( talk, dance, play football, play the piano, cook, help with the housework, the same as )
What jobs do they usually do in the fatory? (simple, over and over again, get bored, fall down, dangerous, look for, inside)
借助图片，向学生简单介绍机器人，导入课本中的主要单词和重点句子，降低课文难度，为后面阅读做好铺垫。

Step 3. Who has the best eyes? 6 key words. (2’)
Step 4. Before reading (2’)
T: I’ll tell you something about reading stratedgy. Look at the title and t he pictue and predict what you will read about.
What can we learn from the title and the picture?
A. It’s about a science fiction movie.
B. It’s about the robot scientist James White.
C. It’s about the robots in the future.
依据文章题目和所给图片，预测文章内容
Step 5. Skimming(7’)
Task A. Now, Let’s read a passage about robots and get the main idea.(2’)
It tells us what the _______look like,
and what they ____ _____ now and_____ ___
in the future.
Task B.Find the main sentence of each paragraph.(1’)
Task C.Read the article and match each paragraph with the question it discusses.(4’)
Paragraph 1 Will robots think like humans in the future?
Paragraph 2 What will robots be like in the future?
Paragraph 3 What can robots do today?
Paragraph 4 What are robots like in movies?
整体把握，注重语篇阅读。

主要目的是引导学生快速阅读课文，搜寻有关信息、了解课文大意，理清文章脉络，培养学生获取段落主题句和概括文章的技能。

Step 6. Scanning (11’)
Now Let’ s read the passage carefully. At first, read Para 1. (2’)
Read Para. 1 and answer:
1.In what kind of movies ,we sometimes see robots?
In the movies about the future.
2.What are they like?
They are like human servants.
Then read Para 2. (2’)
1.Robots can build in factories.
2.They can do jobs many times and not get bored.
Next read Para 3.Will robots think like humans in the future ? (4’)
Yes do the same things as we do
agree Robots can walk and dance
They will be able to talk like humans in 25 to 50 years.
It will be difficult to make robots think like a human
No James White thinks robots will never be able to wake
disagree up and know where they are.
Last read Para 4. (3’)
1.According to Para.4, What will robots be like in the future?
A. Snakes and humans
B. Humans and animals.
2.What can we learn from the article？
A. The writer agrees that robots might think like people in the future.
B. The writer doesn’t believe that robots will be able to talk like humans in the future.
分段仔细阅读，了解文章细节，丰富练习形式，避免学生阅读的畏难情绪，提高阅读的趣味性，提高快速阅读理解能力，并通过阅读感知和学习语言知识。

Step 7. Retelling (5’)
T: Now I’d like you to retell the passage according to the mind map. First try to retell it to your partner. Then I’ll ask someone to retell it to the whole class.
通过思维导图复述课文，转换文章信息以加深对文章的理解。

Step 8. Imagine your own robots(5’)
Now we are interested in robots. Do you have a try to design your own robots? What kind of robots do you want to have? What will your robot be able to do for you? I’ll give you 3 minutes and share your ideas to others.
让学生打开想像的翅膀，描述自己未来的机器人，训练学生的口语和书面表达能力，同时也巩固一般将来时的用法。

Step 9 .Homework(1’)
1.Read the article in 2b.
2.Recite the new words and expressions in the article.
3.Finish the writing work after class.。