高中英语人教新课标选修七 Unit2 Period 2 Reading(共13张PPT)

3. Why did Tony have to be rebuilt?
Tony had to be rebuilt because the company felt that they could not have women falling in love with a robot.
5. Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house. What sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that he was a machine?
help her dress
Claire… disliked him was alarmed fehelp her improve her house and herself
admired him
5 When he helped her with the salesman
3 Discuss and List Tony’s characteristics that were similar to those of a human being and different from those of a human being.
Characteristics Similar Different
Pre-reading
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Guess the meaning of the title and predict the content of the passage.
Skimming
The main characters in the story
rry Belmont ---- a scientist of a company that made robots 2.Claire Belmont ----Larry's wife, a housewife 3.Tony---- the robot 4.Gladys Claffern ---- a woman that Claire envies.
How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine. He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day. Then she remembered-Tony was just a machine. She shouted “Leave me alone” and ran to her bed.
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 the women guests.
2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
6 When she fell off a ladder and caught by Tony
Called him a dear
Felt his warmth
7 When she heard Gladys
Felt being envied
whispering to another woman
that she had never seen
Scanning
1. Read the story, then fill in the occasions when Claire had these feelings.(ex1 p12)
Occasion
1 Before he arrived 2 When he arrived 3 When he offered to
problems
Behaviour not appropriate(w anted to help Claire dress)
Physical
Looks like a Facial expressions
human being. never changed.
Tall, handsome, Quicker reactions
black hair, deep voice…
Clever enough to
Mental solve all kinds of
anyone so handsome as Tony
8 She remembered Tony
was just a machine
Cried all night
Careful reading
2 Read the story again and answer the following questions in group. (ex 2 p12)
Book 7Unit 2 Robots
Reading
Pre-readinPgre-reading
Do you think it is possible for a robot to have human thoughts?
What do you think of staying with a robot that has human thoughts?
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.