人教版-选修7unit2-robots教案

Unit 2 robots
Period 1warming up and Reading
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language语言目标
a. 重点词汇和短语
fiction, cartoon, desire, satisfaction, absent, alarm, alarmed, smooth,
embarrass, sympathy, elegant, pile, scan, fingernail, absurd, haircut,
accompany, curtain, cushion, carpet, paint, awful，affair, firm, firmly, declare, victory, envy, marriage, test out, ring up, turn around, leave alone
b. 重点句型
1. She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.
2. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
3. By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought
she was having an affair.
2. Ability goals能力目标: Help students to learn about robots and science fiction.
3. Learning ability goals学能目标：
Enable students to realize science fiction reflects scientific thought; a fiction of things-to-come based on things-on-hand.
Teaching important points教学重点
Teach students to enjoy science fiction. Enable students to grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her emotion developed during Tony’s stay at her house. Helpstudents to sum up characteristics of science fiction.
Teaching difficult points 教学难点
HowClaire’s emotion developed during Tony’s stay at her house.
Teaching methods教学方法
Discussing, explaining, reading and practicing
Teaching aids教具准备
The multimedia computer
Teaching procedures 教学过程
Step I Warming up
Present a photo of robot. Then ask students to say something about robot.
1.What is on the blackboard?
2.What is a robot?
3.How does a robot work?
(A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans. Robots are programmed and controlled by a computer. )
4. There are many types of robots and they can do different work. Can you name some of them?(Entertainmentrobots,Industrial robots,Domestic robots)
5. What Science fiction about robots have you ever read?(star war,cJ7，terminator, Transformers）
6.What is science fiction?(The science fiction is defined as a form of modern literature ,which is intended to predict future of human world and inspire
human imagination and novelty of scientists.)
Step II Pre-reading
1.Introduce the background of the text.
2.Ask students to predict some questions:
Do you think it is possible for a robot
think for itself?
have feelings?
have its own needs and desires?
look and feel like a human being?
3 .Imagine that one day you find your best friend a robot, what is your feeling? Can you accept him or her as before?
Step III Reading
Fast reading
1.What is the text mainly about?
It is mainly about how a household _________ was _________ ________ in a family.
2.Find the characters in the story
Larry Belmont:working in a company that makes robots
Claire:Larry’s wife, a housewife
Tony:the robot
Gladys Claffern:a woman thatClaire envies
3.Read the story and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
a. Larry was going to be away from home so he hired a robot to accompany his wife.( )
b. Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at last.( )
c. Tony could understand Claire when she said she was not clever.( )
d. Tony was eager to help Clair
e. He scanned quite a lot of books in the library,
but he could find no ways out.（）
e.It was Claire that first decided to invite Gladys and her friends to her house.
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f.Claire’s guests were fi lled with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed.( )
g.Claire was very happy to find that Gladys envied her.( )
h. The company was satisfied with Tony’s report because he had successfully made
a woman fall in love with him..( )
(F T T F F T T F)
4.Reading for structure
Part 1(Para 1- Para 3)：meet
Part 2(Para 4- Para 8)：help
Part 3(Para 9- Para 11)：love
Part 4(Para 12)：leave
Careful reading for details
1.
2.Find out how Claire’s emotion developed
____ _____ ____ _____
____ _____
A.Sad to remember he was just a machine
B.accepted him
C. proud of him
D. refused to have Tony at her house
E. trusted him
F. loved him
Comprehension
Read the story again and answer the following questions in group.
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?
(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.)
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.)
4.Why did Claire feel alarmed at the sight of Tony?
A. Because he was a robot.
B. Because she didn’t like him.
C. Because he was more like a being than a machine.
D. Because he never changed his facial expressions
5.We can infer that when Claire first saw Tony, she felt alarmed by _____.
A. his appearance
B. his ability
C. his facial expressions
D. his cleverness
6.Why did Claire buy the items from the shop?
A. Because her husband was to return.
B. Because Tony was to leave.
C. Because Tony wanted the house transformed.
D. Because she thought she needed them.
7.The robot Tony helped Claire to realize her dream by______.
A. making her home elegant
B. giving her a new haircut and changing the makeup she wore
C. giving her advice on her dresses
D. all the above
8. Which of the following is NOT the reason why Tony opened the curtains?
A. To let other women see everything.
B. To show the risk of Claire’s marriage.
C. To let other women envy Claire.
D. To make Claire elegant just like her neighbor.
9. As a result, the experiment shows _____.
A. Claire and Tony fell in love with each other
B. Tony had to be rebuilt
C. Tony was angry with his designer
D. Both A and B
10. All the following statements are true except _____.
A. Tony tried to please Claire
B. Claire tried to displease Tony
C. Tony managed to protect Claire
D. Gladys admired Claire for Tony
Step IV Post reading Discussion
In groups，discuss the following questions.
•What suggestions do you want to give to Larry Belmont as an engineer?
•What suggestions do you want to give to Larry Belmont as a husband?
•If you were Claire, would you marry the robot ,Tony?
Step V Mini Debate
1. Do you think Tony was also in love with Claire?
2. If so, do you think it acceptable for Claire and Tony to be in love? Useful expressions (推测与确信)
I think/ don’t think… I believe / don’t believe…
I guess/ suppose… I wonder…
I’m sure that … I have a belief that…
Is it possible that…? Are you sure that…?
Step VI Homework
Surf the internet to learn more about robots and science fiction.
Surf the internet to learn about Isaac Asimov.。