人教版选修7unit2robots教案

Unit 2 robots

Period 1 warming 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. Help students to sum up characteristics of science fiction.

Teaching difficult points 教学难点

How Claire’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?(Entertainment robots,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 that Claire 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.

（）

f.Claire’s guests were filled 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