B7U2Robots-reading优质课件

Act as a policeman /a seller Do the housework
Robots
Do research
Do some shopping
Talk with humans Play with humans
Do you think it is possible for a robot to:
The Change of Claire’s Feelings to Tony
Occasion Before he arrived
When he arrived When he offered to help her dress
Claire
dislike him
was alarmed
felt embarrassed
When she fell off a ladder and was caught by Tony
When she heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as Tony
felt being envied
Unit 2 Robots
Let’s look at some movie posters below which are about robots. Do you know the names of these movies?
Doraemon 机器猫
I, Robot 机械公敌
Terminator 终结者
Reading for structure
Part 1:
Para 1- Para 3
Help Leave Meet love
Part 2:
Para 4- Para 8
Part 3:
Para 9- Para 11
Part 4
Para 12
Scanning
Reading Comprehension II (part 1 )
He gave her a new haircut and changed the the house make up she completely wore
changed a party in his attitude her house time from the next room
Tony: Mr. Perfect !
When he offered to help her improve her house and herself
admired him
Occasion
When he helped her with the salesman
Claire
called him a dear felt his warmth
work in factories
explore dangerous places industrial robots
pour tea
cook dinner
sweep the floor
serve us
household robots
play with children
work as a waiter
1. How many characters are mentioned? (para 1-4) 2. What did Tony look like? 3. What’s Claire’s feeling towards Tony when they first met with each other? Why did Claire have such a kind of feeling towards Tony?
---- a woman that Claire envies (嫉妒)
2. What did 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. 3. What’s Claire’s feeling towards Tony when they first met with each other? Why did Claire have such a kind of feeling towards Tony? She felt alarmed because he seemed more like a human than a machine.
She fell off a ladder
He He made He gave managed He the He her a new to catch transformed salesman suggested haircut and her in changed the the house changed a party in makeup she completely his attitude her house time from the next wore room
scanning
Reading Comprehension III
Claire’s feelings towards Tony changed as the story developed. Fill in the occasions when Claire had these feelings.
Was Claire satisfied with Tony?
What a sweet victory to be envied by those women! She Hebe made might not as beautiful as He managed He the He them, but none of them had to catch transformed salesman suggested such a handsome lover! her in
Second Law : A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings (as long as human being are not injured ). Third Law : A robot must protect its own existence (as long as human beings are not injured; and as long as the robot does not disobey the human beings).
Guess what these robots are doing.
dancing
Nowadays robots can be made into all kinds of shapes for various uses and there are different kinds of robots.
最早提出机器人这个概念的人是科幻作家阿西莫夫(Isaac Asimov)，二十世纪四十年代他在一本短篇小说中用到了 robotic这个单词。在那篇短文中，阿西莫夫提出了三个指导机 器人行为的准则，也就是著名的机器人三大定律
Asimov’s three laws
First Law : A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured.
Claire had a sense of failure
She was overweight Her house was not and was elegant not smart The salesman was rude to her She wanted to be another Gladys She fell off a ladder
How did Tony help Claire?
Claire had a sense of failure
The salesman was rude to her
She was Her house overweight was not and wasn’t elegant smart
She wanted to be another Gladys
•have feelings? •to think for itself? •have its own needs and desires? •look and feel like a human being?
Nothing is impossible in a fiction! Isaac Asimov (艾萨克 阿西莫夫) （1920-1992） An American scientist and writer Science fiction stories about robots
She remembered Tony was just a machine
cried all night
How Claire’s emotion developed
sad
love proud
trust
accept refuse
Mini Debate 1. Do you think Tony was also in love with Claire? 2. If so, do you think it acceptable
Edward Scissorhands 剪刀手爱德华
The Matrix 骇客帝国
AI - Artificial Intelligence 人工智能
What is a robot? A robot is a machine designed ___________ to do jobs that are usually performed by humans . _________ Robots are programmed and ___________ ___________ by a controlled computer.
Films based on the works of Isaac Asimov (艾萨克 阿西莫夫)
Skimming
Reading Comprehension I The text mainly tells us _____. A. why Claire fell in love with a human being B. why a robot fell in love with a human being C. a story about a household robot being tested out in a family D. that a robot can save a human being from danger
1. 机器人不能伤害人类，或坐视人类受到伤害而袖手旁观。 2. 除非违背第一法则，机器人必须服从人类的命令。 3. 在不违背第一和第二法则前提下，机器人必须保护自己。
Hale Waihona Puke Baidu
Do you think it is possible for a robot to: 1.think for itself 2.have feelings 3.have its own needs and desires 4.look and feel like a human being
1.Characters in the story:
Larry Belmont ---- working in a company that makes robots Claire ---- Larry’s wife, a housewife
Tony ---- the robot
Gladys Claffern
entertainment robots
Why we study robots?
Search engines Science
Medicine/ 诊 Diagnosis 断 What else?
Labor
Appliances
What can a robot do? And so on… Take care of children