高二英语 Robots课件

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• Agreement in
opinion
Ottawa, Canada to
turned
stop the manufacture
against
and use of landmines
landmines in • Still a lot of work to
the 19990s be done
In most cases, even the soldiers who planted the mines did not record where they were placed. Now, Cambodia has one of the highest rates of physical disability of any countries in the world.
4. Where is research being done on robots that can find landmines? 5. In which two countries might the robots be used?
Careful reading
Answer key for Exercise 2:
7. How many landmines are buried in the ground every year?
8. How big is the robot that can find landmines?
9. How much does it weigh? 10. How many legs has it got? 11. When was an agreement to stop the manufacture and use of landmines signed?
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•Each year 2,000,000
landmines buried
•Difficult and dangerous
to remove
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•Much safer in the hunt
Robots for landmines
can help •Faster at finding
find
landmines
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do research on the Internet
for their homework, talk to
them about their day at
school and play games.
Robot What is the robot?
What can the robot do?
It will be used to fly into Tiny dangerous areas.
At the current rate of progress, it may take as many as 100 years to clear all the mines in Cambodia, and the UN estimates that with current technology, it will take nearly 1,100 years to clear all the mines in the world.
cleaner that it cleans when you're away and you can control what it's doing from your computer at the office.
Robot What is The robot?
What can the robot do?
chair
What can the robot do?
It helps people who can't walk
to go up and down stairs.
Reading task
Read this piece of news about landmines.
Three decades of war in Cambodia have left scars in many forms throughout the country. Unfortunately, one of the most lasting legacies of the conflicts continues to claim new victims daily.
12. How many countries signed the agreement?
Suggested answers to Exercise 3:
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traditiona •Ressity
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• Experimental robots
Robots can in production
find plastic • To use radar to locate
mines
mines
• To identify types of
1. How many people are killed or injured by landmines every year? 2. How often is someone killed or injured by a landmine? 3. For how long do landmines keep causing damage?
4. How many landmines are buried just beneath the surface of the ground?
5. In how many countries are landmines buried?
6. How many landmines are removed every year?
3 helicopter For example, it can fly
into a house that's been destroyed by an earthquake and check if anyone's inside.
Robot What is the robot?
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• 26,000 people killed or badly injured each year • 100 million buried in 60 countries
• Most victims are
innocent people
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•Each year 100,00
problem removed
It understands 650 phrases,
Personal speaks more than 3,000. It
robot
can recognize different
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called
people. It can check your
"PaPeRo email. It can help children
This is the situation in Cambodia.
Here and there are the mine signs.
In spite of so many warning signs, there are still many victims.
Robots in the fight against landmines.
Listening and
reading task
Listening on Page 54
Robot What is the What can the robot? robot do?
It can move from room to room cleaning your house.
1 Vacuum You can programme it so
Pre-reading
1. What is the main topic of the article? Which part of the text tells you that? 2. Who wrote the article? 3. What do the three pictures show you?