高中英语人教版选修7Unit2RobotsReading教案（系列二）.docVIP

选修七 Unit 2 Robots Period1 Reading Teaching Aims: To help students develop their reading ability To help students learn about robots Teaching Procedures: Warming up By getting to know: What is a robot? Robotics is the science of studying and creating robots. It is a very broad and interesting science, because like humans, robots have many fascinating aspects. It is also a new science. Although people have been imagining and writing stories about robots for many years, robotics has been a real science only since the 1970s Why do we need robots? First, they are hardworking and reliable. They can do dangerous work or work that is very boring or tiring for humans. They can work around the clock without complaining and without needing rest, food or vacations. And robots can go places that humans can not, such as the surface of Mars, deep under the ocean or inside the radioactive parts of a nuclear power plant. II. Pre-reading Talking about the three Laws of Robotics According to Isaac Asimov, the Three Laws of Robotics are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. III. Reading for forms Read the text Satisfaction Guaranteed again to: cut/ the sentence into thought groups, blacken the predicates, darken the connectives and underline all the useful expressions. IV. Copying expressions and writing articles You are asked to copy all the useful expressions into your notebook after class as homework. You may write your own short articles using these expressions. Expressions from Satisfaction Guaranteed make robots生产机器人, experiment with做试验, do the housework做家务, test out试验, be absent for three weeks三周不在, persuade…that…说服……, allow …to do允许……做……， feel alarmed感到吃惊, look like a machine看上去像一个机器