Unit2

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Unit 2 Robot (Reading)

Teaching aims:

1.   To understand the idea of how robots can change our lives.2.   To recognize and understand vocabulary about life with robots.3.   To identify the good points and bad points of owning a robot.

Part One Lead-in

Can you guess what it is?

It is a robot that can sweep the floor for me!

What can a robot do?

sweep the floor

make the bed

do the laundry

wash dishes

make dinner

look after children

chat with people

explore dangerous places

It may help you a lot, but it may also bring you much trouble.

salesmaneveryday

airvirus

dustbinmess

rice cookermirror

coinspread

n. 售货员，推销员adj. 日常的，每天的vt. 使通风n. 病毒n. 垃圾箱n. 混乱，杂乱n. 电饭煲n. 镜子n. 硬币vt. & vi. 使分布；展开

Part Two Pre-reading

Task One New words

Matching the new words with their meanings

Task Two

1 salesman

2 spare

3 iron

4 laundry

5 virus

6 mess

7 spread

a cover a large areab the process of washing

clothesc a dirty and untidy

conditiond a man who sells thingse freef make clothes smooth

with an irong something that causes

computer problems2分

Part Three While-reading

Task One Listening

1 Did the robot make a great difference to Mr Jiang’s everyday life?

2 What did Mr Jiang decide to do in the end?

Part Three While-reading

Task One Listening

1 Did the robot make a great difference to Mr Jiang’s everyday life?

2 What did Mr Jiang decide to do in the end?

Yes, it did.

He decided to return the robot to the robot shop.

Part Three While-reading

Task One Listening

1 Did the robot make a great difference to Mr Jiang’s everyday life?

2 What did Mr Jiang decide to do in the end?

Yes, it did.

He decided to return the robot to the robot shop.

2分

Task Two Reading Paragraphs 1 & 2 and answering the questions

1 What’s Mr Jiang’s job?

2 Why did he decide to buy a robot for himself?

He is a salesman.

He bought the robot in order to have more spare time.

2分

Task Three Reading Paragraphs 3-5 and filling in the form below

What did the robot do?What did Mr

Jiang do?

_________ the breakfast;

_________ his shirts;_________ a lunch box

stay in bed for____________every day

makeiron

makean extra hour

In the morning

2分

______ the flat; ___ the laundry;

_____ the dishes; _____ thefloor; _____ the bed; _____ therooms; __________ at the supermarket

workclean dowash sweep

make airgo shopping

During the day

2分

_________ the dinner;_________ the dishes

_________ and watch his favourite TV programmes

cookwash

relax

In the evening

2分

Task Four Reading Paragraphs 6 & 7 and choosing the wrong things that the robot did He cooked breakfast at the right time. He woke up Mr Jiang at the wrong time. He threw Mr Jiang’s breakfast into the

dustbin. He threw Mr Jiang’s clean shirts into the

dustbin. He moved around the house and knocked

things over. He went out and often lost his way home. He made a mess in Mr Jiang’s flat.

2分

Part Four Post-readingTask One Helping Daniel complete the lists below (Page 26)

Good points1 I will have a lot more _____ time.2 I can __________ for a bit longer in the

morning.3 It can help Mum do the ________ when

there are dirty clothes.4 It can ________ my shirts after they are

washed.5 It can ________ after dinner.6 My _____ will be as clean as new.

sparestay in bed

laundry

iron

wash the dishes flat

2分

Bad points1 If the robot catches _________, it will

cause a lot of problems.2 It might put my breakfast in the

________________.3 It might even throw my shirts into the

_________ along with the rubbish.4 It might ________ some things over.5 It might make a __________ in my flat.6 I might have to send it back to the

__________.

washing machine

knockdustbin

mess

robot shop

a virus

2分

Task Two Reading and telling ‘T’ or ‘F’ (Page 27)

(1) Yes.

(2) Maybe. Some changes are good, but

some are not.

(3) From the supermarket.

(4) They want to have more spare time.

(5) It can eat my breakfast for me.

F

T

F

T

F

2分

(6) Yes, I can sleep until noon every day.

(7) It’ll do the housework.

(8) I’m afraid it can’t.

(9) No. Robots never go wrong.

(10) I can return it to the shop.

F

T

F

F

T

2分

Robots can do nearly everything for us. (1)______________( 结果 ),many people would like to have a robot (2) ______________ （为了） have more time to enjoy life. They can really make our lives more relaxed in many ways if they act normally. However, like human may get ill, a robot may (3) ______________（染上病毒） . If so, things will start to (4) ______________ （出差错） . It may (5) ______________________ （撞翻你的东西） and you will find your room (6) ______________ （一团糟 ). It may make many mistakes when it helps with your studies.(7) ______________ （最后 , you will find it is (8) _____________( 太麻烦） .

as a result

in order to

catch a virus

go wrong

knock your things over

in the end

too much trouble

in a mess

Part Five Consolidation2分

Part Six Discussion

Would you like to live with a robot?

Why or why not?

Part Seven DesignWhat is your ideal robot?

Design your ideal robot You need to draw the robot on the paper then write a short passage about your robot

Name: Appearance: Ability: do the housework / tell funny jokes / teach you Chinese , English and other subjects/play football

Homework

1 Read the passage aloud.

2 Finish off the additional exercises.

Additional exercises

Put the following sentences into English.

1 因特网已经在很多方面改变了我们的生活。 The Internet _______________ our life

_____________________.

2 为了能挽救那个病人的生命，医生们已经试用了所有有效的药物。

_______________ save the ____________, doctors ____________ all the effective medicines.

3 新规定使这座城市的交通状况产生了很大的改观。

The new rule ________ a _____________ the city’s traffic conditions.

4 他改变了饮食习惯并且每天锻炼，结果很快便减肥成功了。

He ________ his diet and _________ every

day. _______, he successfully __________.

5 我的电脑上周感染了一个病毒，它开始工作不正常了。

My computer __________ last week and it

started to ___________.

Keys to the additional exercises

1 has changed; in many ways

2 In order to; patient’s life; have tried

3 made; great change to

4 changed; exercised; As a result; lost his

weight

5 caught a virus; go wrong

说 明

本课是 9B Unit 2 的 Reading 。这一课

时介绍了江先生购买机器人以后生活发生的

变化。文章分两大部分，分别介绍了现代科

技给我们带来的便捷和存在的问题。

在组织教学时，教师可以先利用图片导入有关机器人的话题，激发学生的学习兴趣。然后教授新单词，扫清学生阅读时的障碍。在组织学生阅读时，教师可以通过问题、表格等多种形式对文章进行分部分理解。在整个教学过程中，教师要注意对学生阅读策略的训练，而不要简单地上成语言知识讲解课。