Unit 2 Robots
Ⅰ. 单元教学目标
技能目标Skill Goals
▲ Learn literary work about science, robots and science fiction writer—Isaac Asimov ▲ Talk about robots
▲ Express supposition and belief
▲ Revi the Passive V oice (I) (including the infinitive)
▲ Science fiction ge nre: imaginative writing
Ⅱ. 目标语言
功能句式Supposition and belief I think ...I suppo ...Maybe ...I don‟t think ...
I doubt ...I guess ...I believe ...I wonder ...I don‟t believe ...
词汇1．四会词汇: fiction, desire, satisfaction, abnt, alarm, alarmed, embarrasd, sympathy, elegant, pile, scan, fingernail, absurd, haircut, accompany, cushion, awful, affair, declare, envy, biography, junior, navy, talent, chapter, divorce, obey
2．认读词汇: houhold，Isaac Asimov, Larry Belmont, Claire, Gladys, makeup, Marion, Philadelphia, PhD, The Foundation Trilogy, empire
3．词组: test out, ring up, turn around, leave alone, t aside, in all, be bound to 4．重点词汇: desire, satisfaction, embarrasd, alarm, alarmed, sympathy, elegant, accompany, declare, envy, obey
结构The Passive Infinitive:
The company‟s new car is going to be designed in the coming months.
重点句子She felt embarrasd and quickly told him to go. P11
Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot. P11
By the amud and surprid look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having an affair. P11
It was when Asimov was eleven years old that his talent for writing became obvious. P16
Ⅲ. 教材分析和教材重组
1. 教材分析
本单元以机器人和科幻小说为话题，介绍了20世纪世界知名的科幻小说家Isaac Asimov 写于1951的Satisfaction Guaranteed 和作者的生平。通过本单元的教学，旨在让学生了解科幻小说最大的特征在于：它赋予了“幻想”依靠科技在未来得以实现的极大可能，甚至有些“科学幻想”在多年以后，的确在科学上成为了现实。如Isaac Asimov1951年描述的机器人的部分功能已经被应用于现实生活和工作中。在教学中，要鼓励学生敢于幻想，大胆创新，发挥自己丰富的想象力和创作力，写出独具特色的科幻文章。
1.1 Warming Up介绍了什么是机器人和不同种类及不同形状的机器人。
1.2 Pre-reading 通过讨论机器人是否像人类一样有自己的思维、是否有感情引出Isaac Asimov的科幻小说Satisfaction Guaranteed，为本单元的Reading做好了铺垫。
1.3 Reading的课文是Isaac Asimov写于1951的科幻小说Satisfaction Guaranteed。文中描述的机器人Tony是一个除去面无表情外，身材高大、相貌英俊、聪明机智的完美男人，仅三周的时间就使女主人
坠入爱河。
1.4 Comprehending共有3个练习，练习1是关于克莱尔的情感变化，练习2是关于课文内容的5个问答题，旨在考查学生对课文的理解；练习3要求学生比较机器人Tony在physical, mental两方面与人的异同，与Pre-reading 部分的问题相呼应。
1.5 Learning about Language分为两部分，Discovering uful words and expressions是本单元词汇练习题；Revising uful structures是本单元语法练习题，通过本单元的学习，要求学生熟练掌握不定式的被动语态。
1.6 Using Language分为两部分，Listening and speaking是Molly 和Kate 讨论Satisfaction Guaranteed的对话录音，要求学生根据对话内容学会运用表达自己观点的常用句型。这部分教学内容还要求学生以机器人为话题，充分发挥自己的想象力，谈论机器人做家务的利与弊。并且要求自己动手设计机器人，附上文字说明。Reading, discussing and writing部分的内容是科幻小说家Isaac Asimov的生平介绍。文章后附有练习题。第一题要求学生根据时间线索了解在作者生命中发生的重要事件；第二、三题要求学生讨论Isaac Asimov的“机器人三定律”。
2．教材重组
2.1 将Warming Up、Pre-reading、Reading与Comprehending整合在一起上一节“阅读课”。
2.2 把Learning about Language 和Workbook的USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS及USING STRUCTURES整合在一起上一节“词汇语法课”。
2.3 将Using Language的内容设计成一节包括听说读写在内的“综合技能课（一）”。
2.4 将Workbook的LISTENING和READING TASK设计为一节“泛读课”。
2.5 将Workbook的SPEAKING TASK, TALKING，LISTENING TASK 和WRITING TASK 整合在一起上一节“综合技能课（二）”。
3. 课型设计与课时分配
1st Period Reading 2nd Period Language study
3rd Period Integrating skills (Ⅰ) 4th Period Extensive reading
5th Period Integrating skills (Ⅱ)
Ⅳ. 分课时教案
The First Period Reading
Teaching goals教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言wft什么意思
a. 重点词汇和短语: fiction, desire, satisfaction, abnt, 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
She felt embarrasd and quickly told him to go.
passbookClaire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
By the amud and surprid 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 bad on things-on-hand.
Teaching important points教学重点: Enable students to grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her emotion developed during Ton y‟s stay at her hou. 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 hou.
Teaching methods教学方法:Discussing, explaining, reading and practicing.
Teaching aids教具准备: Multimedia computer.
Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式
Step Ⅰ Warming up
Deal with Warming Up. Prent photos of different kinds of robots. Then ask them to say something about his or her favorite robot.
T: Good morning / afternoon, class!
Ss: Good morning / afternoon, Mr. / Ms ...
T: In this class we are going to learn about robots. Who would like to tell me what a robot is?
S1: A robot is a machine.
T: What kind of machine?
S2: A robot is a kind of machine that can do a variety of complex human tasks.
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T: How can a robot perform human tasks?
S3: A robot is controlled by a computer.
T: Y ou are right. Then we can give the definition of a robot like this: A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans. Robots are programmed and controlled by a computer. Now look at some pictures. Divide them into different types and decide your favorite one.
A list of movies about robots:
Short Circuit 2, The Iron Giant, Future world, Blade Runner, The Time Machine, Power Rangers Time Force — The End of Time (2001)
Step ⅡPre-reading
Ask students to discuss the questions in Pre-reading in groups. Students are encouraged to speak out their opinions freely, no matter what it is. Encourage students to u their imagination. Possible answers:
1. Y ou would find the robot in the first photo in a factory. It is an industrial robot that picks up, carries and moves loads.
The cond robot is a robot dog. The robot dog is a toy that would be found in people‟s home.
The third robot would be ud as a surveillance tool that can travel over open terrain. It has a camera on its top at the front to feed back to the operators of the robot what lies in its path.
2. There are many types of robots: industrial robots ud in manufacturing; domestic robots such as vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers; entertainment robots such as toys and tho in theme parks; robots ud in toxic waste cleanup and in underwater and space exploration; surgical robots; bomb disposal robots and tho that can detect landmines; airborne robots ud to arch for people (such as in an area affected by an earthquake).
3. Students‟ own answers. All answers are correct.
Step ⅢReading
Deal with the reading part.
Scanning
Ask students to scan the text and find out what Tony looks like.
T: OK. I‟m glad you had a heated discussion. Now I‟d like you to meet Tony—a robot that looks exactly like a human being. He is a character in the science fiction Satisfaction Guaranteed by
Isaac Asimov. Plea read the text and find the answers to the following questions.
Show the following questions on the PowerPoint.
1. What did Tony look like?
2. What did Tony do to make Claire and her home elegant?
Several minutes later check the answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers:
1. He was tall and handsome although his facial expressions never changed. His hair was smooth and black and his voice was deep.
2. Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore. He also suggested Claire buy new curtains, cushions, a carpet and paint for the hou and new dress for herlf. He made improvements on the hou so that the hou looked very elegant.
Careful reading
Ask students to read the text carefully and then complete the table on Page 12.
occasion Claire…
1. Before he arrived disliked him
2. When he arrived was alarmed
3. When he offered to help her dress felt embarrasd
4. When he offered to help her improve her hou and herlf admired him
5. When he helped her with the salesman called him a dear
6. When she fell off a ladder and caught by Tony felt his warmth
journey是什么意思7. When she heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never
en anyone so handsome as Tony
felt being envied
高温瑜伽8. She remembered Tony was just a machine cried all night
英语四级复习资料Then discuss the comprehending questions on Page 12 in groups.
T: Let‟s read the text carefully and then do the comprehending exercis on Page 12.
Several minutes later check the answers with the whole class.
Suggested answers:
2.1. He wanted Claire‟s guests to e him and Claire together so that she would be envied by the women guests.
2.2 Tony prevented Claire from being harmed by making her feel good about herlf. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.
2.3 Tony had to be rebuilt becau the company felt that they could not have women falling in love with a robot.
2.4 Students give their own answers.
2.5 Sentences:
How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine.
He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day.
Then she remembered-Tony was just a machine.
She shouted “Leave me alone” and ran to her bed.
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Characteristics Similar Different
Physical Looks like a human being.
Body and skin soft and warm.
Hair and fingernails realistic.
deemFacial expressions never
changed Quicker reactions (She fell off a ladder and even though
V oice like a human‟s.Tony was in the next room,
he managed to catch her in
time.)
Mental Able to make suggestions and
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predictions. Able to make a
plan and follow it through.
Has good communication
skills.
Behaviour not appropriate (Tony brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing.)
T: From the development of her emotion, we can e Tony was designed as a Mr. Perfect. He is designed not to harm Claire or allow her to be harmed. This is one of Isaac‟s three laws for robots. Later in this unit we will learn more about his three laws.
Characteristics of science fiction
T: As you know, the story was written in 1951. With the development of science, some of the functions performed by Tony have come true. From this story we can draw a conclusion: Science fiction is often bad on scientific principles and technology. Science fiction may make predictions ab
out life in the future. Plea remember the are some characteristics of science fiction. If you are interested, you may write short science fictions in your spare time. Explanation
During this procedure, play the tape recording for students. Students will underline the difficult ntences. After listening to the tape, explain the text and deal with the language problems.
T: Now we will deal with some difficult language problems. Now I will play the recording of the text for you. Plea make a mark where you have difficulties.
After listening to the recording, explain the difficult ntences to students. Before explaining the difficult points, students are asked to refer to the notes to the text on Pages 88-89.
T: Do you have any difficulties with the text？
S1:Could you plea explain the ntence to us：She felt embarrasd and quickly told him to go. T: Becau Tony didn‟t look like a machine at all, whe n Tony offered to help her get dresd, she was embarrasd, perhaps shy to get a “man” help her get dresd.
S2: How to understand this ntence: Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
T: In spite of the fact that Tony looked so human, he was just a machine. So Claire thought it was foolish that Tony offered her sympathy. Do you have any other questions?
Ss: No.
T: Maybe someday we will have robots that have feelings and can also think for themlves. Plea remember science fiction reflects scientific thought; things-to-come bad on things-on-hand. OK, that‟s all for today. Don‟t forget to surf the Internet to learn more about the great writer and his stories. Of cour you will learn more about robots.
Step Ⅳ Homework
Remember the characteristics of science fiction.
Surf the Internet to learn more about robots and science fictions.
Surf the Internet to learn about Isaac Asimov.
The Second Period Language study
英语外教一对一收费Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语: fiction, desire, satisfaction, abnt, alarm, alarmed, smooth, embarrass, sympathy, elegant, absurd, haircut, accompany, curtain, cushion, carpet, paint, awful, affair, firm,
