Unit 1 Unit 1

Will people have robots?Will people have robots? SelfcheckSelfcheck

Unit 1 Unit 1

Will people have robots?Will people have robots? SelfcheckSelfcheck

Fill in the blanks with the words given.

1. I want to _____ for myself when I’m older.

2. My friends ____ a pet pig in their house.

3. I need to _____ smart for my job interview.

wear work look fly keepwear work look fly keep

work

keep

look

4. We have to _____ a uniform to

school.

5. One day people will _____ to the

moon for vacations.

wear work look fly keepwear work look fly keep

wear

fly

Find the words in this unit.

a large spacecraft that stays above the

Earth and is a base for people travelling

in space

___________space station

an electronic machine that stores

information and uses programs to

help you find, organize, or change the

information

___________computer

a machine that can move and do some

of the work of a person, and is usually

controlled by a computer

___________robot

someone who travels and works in a

spacecraft

___________astronaut

Just for fun!

A: What do you think your life will be like next month?

B: My life will be a lot better than it is now!

Do you think you will have

your own robot?

Prediction about our lifePrediction about our life

Section 1 Before You Read

What do the robots look like?

What can the robots do?

Do you know about robots?

What do they look like?

They look like humans.

This robot looks like a huge arm.

This one looks like a dog.

There are some other robots, what can

they do?

play football dance

help people do the

most unpleasant jobs

help with the

housework

play the piano

What can they do?

talk

Which words and phrases do you think

you will read in the passage?

backpackpianodoctor

Americapossibleswimmingless work

buildingskoalaswaswill

boredyears agocarshousework√

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Title

It tells us _______________________.

Before you read, please read the title

carefully and _____ what you may read

and get ready for the reading.

guess

what the writing is about

Reading strategies:

Summary Summary

Topic sentence

It is usually the ____ sentence of a

paragraph and tells us ____________ of

the paragraph.

Key words

first

the main idea

number, name of a person, a place,

time and so on.

Section 2 Section 2

While you ReadWhile you Read

1. What can robots do in some science fictions?

2. What can robots do now?3. What do some scientists think robots

will do in the future?4. What do some robots look like now?5. What will robots look like in the

future?6. What can a snake robot do?What can a snake robot do?

请根据短文内容请根据短文内容 , , 判断下列句子正判断下列句子正 (T)(T)误误 (F)(F)。。( )1. All the scientists believe that people

will have their own robots in

hundreds of years.

( )2. James White doesn’t think that a

robot will be able to do the same

things as a person in the future.

F

T

( )3. If robots do the same things all the

time, they will get bored.

( )4. In the future, new robots will have

lots of different shapes.

( )5. There will be robots everywhere

in the future and people won’t

need to work at all.

F

F

T

6. Robots will never get bored to do

simple jobs over and over. ( )

7. Humans will have more work to do

in the future. ( )

8. Space rockets seemed possible a

hundred years ago. ( )

F

F

T

Section 3 After You ReadSection 3 After You Read

3b Make sentences with the following

phrases.… … the same as…the same as…

… … make … do…make … do…

… … to take … (period of time)to take … (period of time)

… … to help do …to help do …

… … to help with …to help with …