Unit 7 Will people have robots?

Unit 7 Will people have robots?

What will your life be like in ten years?

Take out the trash

What will the robots do in 2035?

talk to people

help carry the shopping bags

help look after the pet dogs

make meals

They will do the same things as us.

help people do the most

unpleasant jobs

help with the housework

There are some other kinds of robots, what can they do ?

spider

a huge arm

snake

factory

earthquake

2. What will your robot do ?

1. My robot will…

2.

3.

4.

…

Do you think you will have your own robot?

Can you predict what this passage is about?

It’s about…

Para.1 Will robots think like humans in

the future?

Para.2 What will robots be like in the

future?

Para.3 What can robots do today?

Para.4 What are robots like in movies?

2b

Read the article and match each paragraph with the question it discusses.

根据要求，利用本课词汇填空。Safe( 反义词 ) _______ possible( 反义词 )

___________ make( 过去式 )__________

easy( 近义词 )__________ hardly （近义词）__________dirty （近义词） _________

Fast reading 速读短文，回答下列问题。 (1)Are there any robots now?

(2)Will there be more robots in the future?

Careful reading ( 阅读策略：仔细阅读短文，有目的性、针对性地在文中查找问题答案。 )

根据文章内容，判断各句正误。(1) The robots help people do the most pleasant jobs.

(2) Scientists try to make robots look different from people.

(3) Robots will never get bored to do simple jobs over and over again.

(4) Humans will have more work to do it the future.

(5) Space rockets seemed possible a hundred years ago.

Detailed reading( 阅读策略：有选择地精研细读有关章节或段落，解决疑难之处。 )

阅读文章的 1~3 自然段，回答下列问题。(1) What do the robots do in some science movies?

(2) Will robots get bored

(3) What can the robots do in Japanese companie

s?

(4) Does Mr. White think robots can do the same

things as a person?

观察与思考：1. However, they agree it may take hundreds of years.

hundreds of 意思为 ____________ ，后跟 ___________名词复数。当 hundred 表示具体数量时，不可以 +s ，也不可以和 of 连用。例如： 400___________ 。

练习： There are ________books in our school library.

A. hundred of B. hundreds of C. nine hundreds D. nine hundreds of

2. He thinks that it will be difficult( for a robot) to do the same things as a person.

…,it’s easy for a child to wake up and know where they are.

It is + 形容词 + （ for sb. + ） to do sth. 意思为 _________________________

练习：汉译英。① 学好英语对我而言很难。 _______is difficult for me ________ ____

____English well.

② 按时到校对我而言很容易。 ______is easy for me _______ _______to school on time.

3. For example,there are already robots working in factories.

There be sb. /sth. +doing sth. 意思为 _____________________________

练习： Listen! There is a girl ________(sing)in the next room.

4. That may not seem possible now,…

seem 意思为 ___________ ，其后可跟 __________ 词或 to do.

练习：①她似乎病了。 She ________ ______ __________ ___________.

/ She ________ ____________.

② 看，机器人似乎动了。 Look! The robot ________ ________ _________.

1. Robots can build ____ in factories.

2. They can do _______ jobs many times

and never get bored.

3. Some can _________ and

_____________.

4. Some can help _______ people under

___________.

cars

simple

look for

the buildings

walk

dance

Read the article again quickly. Complete the sentences about what robots can do now.

2c

Fill in the blanks in this paragraph

with words from the article.

指导： 此类短文填空题，考查同学们全面掌握

短文内容，以及综合运用语言的能力。 首先，应将通读本段文字，掌握大意。

可知在短文中列举了科学家们的两种观点。

然后，根据 2b 中短文的内容填空。

2d

Some robots are very human-like. They

can walk and ______ like people. Some

scientists think that in the future they

will _______ robots more like humans.

This may not _________ in the near

future, but at some point, robots will

even be able to ______ like people.

However, some scientists _________.

dance

make

come true

talkdisagree

James White believes that robots will

not be able to do the ________ things

as we can. For example, he thinks

that robots will ______ be able to

wake up and know where they are.

Which side do you ________ with?

same

not

agree

What kind of animals might robots

look like in the future? What do you

think these robots will be able to do?

Write your ideas and discuss them

with your partner.

2e

I think some future robots might look like

spiders. They will be able to help us clean

the window, sweep the floor.

Some robots might look like snakes. They

will be able to help look for people under

the buildings. If buildings fall down with

people inside.

They will also be able to sever us. They can

make dinner, do the dishes and cook coffee

for us.

Some robots will be look like people. They

will be able to sing, dance and talk with us.

Some robots might look like big arms.

They will be able to work in factories. They

can help make cars and do simple jobs

over and over again.

Today there are already robots working in facto

ries. 现在已经有机器人在工厂里干活了。此句中的 working in factories的逻辑主语是 ro

bots，但是在这个 there be句型中，谓语动词已经有了 are，所以 work就不能再作本句的谓语动词，而应用 -ing形式。这一点在学习和使用 there be句型时需要特别注意。

当堂检测根据汉语提示完成句子。1. No one knows what will happen ___________the ______

______( 在将来 ).

2. These things were invented __________ __________( 数百 )years ago.

3. When I work for a long time, I’ll _________ _________( 感到厌倦 ).

4. I still don’t have a computer of __________ __________( 我自己的 ).

5. When she was 20, her dream to be a singer __________ __________( 实现 ).

Homework

1. 听读背诵： 2b

选做题：课内基础自测 III ; 课后巩固提高 IV

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