《Robots》教学设计

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Unit 2 Robots
　　The First Period  Warming up and Reading
　　Teaching goals 教学目标
　　1. Target language目标语言
　　a. 重点词汇和短语
　　fiction, cartoon, desire, satisfaction, absent, 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
　　1. She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.
　　2. Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
　　3. By the amused and surprised 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 based on things-on-hand.
　　Teaching important points教学重点
　　Teach students to enjoy science fiction. Enable students to grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her emotion developed during Tony’s stay at her house. 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 house.
　　Teaching methods教学方
　　Discussing, explaining, reading and practising
　　Teaching aids教具准备
　　The multimedia computer
　　Teaching procedures & ways教学过程与方式
　　Step I   Warming up
　　Deal with Warming up. Present 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 often complex human tasks.
　　T: How can a robot perform human tasks?
　　S3: A robot is controlled by a computer.
　　T: You 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.
　　（Today there are different kinds of robot, including industrial robots, household robots, and entertainment robots. Robots also often appear as characters in stories.）
　　In groups, make a list of any science fiction, literature, films, video games, TV shows and cartoons you know that include robots as characters. Choose one and be prepared to tell the class about it briefly.
　　Step II  Pre-reading
　　Asdents to discuss the questions in pre-reading in groups. Students are encouraged to speat their opinion freely, no matter what it is. Teacher should encourage students to use their imagination.
　　Step III  Reading
　　Deal with the reading part.
　　Scanning
　　Ask the 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 li to meet Tony-- a robot that looks exactly liman being. He is a character in the science fiction Satisfaction Guaranteed by Isaac Asimov. Please 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 answer:
　　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 house and new dresses for herself. He made improvements on the house so that the house looked very elegant.
　　Careful Reading
　　1. Claire's feelings toward Tony changed as the story developed. Read the story,
　　then fill in the occasions when Claire had these feelings.