Section B (2a-2e)
Unit 7
Will people have robots?
学习目标
Key words & phrases:
human，servant，dangerous，already，
factory…
over and over again，hundreds of，fall down …
Key sentences:
1. However，some scientists believe
that although we can make robots
move like people，it will be difficult
to make them really think like a
human.
2. Some scientists believe that there
will be more robots in the future.
However，they agree it may take
hundreds of years.
Robots in the future.
A：What will you be in 10 years?
B：I will be a …
A：Where will you work?
B：I will work in …
Lead in
Did you see any robots?
Here are some amazing robots.
Robots in the movie
Pre-reading
Robots in Japan
Do you think you will
have your own robot?
What’s it like?
What do you want it
to do for you?
It can do housework.
It can do boring work.
It can be a doctor.
It can play the piano.
It can plant flowers.
It can do many hard or dangerous work.
They can report the news.
They look like humans.
2a Tell your partner what you know
about robots. What do they look like
and what can they do?
2b Read the article and match each
paragraph with the question it discuss.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Will robots think like
humans in the future?
What will robots be like in
the future?
What can robots do today?
What are robots like in
movies?
While-reading
1. What do the robots look like in the
movies?
2. What can the robots do for people?
Human servants.
They help with the housework and do jobs
like working in dirty or dangerous places.
Answer the questions.
3. Where are the robots already working?
4. What kinds of the jobs do the robots do?
Why?
In factories.
They do simple boring jobs over and over
again. Because they will never get bored.
2c Read the article again quickly.
Complete the sentences about what
robots can do now.
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
walk dance
look for
buildings
2d Fill in the blanks in this paragraph
with words from the article.
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.
dance
make
happen
talk
However, some scientists ____________.
James White believes that robots won’t be
able to do the __________ things as us. For
example, he thinks that robots will ________
be able to wake up and know where they are.
Which side do you ______ with?
disagree
same
never
agree
If I have a robot, I hope that it will …
Let your imagine fly.
(放飞你的想象)
2e What kinds 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.
I think some future robots might look like
________________. They will ____________
______________________________________
After You Read
Look at the following pictures. And
guess what the robots can do.
Post-reading
cook
clean the floor
1. help sb. with sth. 帮助（做）某事
help sb. (to) do sth. 帮助做某事
He often helps me with my English.
= He often helps me study English.
他经常帮助我学习英语。
2. It takes / took / will take sb. some time to
do sth.
某人花了一些时间做某事(时态根据具体情
况决定）
It takes me an hour to get to my office.
It took me quite a long time to understand.
3. hundreds of 许多；大量
hundred 数词, “百”, 用于a，one或含有数
量意义的词之后, 其后接可数名词的复数形式。
There are four hundred students in our
grade. 我们年级有400名学生。
当这类数词前面有具体的数字时, 数词不能
用复数形式。如:
We have more than five hundred this kind
of books. 我们有500多本这种书。
three hundred 三百 five thousand 五千
a few hundred 几百
类似的数词还有thousand , million, 当数词
前没有具体数字时, 数词用复数形式, 后面接
短语, 再加可数名词的复数形式。
4. make sb. (代词为宾格）do …
让某人做……
He made Tom laugh.
他使汤姆发笑。
I couldn't make my car start this morning.
今天早晨我的汽车发动不起来了。
5. the same as … 和……一样
— She looks the same as Lucy.
— They are the twin sisters.
她看起来和露西长的一样。他们是双胞胎
姐妹。
反义短语： be different from
6. be able to do sth. 能够做某事
We hoped that we should be able to do
that. 我们希望我们能这样做。
They may be able to give me some ideas.
他们会给我一些建议的。
be able to 和 can 的区别
(1) be able to 用于表能力，并可用于多种
时态和非谓语动词短语，而can 只有一般现
在时和一般过去时两种时态。
(2) can 可用于人或物作主语的句子中；而
be able to 的主语只能由有生命的名词充当。
(3) can 常指客观上能够；be able to 更侧重
于“克服一定困难”、“经过努力”、“有
能力”做成某事。
Summary
1. What are robots like in movies?
2. What can robots do today?
3. Will robots think like humans in the
future?
4. What will robots be like in the future?
• Listen to the recording and retell the passage.
• Work out the exercise on the students’ book.
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