Robots

Teaching objectives

To enable students to the following:

l       Talk about robots

l       Ask for clarification

l       Use indefinite pronouns: somebody/someone,  anybody/anyone,  nobody/no one,  every body/everyone,  something, anything, nothing, everything.

Words and expressions:

From the text:

tidy up

prepare

make the bed

perform and operation ( on sb. )

with pleasure

difference(s) between

Something/anything/nothing+ adj.

be different from

from the reading

be full of

all kinds of

keep doing sth.

carry out

Sentence patterns:

There’s something/anything/nothing interesting about it.

Robots are different from ordinary machines.

What’s the difference between robots and ordinary machines?

Do you mean…?

With pleasure.

1.     New words and expressions & Tuning in.

2.     Text & Discovering Language

3.     Developing Skill ? Listening & Speaking

4.     Developing Skill ?listening& Reading & Writing

5.     Comments on the exercises

Warm up:

Could you describe your favourite robot.

Include the robot’s name, appearance, character, ability

Tuning in:

Answer the questions below. Use the picture and word cues.

Read the expressions according to the pictures.

tidying up a room

preparing food

doing and experiment in space

doing a dangerous job

making the bed

performing an operation

Answer the questions in pairs:

1.     What’s the robot in each picture doing?

2.     Which ones are home-help robots?

3.     What can robots help people with?

4.     Are robots different from ordinary machines?

Vocabulary list:

robot

tidy

tidy up

prepare

dangerous

make the bed

operation

perform/ perform an operation

home-help

pleasure/ with pleasure

difference/ be different from

ordinary

housework

somebody

memory

fantastic

factory

Read the words together.

Listen to the text and read after the tape one sentence by one sentence.

Assignment:

Oral: Recite the new words and read the words and text after the tape for 45 minutes.

Written: Copy the text and complete the comprehension check.

Warm up :

Children’ rhyme

Life can be good,

Life can be bad;

Life is mostly cheerful,

But sometimes sad.

Life can be dreams.

Life can be great thoughts;

Life can mean a person

Sitting in court.

Life can be dirty,

Life can even be painful;

But life is what you make it,

So try to make it beautiful.

(with a piece of music)

Revision:

Dictate the words and expressions

Text.

Read the text after the tape.

Complete the comprehension check and check out the answer.

Language highlights and useful phrases.

Tidy up

Example: She tidied up the room this morning.

You’d better tidy yourself up now.

Prepare/prepare for…

Example: He is preparing his lessons for the examination.

Please prepare the table for dinner.

She has prepared a lot of information for her project.

Make the bed

Do you make the bed yourself after you get up?

Although she is young, she is able to make the bed by herself.

Indefinite pronouns:

How to use indefinite pronouns .

Which of these pronouns do we use to talk about people?

Which of these pronouns do we use to talk about things?

People:

Someone/somebody/everybody/everyone (肯定)

Anyone/anybody（疑問）

No one/nobody （否定）

Things:

Anything/anyone（疑問）

Nothing/no one （否定）

Group work:

Make the positive sentences, negative sentences and questions with indefinite words.

Make the sentences with “ be different from”, “tidy up”

“prepare for”, “with pleasure”, “Do you mean”+

Role-read the text.

Assignment:

Written: comprehension exercises in the book.

 Page 70 exercises in the workbook.

Copy the text and translate it.

Oral: Read the new words and text about 45 minutes and recite all the words.

Warm up:

Personal Robot PaPeRo,

Creating better human-machine interface 界面through
"living with robots"

NEC's new robot PaPeRo is smaller and lighter with many improved features on our first generation prototype - 'Personal Robot R100'. PaPeRo's stand-alone architecture means it can easily be taken out of the laboratory, which allows the robot to be taken home, and to many other locations where we can conduct two main types of research. First, the technology issue, such as improving its recognition and sensing ability, and the other, is relationships between humans and robots. Through this fieldwork, we are hoping further the possibilities of introducing robots into our lives.

Revision:

Dictate the words.

Role-read the text.

Developing Skills

l       Listen to the dialogue at a robot shop and complete the information about a new model of home-help robot below.

l       Analyse the table, read some words: advantages, uses, cost

l       Listen to the tape twice and check the answer.

Work in pairs and talk about robots after the model. Use the word cues below.

Practice the following main sentences.

l       “With pleasure”

l       “Do you mean….”

Read the words, phrases cues in pairs.

Role-play in pairs.

Read the passage and decide if the following statements are true or false.

Listen to the tape.

Read after tape one sentence by one sentence.

Check out the answers.

Assignment:

Do exercises in the workbook.

Read reading for 45 minutes.

Recite the text.

Fourth Period

Warm Up:

Read reading.

 Revision:

Dictate the text.

Group work. Suppose you are robotic scientists. You want to develop different types of robots to meet the needs of various kinds of people. Discuss and decide what types of robots you should develop.

Step 1. Discuss your ideas in groups of four after the model. Use the table cues. Then complete the different uses of robots.

Model:

Let’s develop a robot to help students practise English, shall we?

Yes, let’s. Maybe we could also develop a robot to help policemen control traffic.

I agree. Shall we develop a robot to help firemen put out fires, too?

Yes, why not? I feel we also ought to develop a robot to help scientists do experiments in space.

Discuss the users and uses in groups and complete the table.

Report your group discussion to the whole class after the model

Reading

Read the words and phrases.

Read reading after the tape.

Check out the statements

Pair work ask and answer the questions according to the reading in pairs.

Assignment:

Read reading.

Finish the exercises in the workbook.

Fifth period

Warm up:

Read reading.

Additional words:

Listening comprehension.

Listen and check two listening exercises in the workbook.

Comment the exercises in the workbook.