2013年河北省迁安一中高二英语课件：2book7unit2.pptVIP

Careful reading 1. How many people are killed or injured by landmines every year? 2. How often is someone killed or injured by a landmine? 3. For how long do landmines keep causing damage? Answer key for Exercise 2: 4. How many landmines are buried just beneath the surface of the ground? 5. In how many countries are landmines buried? 6. How many landmines are removed every year? 7. How many landmines are buried in the ground every year? 8. How big is the robot that can find landmines? 9. How much does it weigh? 10. How many legs has it got? 11. When was an agreement to stop the manufacture and use of landmines signed? 12. How many countries signed the agreement? Para graph Main idea Supporting details 1 Introduction: the damage landmines 26,000 people killed or badly injured each year 100 million buried in 60 countries Most victims are innocent people Suggested answers to Exercise 3: 2 3 The problem of landmines Robots can help find traditional mines Each year 100,00 removed Each year 2,000,000 buried Difficult and dangerous to remove Much safer in the hunt for landmines Faster at finding landmines Research at Chiba University 4 5 Robots can find plastic mines World opinion turned against landmines in the 19990s Experimental robots in production To use radar to locate mines To identify types of mines Agreement in Ottawa, Canada to stop the manufacture and use of landmines Still a lot of work to be done Listening and reading task Listening on Page 54 Robot What is the robot? What can the robot do? 1 Vacuum cleaner It can move from room to room cleaning your house. You can programme it so that it cleans when youre away and you can control what its doing from your computer at the office. Robot What is The robot? What can the robot do? 2 Personal robot called PaPeRo It understands 650 phrases, speaks more than 3,000. It can recognize different people. It can check your email. It can