Unit2RobotsWarmingUpLanguagePoints课件（人教版选修7）.ppt

; What is a robot? How does a robot work? Can you list some kinds of robots you know about? ;What is a robot?;Do you think it is possible for a robot to: think for itself? have feelings? have its own needs and desires? look and feel like a human being?;Larry Belmont Claire Tony Gladys Claffern;1.Larry was going to be away from home so he hired a robot to accompany his wife Claire. 2.Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at last. 3.When Tony, the robot, offered to help dressing, Claire was pleased to accept it. But she thought it was surprising for a robot to be so human. 4.Tony could understand Claire when she said she was not clever.;5.Claire’s husband wanted to improve his social position, but she was sorry she could do nothing to help him. 6.Tony was eager to help Claire. He scanned quite a lot of books in the library, but he could find no ways out. 7.Tony asked Claire to go to the town to buy things he needed to improve the house. 8.It was Claire that first decided to invite Gladys and her friends to her house.;9.While Tony worked on the improvements of the house, Claire also did her part. 10.Claire was happy to find that Gladys envied her. 11.Claire’s guests were filled with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed. 12.The company was satisfied with Tony’s report because he had successfully made a woman fall in love with him.;1. Why did Tony open the curtains? ;2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed? ;3. Why should Tony be rebuilt? ;Careful reading;5. Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house. What sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that he was a machine?;Charac- teristics;Charac- teristics;Charac-teristics;Language points ; desire to do sth. desire sth. desire sb. to do sth. desire that sb. (sh