新目标八年级下Unit1_Reading.pptVIP

science fiction movies 1.What does Wall.E look like? 2. What can he do? Read paragraph 1 and answer the following questions: Besides (除了）helping with the housework, what can the robots do? They can also do the most unpleasant jobs. Will people in the future have their own robots? How do we know that? Yes, they will. By watching some science fiction movies. Read paragraph 2 and answer the following questions: Why have Japanese companies made robots walk and dance? Because it will be fun to watch. How long will it take scientists to make robots look like people and do the same things as us? It will take hundreds of years. Read paragraph 5 and answer the following questions: What can a snake robot do？ It can help look for people under buildings after an earthquake. Will humans have less work to do in the future? Why? Yes. Because there will be more robots everywhere. Are these predictions possible in the future? Why? Yes. Because we never know what will happen in the future. The main idea of the passage: A) It tells the history of robots. B) It tells what robots may look like and what they can do now and in the future. C) The writer wants to tell us it’s impossible to have our own robots in the future * * Do you think you will have your own robots? Reading He looks like a human. He can deal with rubbish. 处理垃圾 Lead-in They look like bears. They look like pigs. They can help clean my desk and computer. They can talk to people and teach kids English. Guess what these robots can do. They look like humans. They can… talk to people dance walk help with the housework What do they look like? They look like huge arms. It looks like a snake. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Paragraph 4 Paragraph 5 Match each robot with the correct paragraph. Skim Intensive reading Intensive reading Read paragraph 3 and tell true or false: Robot scientist James White agrees that robots can do the same things as a person. A robot will be able to know whe