八年级英语Do you think you will have your own robot课件

Tongue twister

绕口令

1. Can you can a can as a canner can a can?你能够像罐头工人一样装罐头吗？

2. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!我叫喊，你叫喊，我们都喊着要冰淇淋!

3. Robert has a red robot, Robert likes his red robot .罗伯特有一个红色的机器人，罗伯特喜欢他的红色机器人。

Watch the trailer(预告片) of the famous science fiction WALL-E of 2008. Try to get as much information as possible and be ready to discuss it.

Title: Do you think you will have your own robot?Picture:

Predict and circle the words and phrases you

think you will read in the passage and then compare your prediction with your partner.

human √ bored √ koalas swimming doctor

cars will √ buildings √ possible √ piano

years ago √ was less work √ America backpack

in the future 将来 hundreds of 数以百计的 the same as… 和……一样

get bored厌烦 look for 寻找

1、human n. 2、scientist n. 3、huge adj. 4、snake n. 5、shape n. 6、possible adj. 7、earthquake n. 8、toothbrush n. 9、electric adj. 10、seem v. 11、already adv.

Guess new words through word-building(根据构词法猜测词义 ).

house+work work done in a house (cleaning, cooking, washing,etc)

In some science fiction movies, people in the future have their own robots. These robots are just like humans. They help with the housework and do the most unpleasant jobs.un+pleasant not intresting

Get the main idea: It tells us what robots may look like and what they can do now and in the future.

Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph. A topic sentence sets out the main idea of a paragraph. A topic sentence is usually the first or last sentence of a paragraph.

Para. 2

Some scientists believe that there will be such robots in the future. But robot scientist James White disagrees…

Para. 3

Para. 4

Robot scientists are not just trying to make robots look like people.

Para. 5

In the future, there will be more robots everywhere, and humans will have less work to do

Scanning(细读): Read the passage and thenchoose T(true) or F(false) for each sentence below.( T )1. Some scientists think we will have our own robots in the future. ( T )2. Japan has robots that can walk and dance. ( F )3. James White thinks that it’s easy for a robot to do the same things as a person. ( F )4. Some scientists think that robots can talk to people now in the reading. ( T )5. Robots working in factories look more like huge arms. ( T )6. After an earthquake now, a snake robot can help look for

people under buildings

What can robots look like?help with housework do unpleasant jobs

What can robots do ?

…

humans, huge arms snakeswalk and dance

different shapeslook for people talk to people

work in factories

Fill in the blanks In the future, new robots will have many different shapes. Some will look like humans, and others might look like snakes, huge arms etc. Scientists ar

e now trying to make robots look like people the same things as us, for example, and do these robots can walk and dance . In some science fiction movies, we may have our own robots, they can talk to people, help with the housework, do the most unpleasant jobs. It seems possible in the future.

Section 2 While You Read Do you think you will have your own robot?

In some science fiction movies, people

in the future have their own robots.These robots are just like humans. They

科幻电影

help with the housework, and do themost unpleasant jobs.使人不愉快的

help sb. with sth. / help sb. (to) do sth. 帮助某人做某事

Some scientists believe that there will be such robots in the future. However, they agree it may take hundreds of years. Scientists are now trying to make robots look like people, and do the same things as us. Japanese companies have already made robots walk and dance. This kind of robot will also be fun to watch.try to do sth. 尽力去做某事 try doing sth. 尝试做某事 make robots look like…使机器人看起来像…一样 make sb. / sth. do…