新目标 八年级 ( 下 ) Unit 1 Unit 1

Unit 1 Will people have robots? Unit 1 Will people have robots?

Fill in the blanks with the words given. 1. I want to _____ for myself when I’m older. 2. My friends ____ a pet pig in their house. 3. I need to _____ smart for my job interview. wear work look fly keep work keep look

4. We have to _____ a uniform to school. 5. One day people will _____ to the moon for vacations. wear work look fly keep wear fly

Find the words in this unit. a large spacecraft that stays above the Earth and is a base for people travelling in space ___________space station

an electronic machine that stores information and uses programs to help you find, organize, or change the information ___________computer

a machine that can move and do some of the work of a person, and is usually controlled by a computer ___________robot

someone who travels and works in a spacecraft ___________astronaut

Just for fun! A: What do you think your life will be like next month? B: My life will be a lot better than it is now!

Do you think you will have your own robot? Prediction about our life

Section 1 Before You Read What do the robots look like? What can the robots do? Do you know about robots?

What do they look like? They look like humans.

This robot looks like a huge arm. This one looks like a dog.

There are some other robots, what can they do? play football dance

help people do the most unpleasant jobs help with the housework

play the piano What can they do? talk

Which words and phrases do you think you will read in the passage? backpackpianodoctor Americapossibleswimmingless work buildingskoalaswaswill boredyears agocarshousework √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Title It tells us _______________________. Before you read, please read the title carefully and _____ what you may read and get ready for the reading. guess what the writing is about Reading strategies: Summary Summary

Topic sentence It is usually the ____ sentence of a paragraph and tells us ____________ of the paragraph. Key words first the main idea number, name of a person, a place, time and so on.

Section 2 While you Read

1. What can robots do in some science fictions? 2. What can robots do now? 3. What do some scientists think robots will do in the future? 4. What do some robots look like now? 5. What will robots look like in the future? What can a snake robot do? 6. What can a snake robot do?

请根据短文内容, 判断下列句子正 (T) 误 (F) 。 ( )1. All the scientists believe that people will have their own robots in hundreds of years. ( )2. James White doesn’t think that a robot will be able to do the same things as a person in the future. F T

( )3. If robots do the same things all the time, they will get bored. ( )4. In the future, new robots will have lots of different shapes. ( )5. There will be robots everywhere in the future and people won’t need to work at all. F F T

6. Robots will never get bored to do simple jobs over and over. ( ) 7. Humans will have more work to do in the future. ( ) 8. Space rockets seemed possible a hundred years ago. ( ) F F T

Section 3 After You Read Section 3 After You Read 3b Make sentences with the following phrases. … the same as… … make … do… … to take … (period of time) … to help do … … to help with …

Finish the passage. In some ______ fiction movies, People in the future have their ____ robots. These robots are just like ______. They help with the __________ and do the most __________ jobs. science own human housework unpleasant

Some _______ believe that there ___ __ such robots in the future. However, they _____ it may take _________ of years. Scientists are now _____ to make robots look like people and do the same things __ us. ________ ________ have already made robots walk and _____. This kind of robot will also __ fun __ _____. scientistwill be agree hundreds trying as Japanese scientists dance be to watch

But robot scientist James White ________. He thinks that it will be _______ for a robot to do the _____ things as a ______. ___ ________, it’s easy for a child to _____up and know _____ they are. Mr. White thinks that robots won’t be ____to do this. But other scientists disagree. They think that robots will be ____ to talk to people __ 25 to 50 years. disagrees difficult same person For example wake where able in

Robot scientists are not just trying to _____ robots look like people. For example, there are already robots _______ in factories. These robots look more like ____ _____. They do ______ jobs over and ____ again. People would not like to do such jobs and would get _____. But robots will _____ get bored. make working huge simple over bored never arms

In the future, there will be more robots __________, and humans will have ___ work to do. New robots will have many ________ _______. Some will look like humans, and others might look like ______. everywhere less different shapes snakes

After an __________, a snake robot could help look for people _____ ________. That may not ____ _______ now, but computers, _____ rockets and even electric ___________ seemed impossible a _______ years ago. We never know what will ______ in the future! under seem possible space toothbrushes hundred happen earthquake buildings

Language points 1. science fiction movies 科幻电影 2. unpleasant adj. 不高兴的 pleasant adj. 高兴的 pleasure n. 愉快, 快乐 pleased = happy adj. 高兴的, 开心的 be pleased with sb./ sth. 对 …… 很满意 be pleased to do sth. 做某事高兴

选用 pleasant pleasure pleased 填空 : --Thanks a lot. --That my ________. Our teacher was _______with our study. I think that will be a ________ trip. I am _______ to join you. pleasure pleased pleasant pleased

3. hundreds of 几百 hundreds of books 我校图书馆收藏着几百本书。 There are hundreds of books in our school library. = There are _ ___ hundred books in our school library. a few

4. It is/was/will be + 形容词 + for sb. + to do sth. 对某人来说做 …… 是 …… 5. wake up sb. 叫醒某人 不要叫醒我。 Don’t wake me up. 6. be able to + 原形 6. be able to + 原形 ( 可以用各种时态 ) = can + 原形 ( 只用在过去时和一般现在时 )

用 be able to, can 填空： 1.I don’t think you _____________ live to be When I was five, I ________________ swim. will be able to could / was able to

7. There be sb. + doing sth. 有某人正在做 …… 那时侯有四个人正在睡觉。 There were four persons sleeping at that time. = Four persons ___ _______ at that time. are sleeping 有个人正在讲话。 There is a man talking.

8. over and over 8. over and over 再三, 反复, 不断 婴儿喜欢反复说同一句话。 Babies like saying the same words over and over. 把这些话自己重复几遍吧。 Say the words over and over to yourself. 【同义词组】 【同义词组】 over and over again 反复, 再三，反复不断地

这个问题我们还需再三斟酌。 We will consider the problem over and over again. consider over and over again 再三考虑 再三考虑 explain over and over again explain over and over again 反复解释 反复解释

9. get bored = be bored = feel bored 10. sb. seem 形容词 名词 to do sth. + 某人看来似乎 …… After a while, I began to get / feel / be bored with my job. 过了一段时间，我开始厌烦这份工作。

他看来似乎病得很严重。 He seems/seemed very ill/ill badly. = He seems/seemed to be very ill/to be ill badly. 看来那件事是没可能的。 That thing seems/seemed impossible. = That thing seems/seemed __ __ _________. impossible to be

It seems/seemed that + 句子 看来 ….. 看来天要下雨了。 It seems that it will rain. 看来那只老虎要死了。 It seems that the tiger will die/is going to die /is dying.

翻译下列短语： 厌烦会 …… 再三将来 帮助 做 …… 醒来 和 …… 一 样的 …… 最令人不愉 快的工作 看起来更 像 …… 同 …… 交 谈 数以百计 的 …… 未来人 看起来 像 …… 一百年前 某人自己 的 …… 科幻电影 Homework

What ways do you think a robot will help you and your family in the future? Write your ideas. I think we will need robots for: _________________________________ cleaning the house, building the house

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