选修 7 Unit 2 马林霞

Period III

Listen to two students discussing about Claire and Tony What does Kate think the difference between robots and human is? How does Kate think Claire was hurting herself? What is the joke that Kate makes? What does Kate think the company’s biggest mistake was?

Who’s the original writer of “Satisfaction Guaranteed”?

First reading Which paragraph tells you when and where Asimov was born and died? Which paragraph tells you about the education? Which paragraph tells you about awards he received?

Timeline of his Life Events (Time limits: 5m) DateEvent 1920Born in Russia Parents bought a candy shop 1929 Mother had her third child. Started to take himself seriously as a writer 1939 Gained master’s degree in chemistry.

DateEvent 1942Finished working in the candy store Got PhD in chemistry Became a biochemistry teacher, Bston University School of Medicine. 1950Published his first novel. __________________________. Developed three laws for robots Published “ The Foundation Trilogy” and won an award for it.

DateEvent Published first science book. Became a full-time writer. 1973Divorced his first wife. Published his first novel. Had a blood transfusion. Became infected with HIV. 1992

What’s the first law for robots developed by Isaac Asimov? “ A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured.” Group work: What are the other two laws might be? Write them down and discuss them with the whole class

1st law: A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured. 2nd law: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings (as long as human beings are not injured.) 3rd law: a robot must protect its own existance ( as long as human beings are not injured and as long as the robot does not disobey the human beings).

Discussion What might happen in a world where there were robots if Asimov’s three laws did not exist?

Writing 1. Collocation Go over the text, trying to recognize the collocations, treat them as single blocks of language and copy them out into your Collocation Book.

Samples: Collocations from “A Biography of Isaac Asimov” science fiction stories, have both an extraordinary imagination and an amazing mind, give…the ability to explore …, search for explanations of …,

2. Make your own timeline DateEvent

3.Write your own story with the collocations from “A Biography of Isaac Asimov”, trying to use the following Chronological Sequence Chronological Sequence after, afterward, as soon as, before, during, finally, first, following, immediately, initially, later, meanwhile, next, not long after, now, on (date), preceding, second, soon, then, third, today, until, when

Homework Complete the biography of your own.