1. Module 7 Unit 2
Robots
5.12. by Jenny

2. robot

3. robot
a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans
be programmed and controlled by a computer

4. What robots look like
huge arm
human
alarm
snake
spider

5. What robots can do
waiter
talk
guide
play music
announcer
play balls
do cleaning

6. household /domestic robots entertainment robots surgical robots
Different kinds of robot
industrial robots
household /domestic robots
entertainment robots
surgical robots
bomb disposal robots …

7. Do you think a woman will fall in love with a robot?

8. Satisfaction
Guaranteed
Reading

9. Reading tips When you are reading narrations, it’s important to find:
◇ time
◇ space
◇ events
◇ characters

10. Skimming 2. What characters are mentioned in
1. What is the writing type of the passage?
A. Narrative writing (记叙文)
B. Essay (议论文)
C. Expository writing(说明文)
2. What characters are mentioned in
the story and who are they?
3. How is the text organized?
A. In order of time.
B. In order of space.
C. In order of importance.

11. Gladys Tony test out wife & husband Claire Larry Belmont
Reading: Satisfaction guaranteed
Tony
test out
Larry Belmont
Claire
wife & husband
Gladys
Gladys is rich and powerful, so Claire is _______with her.
green

12. 5.13. reading II

13. folded…bended…declare
Time
Tony
Claire
before meeting
refused
at the first sight
handsome…
alarmed
second morning
dressing
embarrassed
one day
sympathy
trust
thank
when in a shop
help…out
when working on the improvements
held …firmly
screamed
when at the party
folded…bended…declare
cried out
after the party
taken away
shouted/ cried

14. Satisfaction sad love proud trust accept refuse
How Claire’s emotion developed
Satisfaction
refuse
accept
trust
proud
love
sad

15. Careful reading 1. Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by women guests .

16. Careful reading
2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
He had prevented Claire from harming herself By making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.

17. Why should Tony be rebuilt?
rebuild?
Because the company (designers) cannot have women falling in love with machines.

18. We can infer from the passage that_____.
Claire liked Tony but feared him
Claire cried because Tony made her angry
Claire forgot Tony as soon as Tony left her
Tony had no feelings as human being.
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?

19.  F
1. Larry was going to be away from home so he hired a robot to accompany his wife Clair.
2. Clair didn’t like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at last.
3. When Tony, the robot, offered to help dressing, Clair was pleased to accept it. But she thought it was surprising for a robot to be so human.
4. Tony could understand Clair when she said she was not clever. T F T

20. 
5.Clair’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 into the town to buy things he needed to improve the house. T F T

21. 
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. F F T

22. Physical Mental Emotional Characteristic Similar Different
looks like a human being . Body and skin soft and warm. Hair and finger nails realistic. Voice like a human’s.
Facial expressions never change Quicker reactions
Able to make suggestions and predications. Able to make a plan and follow it through. Has good communication skills.
Behaviour not appropriate
Can show sympathy
Can give encouragement
Wants to please
Never experienced such a feeling as embarrassment

23. Underline the phrases 1.facial expressions 2.test out
3.social position
4. ring sb. up
5.turn around
6.manage to do
7.disappear from sight
8.be pleased with
9.leave /let…alone/be
10 look at…with wonder
11. more than
12. or rather
1. 脸部表情
2. 试验
3. 社会地位
4. telephone sb.
5. 回转，转向
6. succeed in doing sth.
7. 消失在视野中
8. be satisfied with
9. 让……一个人待着
10. 惊奇地看
11. 不仅仅
12. 或者说

24. Underline the phrases 13. 有暧昧关系 13. have an affair 14.对某人粗鲁
15. 改变某人的态度
16. 投其所好，为令其高兴.
17. 对… 印象深刻
18. 挫败感
19. 阻止做某事
20. 与… 相爱
13. have an affair
14. be rude to sb.
15. change one’s attitude
16. as a favour
17. be impressed by…
18. sense of failure
19. prevent …from doing
20. fall in love with …

25. the useful sentences 1.It was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human. (Para 3, Page11)
2.It was then that Clair realized that Tony had opened the curtains on the front window. (Para 1, Page12)

26. 
Homework:
1. Try to find out some useful expressions and phrases then do exercise 1 on page13 and exercise 1 on page 55.
2. Review the text and try to recite the text.
3. Find more information about robots from books, magazines, the Internet and so on.

28. Module 7 Unit 2
Period 2
Designer: Chen Xiaoping

29. 
1) Rewrite these sentences using words of similar meaning from the text to replace the underlined words or phrases.
1.Bill felt great pleasure whenever he finished a painting.
satisfaction
2.It was an easy win for our football team.
victory
3.Why were you away from the meeting yesterday?
absent
4.He felt pity for the families of the miners who died in the accident.
sympathy
5.The weather is so terrible that the only thing to do is to stay at home.
awful

30. 
6.Even though Jane told him many times to go away, he kept standing there.
leave her alone
7.Her greatest wish was to have more time for traveling.
desire
8. Could you call me as soon as he arrives?
ring me up
9. She looked at all the passengers’ faces carefully hoping to find her friend.
scanned
10. It is ridiculous that his own mother refuses to speak to him.
absurd

31. 
2) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word in brackets. Use your English-English dictionary when necessary.
1. The teacher didn’t believe Russell’s __________ of why he was late. ( explain )
2. Mrs Banks treats her students with __________ and will not put up with bad behavior. ( firm)
3. Jill dressed very __________ for her mother’s birthday party ( elegant )
4. As Delia didn’t have time to iron her shirt, she ______ it out with her hands. ( smooth )
explanation
firmness
elegantly
smoothed

32. 
5. Penny was a ________ pianist and had played in many theatres throughout the country. ( talent )
talented
6. Even though my father is very busy, he makes sure that he __________ some time to spend with me each evening. ( set aside )
sets aside
7. I have spent a lot of time training my dog but he is still not very __________. ( obey )
obedient
sense
8. Terry gained a great _______ of achievement by winning the painting competition. ( sense )

33. 
3) In the text there are some adjectives that describe feelings, such as alarmed. Find 6 other-ed adjectives in the text that describe feelings. Then use each adjective in a sentence to describe a situation when you or someone else had these feelings.
embarrassed amazed amused surprised impressed pleased
Example :
My mother felt alarmed when I had my hair colored purple. …

34.  other -ed adjectives aged blessed advanced conceited contented ……
crooked
cursed ……
other -ed adjectives

35. Molly Kate Molly Kate Kate Molly
Listening
1. Who really likes the story?
Molly
2. Who thinks that Claire loved Tony ?
Kate
3. Who thinks that Tony loved Claire ?
Molly
Who thinks that the purpose of Tony’s actions
was to make Claire feel good about herself.
Kate
5. Who thinks that humans will never be able to
make a robot like Tony ?
Kate
6. Who would really like a robot like Tony at
her house?
Molly

36. By seeing herself in a negative.
What does Kate think the difference
between robots and humans is?
Robots can’t feel emotion of any kind.
2. How does Kate think Claire was hurting
herself?
By seeing herself in a negative.
3. Why would one of the girls like a robot like Tony living at her house?
She likes the idea of a handsome man whose only purpose was to please her.

37. 4. What is the joke that Kate makes?
That Tony is really a man pretending to be a robot.
5. What does Kate think the company’s
biggest mistake was?
Making the robot look so much like
a real man.

38. think maybe suppose wonder guess believe
I don’t _______ robots can possibly feel emotion of any kind.
I ________ Tony loved Claire.
I __________ I just want to think he was more human than he was.
I ________ how they could actually make a robot seem as if he had emotions.
_________ Tony was just a very complicated computer.
I ________ that Tony was really a man pretending to be a robot.
I ________ that was the company’s biggest mistake.
believe
think
suppose
wonder
Maybe
think
guess

39. Do you think it is possible for a robot to
Discussion
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?

41. Unit 2 Robot

42. Is it a real girl?

43. What is a robot?
A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans.

44. Transformer

45. automan
bonus

46. elegant barbie dolls

47. piles of toys

48. Discussion
what can robots do
in our daily life ?

49. talk with
people
say hello to
people

50. clean the plane
Do the labour work

51. lead the way

52. Robots What can a robot do? act as a policeman /a seller
Talk with human
Do the housework
(cleaning,cooking
……..)
Take care of
children
Robots
Look for human
Do some shopping
And so on…
Play with human

53. Nowadays robots can be made into all kinds of shapes
for various uses.

54. Do you think a woman will fall in love with a robot?

55. Satisfaction
Guaranteed
Reading

56. Task 1: Fast reading (3m)
How many characters are there in the story?What are they?
2. What does Tony look like?
Larry Belmont: employee in a
company that made robots
Claire: Larry’s wife, a housewife
Tony: the robot
Gladys Claffern: a woman whom Claire envies

57. What does Tony look like?
---tall and handsome although his facial expressions never changed. His hair was smooth and black and his voice was deep.
feeling?

58. 1. Why did Claire feel alarmed at the sight of Tony?
A. Because he was a robot.
B. Because she did’t like him.
C. Because he was more like a being than a machine.
D. Because he never changed his facial expressions.

59. Careful reading 1. Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by women guests .
feeling?

60. Careful reading
2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
He had prevented Claire from harming herself By making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.

61. Careful reading 3. Why should Tony be rebuilt?
Because the company (designers) cannot have women falling in love with machines.

62. Find how Claire’s emotion developed.
At first refused to have Tony at her house
accept him
trust him
proud of him
love him
sad to remember he was just a machine

63. Write a summary of the whole text in about 30 words: (8m)
The story tells us that who + what + end
( In the end / finally …..)
The story tells us that Tony, a tested robot, was sent to Claire’s house to do the housework. He not only made her and her home elegant but also made her fall in love with him. In the end the experiment was satisfying.

64. Careful reading
4. How would you feel if you had a robot like Tony in your house?

65. Charac- teristics Similar Physical
Different
Physical
Looks like a human being.
Body and skin soft and warm.
Hair and fingernails realistic.
Voice like a human’s
Facial expressions never changed

66. Charac-
teristics
Similar
Different
Mental
Able to make suggestions .
Able to make a plan and follow it through.
Has good communication skills.
Behaviour not appropriate. (Tony brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing)

67. Charac-teristics Similar
Different
Emotional
Never experienced such a feeling as embarrassment
Can show sympathy
Can give encouragement
Wants to please

68. Take a break!

69. industrial robots domestic robots entertainment robots surgical robots
Different kinds of robot
industrial robots
domestic robots
entertainment robots
surgical robots
bomb disposal robots
airborne robots …

70. Tony asked whether she needed help dressing. amazed
How did Claire feel?
What happened?
She saw Tony was ___ and ______. His hair was ______ and _____and his voice was _______.
Tony asked whether she needed help dressing.
amazed
By his _________ and the _______ and ________of his skin.
? ______________
Tony caught her in time, held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body.
handsome
tall
alarmed
smooth
black
deep
embarrassed
fingernails
softness
warmth
Happy, surprised, shy

71. She remembered Tony was just a machine. surprise
How did Claire feel?
What happened? ?
_______________
Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers and declared that he didn’t want to leave her and that he felt more than just the desire to please her.
She was envied by those women.
She remembered Tony was just a machine.
surprise
happy
sad

72. 2. The robot Tony helped Claire to realize her dreams by______.
A. making her home elegant
B. giving her a new haircut and changing the make-up she wore
C. giving her advice on her dresses
D. all the above
3. As a result, the experiment shows_______.
A. Claire and Tony fell in love with each other
B. Tony had to be rebuilt
C. Tony was angry with his designer
D. Both A and B

73. 4. All the following statements are true except _______.
Tony tried to please Claire
Claire tried to displease Tony
Tony managed to protect Claire
Gladys admired Claire for her Tony
5. We can infer from the passage that_____.
Claire liked Tony but feared him
Claire cried because Tony made her angry
Claire forgot Tony as soon as Tony left her
Tony had no feelings as human being.

75. Speaking & Writing
Imagine you are engineers in a company that makes robots and you have been asked to design a new type of robot. Your robot can be used :
In the home (2) In a workplace
(3)In the street
(4)In the natural environment
(5)In space or anywhere else

76. 1.Decide the purpose of the robot.
You are divided into groups of four to design your robot. You can follow the steps as below:
1.Decide the purpose of the robot.
2. Make a list of the abilities the robot has.
3.Draw a picture on a piece of paper and name its parts and explain what each part does.
4.Write a paragraph describing the robot and what it can do.
5. Introduce your design to your classmates.

77. Tips on designing your robots:
For each robot that you build, you will have to choose options for six major robot characteristics. These are:
Looks: What does the robot look like? Is there a reason for it to look as it does?
Sensing: How does the robot “know” or figure out what’s in its environment?

78. It’s your time to design your group’s robot.

79. A sample writing:
The rubbish collector
The rubbish collector is a robot about half the size of a small car. Its body is square and contains a large rubbish bin inside it. It has a camera attached to the top front of its body. Also at the front is a pair of arms. Underneath it has four wheels and six legs. With the camera it can “see” rubbish such as paper, glass, and plastic. If the surface of the ground is smooth, it runs on its wheels, and if the ground is rough, it unfolds its legs and walks.

80. When it sees a piece of rubbish, it stops and uses its arms to pick it up and put it in its rubbish bin. However, when it sees a person, an animal or a plant, it goes around it as it is able to recognize when something is not a piece of rubbish.
The company should make this robot as it would be very popular with schools. It would clean the outside grounds of the school and so give the students more time to spend on their studies. It would also be a great advantage to have at sports grounds or any other area where rubbish is dropped by the public.