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BOOK2 UNIT3 USING LANGUAGE ANDY- THE ANDROID 成田高级中学

蔡燕华

Teaching Aims：

1.

Help the students to learn about what android can do. 2.

Read about androids or robots.

3.

Enable the students to discuss to design their own robots. 4.

Enable students to discuss whether the androids will replace humans in the future. Teaching Important and Difficult Points：

How to design their own robots. Teaching Methods：

1.Task-based learning. 2.Cooperative learning. Teaching Aids：

A multimedia. Teaching Procedures：

Step 1 Free Talk: What do you think android can do?

Step 2 Reading

I Fast Reading Read the passage carefully and fill in the file for Andy. Name: _____

Appearance: _________________ Size: ________________ Ability: __________________________ Job: ________

Character : ______________________ II Careful Reading ⑴Read the text carefully to find the answers to the

following questions. 1. How often are the androids allowed to get together to play a football game? 2. What helps Andy to move and think like a human?

3. What does Andy’

programmer program him with ? 4. What is Andy’s opinion about the match in Seattle? 5. After losing the match in Seattle, what does Andy think they should do? ⑵True or False: 1. I am a striker, so I can run very fast.

2. In the game, I sometimes speak to my teammates in English. 3. I think the result of the match in Seattle was unexpected. 4. All the moves of Andy are programmed by the programmer.

Step 3After Reading

Andy is a ______ in the football team and he can ____ very fast. Last year their team went to Seattle, and took part in a football competition. They won the ______ place.

But Andy was not ______with the result, because he thinks that the team who won the first place _______, as they had a new kind of program ___________just before the competition. So he wants to tell his

___________and _______to improve his __________ so that they can create an even better _____. They can be programmed with all possible moves and even _____ ____ new moves by themselves. Their __________brain can never forget anything.

Step 4 Discussion I In small groups, discuss how to design your own android. And don’t forget to use the following expressions in your discussion. 1. What would you like it to look like? 2. What are some of the things you would like it to do? 3. Do you want it to be like a man or a woman, or neither? 4. How much would it cost?

I think that…

In my opinion…

I believe that…

What’s your reason? I had decided that…

II Create your own android. Fill in the file, and compare with your partner. Name: _____

Job: ________________ Size: _____________________________

Appearance: _______________________ Character: _________________________ Ability: ____________________________

____________________________

____________________________ Step 5 Debate Will the androids replace humans in the future?And don’t forget to use the following expressions. I agree/ disagree because…

In my opinion…

I ( don’t ) think that…

I believe that…

Step 6 Homework Compare the designs of the androids of each group and try to decide which one is the best.