原创教学设计 Excellent Teaching Design 5. when he helped her with the salesmancalled him a dear 6. when she fell off a ladder and caught by tonyfelt his warmth
7. when she heard gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as tonyfelt being envied
8. she remembered tony was just a machinecried all night then discuss the comprehending questions on page 12 in groups.
t: let’s read the text carefully and then do the comprehending exercises on page 12.
several minutes later check the answers with the whole class.
t: from the development of her emotion, we can see tony was designed as a mr. perfect. he is designed not to harm claire or allow her to be harmed. this is one of isaac’s three laws for robots. later in this unit we will learn more about his three laws. characteristics of science fiction
t: as you know, the story was written in 1951. with the development of science, some of the functions performed by tony have come true. from this story we can draw a conclusion: science fiction is often based on scientific principles and
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原创教学设计 Excellent Teaching Design technology. science fiction may make predictions about life in the future. please remember these are some characteristics of science fiction. if you are interested, you may write short science fictions in your spare time. explanation
during this procedure, play the tape recording for students. students will underline the difficult sentences. after listening to the recording, explain the difficult sentences to students. before explaining the difficult points, students are asked to refer to the notes to the text on pages 88-89.
t: do you have any difficulties with the text？
s1:could you please explain the sentence to us：she felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.
t: because tony didn’t look like a machine at all, when tony offered to help her get dressed, she was embarrassed, perhaps shy to get a “man” help her get dressed.
s2: how to understand this sentence: claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
t: in spite of the fact that tony looked so human, he was just a machine. so claire thought it was foolish that tony offered her sympathy. do you have any other questions? ss: no.
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原创教学设计 Excellent Teaching Design t: maybe someday we will have robots that have feelings and can also think for themselves. please remember science fiction reflects scientific thought; things-to-come based on things-on-hand. ok, that’s all for today. don’t forget to surf the internet to learn more about the great writer and his stories. of course you will learn more about robots. step ⅰ homework
remember the characteristics of science fiction.
surf the internet to learn more about robots and science fictions.
surf the internet to learn about isaac asimov.
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高二英语：Unit 2The First Period Reading教学设计
