初中英语人教版八年级上册阅读活动.docx

Pre-reading(5 minutes):1.Show a video about robots and answer the questions.1.What do they look like ?2. What can they do ?(Two people in a group.)2.Ss talk something about robots.(Four people in a group.)While-reading(15 minutes):Skimming:1. Ss find out the main idea of each paragraph (match).Para.1 Will robots think like humans in the future?Para.2 What will robots be like in the future?Para.3 What can robots do today?Para.4 What are robots like in movies?Scanning:1.Read para.1,2 Answer the questions.1.What can robots do in movies?2.What can robots do in factories now?2. Read para.3 Mark T or F.1. Some robots in Japan cant walk and dance.2.Some scientists believe it will be easy to make robots think like a human.3. All of the scientists think that robots will be able to talk like humans in 25 or 50 years.4.Scientist James White thinks that robots will never be able to wake up and know where they are.3. Read para.4 , Translation(翻译)1.These new robots will have many different shapes. Some will look like humans, and others might look like animals.2. If buildings fall down with people inside, these snake robots can help look for people under the buildings.Post-reading(20 minutes):1. Do exercise 2c. Complete the sentences about what robots can do now.1. Robots can build _ in factories.2. They can do _ jobs many times and never get bored.3.Some can _and _.4. Some can help _ people under the _.2. Do exercise 2d. Retell the passage.Some robots are very human-like. They can walk and _ like people. Some scientists think that in the future they will _ robots more like humans. This may not _ in the near future, but at some point, robots will even be able to _ like people. However, some scientists _. 3.Discussion.Do you agree that hu