内容正文:
U4 Reading1 Artificial intelligence: friendly or frightening
Learning aims:
By the end of this section, students will be able to:
1. Predict the structure of the article according to the title and the pictures;
2. Get to know the main idea of each paragraph by locating the topic sentences.
3. Finding out some details including the development of AI, the benefits and potential
threats of the development of AI.
Learning important and difficult points:
1. to understand the author’s writing techniques.
2. To identify the purpose of the popular science article.
3. To analyze the author’s attitudes towards the development of AI.
Learning steps:
师生合作(集体备课)
补充完善(二次备课)
Step 1. Lead in
Artificial intelligence has greatly changed our lives.
1.What can you do with AI?
2. Have you heard of face recognition system?
Step2. Reading for the gist
Task1. predict the structure of the text.
The title:_________________________________
The pictures:_____________________________
Task2. get the main idea of each paragraph
Paragraph1: AI can make your dream come true.
Paragraph2:_______________________________
Paragraph3:_______________________________
Paragraph4:_______________________________
Paragraph5:_______________________________
Paragraph6:_______________________________
Part1:( )_____________________________
Part2:( )_____________________________
Part3:( )_____________________________
Step3. Reading for details
Task1. read paragraph1 and answer the following questions.
1. How does the author begin the popular science article?
2. What’s the function of doing so?
Task2. read paragraph2 and find the following questions.
1. What’s one essential aim of AI?
2. What is one approach to the aim?What’s it about?
Task3. Read paragraph3 and understand the events of the development of AI by filling the form.
Since the 1940s
Years before the mid-1950s
In the mid-1950s
In 1997
In 2007
What’s the major breakthrough?
What happened in 2017?
Task4. read par