Unit2 Listening and Speaking课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Using Language Make predictions about future changes 1.Watch the video and learn: what is AI? Leading-in 2.What do these pictures show? Match the words with pictures. ___ automation ___ nanobots ___ global warming ___ artificial intelligence (AI) ___ cloning ② ③ ④ ⑤ ③ ② ⑤ ① ④ ① 自动化 纳米/微型机器人 克隆技术 1.While most often when people think of a robot, they think of the android (human-like robot) in Picture 1, actually the vast majority of robots are like that in Picture 3, which is a robot arm used to assemble (组装) parts in a factory. In this activity, the robot arm in Picture 3 represents automation. Since an android is meant to be like a human in every way, the android in Picture 1 is being used to represent artificial intelligence (AI). ③ ① 3.Some cultural notes 2.Picture 2 is an artist’s rendering (透视图) of nanobots in the human blood stream. A nanobot is a microscopic (微小的) robot. While they are still in the development stage, it is thought that in the future, nanobots can be used within the human body to deliver carefully targeted doses (剂量) of medicine to areas in the body that need them and to repair human tissues (组织)and cells. 3.The two monkeys in Picture 4 are Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two crab-eating macaques(食蟹猕猴) which were produced by the Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院) in Shanghai in 2017 through cloning. They were the first successfully cloned primates (灵长目动物). Pre-listening Listen for predictions When listening for predictions, you should listen for the use of the future tense, in particular the future tense with will or will be doing. Words such as predict, prediction and forecast, are also used quite often when making predictions. 1.Listening Tips 2.How can we predict the future? 1 Future events or problems the world would face 2 Future technologies or solutions 4 The challenges and opportunities the things might bring 3 How the things will change the way we live 1. What is Dr. Han’s occupation? A. professor B