Unit 4 A Glimpse of the Future Starting out & Understanding ideas 学案-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

【学生版】Unit 4 Period 1 Starting out & Understanding ideas（配套） 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To understand the prediction of future in the past, talk about the possibility of prediction coming true 2 To know the different opinions on AI, analyse the structure of the passage and its language features by reading, then share your view on AI 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一: To understand the prediction of future in the past, talk about the possibility of prediction coming true Activity 1: Watch the video and answer the questions. 1 What predictions about the future were made? Were they correct? 2 What is your understanding of “the future has unlimited possibilities”? Answers: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Activity 2: Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1 Have you watched any of these films? What stories do they tell about the future of our world? 2 Do you think the events in these films could come true? What do you think the world will be like in the future? __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ 目标二: To know the different opinions on AI, analyse the structure of the passage and its language features by reading, then share your view on AI Activity 1: Read the facts about AI and answer the questions. Milestones in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1950 Mathematician and logician, Alan Turing devised the Turing Test, a test on the ability of machines to show human-like intelligence. 1955 Computer scientist, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”. 1972 Shakey, the first mobile robot able to make decisions according to reason, was completed. 2001 The Electrolux Trilobite, the first robotic vacuum cleaner designed for home use, went on sale. 2015 AlphaGo became the first computer program to beat a human professional Go player. 2017 AlphaGo Zero beat the previous version of AlphaGo by 100 games to nil. 1 What