Unit 2 Looking into the future Reading and Thinking (情境教学课件）-【上好课】高二英语同步高效课堂(人教版2019选择性必修第一册）

Reading and Thinking Unit 2 Looking into the Future Smart Home to Make Life Easier 人教版2019选择性必修第一册 学科网-湛江市李海艳名师工作室团队作品 1. Figure out the structure and language features of the reading passage and identify the purpose and the intended readers. 2. Get the main idea of each paragraph and know the influence and convenience brought by smart homes in the future. 3.Understand and describe the function and the benefit of intelligent controls, regular health checks and no more disasters. 4. Express opinions on smart technology through critical thinking. 01. Learning Objectives 02. Lead -in Discussion Watch a video and discuss how our lives will change in the future. In the morning, when I was driving my car to school,my phone suddenly rang . But I couldn’t pick upthe phone while driving, so I asked my smart phone to answer it. Q1:What other smart functions do you know about smart phones? Q2:What benefits can smart phones bring us? 02. Lead -in Activity :Brainstorm 02. Lead -in What functions and benefits can smart phones bring us? Functions Benefits Surf the Internet shop online play games watch online movies listen to music take courses ... make our lives more interesting more convenent much easier ... smart phones 02. Lead -in Do you know any other smart products? If so, what are they? smart sweeping robot smart closestool smartwatch smart robots smart bin Will there be smart homes in the future? 03. Pre-reading Prediction 1.What is the type of this text? 2.What is the purpose of the text? 3.Who do you think is the intended audience? SMART HOMES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER Intelligent Controls Regular Health Checks No More Disasters 04. While-reading Activity Skim the topic sentence of each paragraph and answer questions. 04. While-reading Group competition Read Paragraph 1 and answer the following questions. Have you ever forgotten to lock the door of your house? Or, have you ever forgotten to switch off the TV or computers? These kinds of things happen to us all the time, waste resources, and can sometimes lead to problems. However, in the not-too-distant future, we will be living in smart homes that will lock the door for us when we are away and remember to switch off the TV when we forget. These smart homes will keep us secure, save us energy, and provide a more comfortable environment to live in. Q1. Is there a topic sentence in this paragraph? Q2.Why does the writer start the paragraph with two questions? Q3.What will smart homes be like in the future ?What is the writer’s attitude towards it? How do you know? Q4.In what ways will smart homes benefit us? 04. While-reading Read Paragraph 2 and finish the following tasks. Intelligent Controls Today, we have to use swithes for our lights, knobs for our appliances, and remote controls for our TVs and air conditioners. In the future, we will be using advanced technology every day for automatic control of just about everything in our home. The future home will use integrated sensors to tell when you leave home each morning, and then go into an energy-efficient mode all by itself. That you can connect to from far away, using an electronic link having controls that work without needing a person to operate them in which many different parts are closely connected and work successfully together 04. While-reading Read Paragraph 2 and finish the following tasks. You will no longer have to think about turning switches on and off yourself. Your home will also learn your daily routine and preferences, so everything will be ready for you when you get home each evening. Your lights will come on the instant you enter the door and along with your favourite music or TV programmes, and you will find your dinner already preared for you. All controls will respond to voice commands, so if you want to change your routine, you just say aloud what you want and the home system will obey. T1.What makes all these intelligent controls possible? The integrated sensors. 04. While-reading Group work T2.Disucss in groups and find out the function and the benefit of intelligent controls. Functions Benefits Each morning: use integrated sensors to tell... go into an energy-efficient mode... no longer have to... keep us secure/save us energy Each evening: learn your daily routine and preferences get everything ready:your lights/favourite music or TV provide a more comfortable environment to live in Change of routine: respond to your voice commands In the future , we will be using advanced technology every day for automatic control of just about everything in our home. 04. While-reading T3: What does “intelligent” mean here? In regard to technology, it means flexible/adaptable/changeable,allowing it to respond to our changes/desires. what? why? Sensitive ...will use integrated sensors... Efficient, automatic ...when you leave your home... all by itself Considerate ...learn your daily routine... Relaxing ...anything will be... your dinner... your favourite music... Easy to control ...you just say aloud and it will respond ... ... 04. While-reading Read Paragraph 3 and finish the following tasks. Regular Health Checks In addition, your smart home will be monitoring your health for you every day. Your bed, for example, will record how well you sleep every night. It will also be checking your body weight. If you start to have sleep or weight problems, it will send a warning to your phone. It will also give you suggestions on a healthier diet and how to sleep better. Smart toilets will be keeping constant track of your health as well. They can warn you early on if there is something abnormal or if you have a critical illness, such as cancer, and potentially save your life. different from what is usual or expected serious, uncertain and possibly dangerous The writer show us the function by giving some examples. 04. While-reading T1: What does the writer want to show by using these examples? How smart homes work. T2: What does the writer want to show by using these examples? It keeps us secure from diseases. Functions Benefits Beds will record... will also check... will send a warning... will also give you suggestion on... Toilets will keep constant track of... will warn you early on... improve your health protect your health potentially save your life 04. While-reading T3: How does the writer organize this paragraph? A general introduction Examples(Functions/Benefits) 04. While-reading Read Paragraph 4 and answer the following questions. No More Disasters Smart home will be able to prevent serious damage from accidents. For example, if a water pipe starts leaking, or if there is a short in the electrical wiring, your smart home will detect it and provide you with the relevant information. This way, you will be able to fix the problem before your home becomes flooded or catched fire. to allow liquid or gas to get in or out through a small hole or crack to discover or notice sth,especially sth that is not easy to see, hear , etc. 04. While-reading Discussion Q1: What does the last subheading “No more Disasters” mean? Smart homes will be able to prevent serious damage from accidents. Q2: How does the writer show us this function? By using examples. Q3: What function will it have and will be its benefits? Functions will detect problems: water pipe leakage, electrical writing shortages Benefits You will be able to fix the problem in time(avoid probles /disasters 04. While-reading Read the text again and fill in the table below. In the future, what will smart homes do about…? doors dinners TVs, computers beds water pipes, electrical wires toilets lights, favourite music, or TV programmes lock the door for us when we are away switch off TVs and computers when we forget detect the problem and provide us with the relevant information already prepared record how well we sleep, check our body weight, send a warning to our phones , give us suggestions on a healthier diet and how to sleep better keep constant track of our health and warn us early about something abnormal come on the instant we enter the door 04. While-reading Read Paragraph 5 and finish the following tasks. This smart technology is not a fantasy. Many of these new innovations are already available and being used in some homes. In this sense, the home of tomorrow is already the home of today. Nevertheless, it will take some years before most new homes begin to use this new technology. a pleasant situation that you imagine but that is unlikely to happen the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing sth. Q1: What is meant by the sentence “In this sense, the home of tomorrow is already the home of today?” Since many of these new innovations are already available, the era of “future” smart homes has already arrived. 04. While-reading Brainstorm Brainstorm some factors may contribute to the slow changes: the technology is not yet fully developed; concerns about privacy leakage; the high price of new technology ; many believe smarat technology is not essential; a mistrust of new technology and its safetay. 04. While-reading This smart technology is not a fantasy. Many of these new innovations are already available and being used in some homes. In this sense, the home of tomorrow is already the home of today. Nevertheless, it will take some years before most new homes begin to use this new technology. Q2: What is the writer’s attitude towards smart homes? optimistic;positive;hopeful;supportive Q3:What's your attitude towards smart homes? ... The best way to predict the future is to create it. ---Peter Drucker 04. While-reading Activity Read the text carefully and draw a structure map of the text. Monitor your health your bed: your toilet: Prevent serious damage: Para5. The situation of smart homes Smart homes: Benefits Para1: a brief introduction of smart homes Para2. Intelligent controls Para3. Regular health checks Integrated sensors when you leave: when you get home: Para4. No more disasters Title Introduction Examples Conclusion 05. Post-reading Exercise Complete the summary using the correct forms of the words from the text. A smart home is one that__________computers into the structure of the building itself. In this way, many of the things that we now do ourselves will become_________.For example, the smart home could control the air conditioning and lights so that you would no longer have to turn________ on and off, making your home more energy-________.The smart home could also_______itself to make sure that everything is working as it should, and send you___________if there is a problem. Such smart homes could even be programmed to_______your health problems, and then give you___________advice as to the food you should eat or if you should see a doctor. So, in a sense, smart homes will lead us to living smarter lives. integrates automatic switches efficient monitor warnings detect relevant 05. Post-reading Activity Discussion : work in groups What advantages and disadvantages do smart homes have? 05. Post-reading Activity What advantages and disadvantages do smart homes have? advantages disadvantages intelligent controls If there is a problem in the system, something terrible will happen. ... saving energy saving time monitoring health preventing disasters a problem with the system/power failure security will be a problem. ... 06. summary and Homework Sum up what have you learned from this class? ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’ So I do hope each of you can create an awesome future to achieve your predictions through your efforts. 06. summary and Homework Homework:Mind map 1.Read the text again and underline the difficult long sentences and try to translate them into Chinese. 2. Talk with your partners in groups and draw a mind map about your future life. 07. Teaching Evaluation Form Teaching Evaluation Form Checklist assessment self group other groups teacher Content Does he/she answer the questions clearly? Does he/she list the concrete reasons? Structure Are the ideas presented clearly and logically? Language Does the presentation contain the words/expressions we have learnt this class? Does he/she speak fluently? Suggestion Thank you for your listening 学科网-湛江市李海艳名师工作室团队作品 $$