内容正文:
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
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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.
Learning Objectives
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Rules:
No.1 Answer me with: Yes, sir! / No, sir!
No.2 If you have any problems, put your hands up.
No.3 I need a Marker to help me.
No.4 Group competition, 4 groups.
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Activity 1: Discussion
Watch a video and discuss how our lives will change in the future.
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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
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make our lives
more interesting
more convenent
much easier
...
smart phones
Activity 2: Brainstorm
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Do you know any other smart products? If so, what are they?
smart sweeping robot
smart closestool
smartwatch
smart robots
smart bin
Combine these together, we could make a
Activity 3: Have a guess
smart home
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subtitles(副标题)
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1. What is the type of this text?
A. A narration (记叙文)
B. A popular science exposition (科普说明文)
C. An argumentation (议论文)
D. A science fiction story (科幻故事)
2.What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To sell integrated sensors.
B.To change the old houses.
C.To decorate home with smart technology.
D.To give us an insight into smart homes.
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Activity 4: Prediction
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3.Who do you think is the intended audience?
SMART HOMES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER
Intelligent Controls
Regular Health Checks
No More Disasters
Activity 4: Prediction
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价格跳楼了,20一盒
脆甜清爽,板扎得很
Those who want to know about samrt home or smart divices.
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Activity 5: Review & Reading
switch off/on 关闭/打开 not-too-distant future 不远的将来
secure 安全的 remote 偏远的
automatic 自动的 integrated 综合的
efficient 效率高的 mode 模式;风格
routine 常规的 preference 更喜欢
instant 立刻;马上 warring 线路
abnormal 不正常的 leaking 漏洞;裂缝
detect 发现;查明 relevant 相关的
fantasy 幻想;想象 innovation 创新;创造
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Skim the topic sentence of each paragraph. Read and translate.
Activity 6: Learn & Use strategy
Skimming:
Look at the headings, subheadings,keywords,skip details and take notes.
Para.1
Para.2
Para.3
Para.4
Para.5
The last sentence.
In the middle of it.
The first sentence.
The first sentence.
The first sentence.
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Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
Intelligent Controls
Regular Health Checks
No More Disasters
The last para
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Time limit: 10 min
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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?
Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
To rise interest
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Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
Intelligent Controls
Regular Health Checks
No More Disasters
The last para
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Time limit: 10 min
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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
Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
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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.
Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
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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.
Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
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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
... ...
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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.
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T1: What does the writer want to show by using these examples?
How smart homes work.
T2: What are the benefits of these intelligent tools for us?
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
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T3: How does the writer organize this paragraph?
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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.
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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
Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
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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.
Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
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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?
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Activity 6: Jigsaw reading
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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
Activity 7: Retell
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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.
Activity 8: Brainstorm
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Think carefully and draw a mind 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
Activity 9: Mind-map
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P15: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
Activity 9: Exercise
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What advantages and disadvantages do smart homes have?
Activity 9: Further discussion
Advantages?
Pros
Disadvantages?
Cons
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What advantages and disadvantages do smart homes have?
Advantages
Disadvantages
intelligent controls
If there is a problem in the system, something terrible will happen.
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saving energy
saving time
monitoring health
preventing disasters
a problem with the system/power failure
security will be a problem.
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Activity 9: Further discussion
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
---Peter Drucker
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‘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.
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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.(Choose)
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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
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