Unit 2 Looking into the Future Reading and Thinking 课件 2026-2027学年英语新人教版选择性必修第一册

该高中英语课件围绕“智能家居让生活更便捷”核心主题，系统呈现智能家居功能、优势及科普说明文特征。课堂导入通过Free-talk图片分析（男孩、机器人、宇宙象征意义）、SMART事物列举，结合名言搭建从已知（智能手机等）到未知（智能家居）的学习支架，引导学生自然进入主题。 其亮点在于融合思维品质（对比现在与未来控制方式、拟人修辞解析）、文化意识（引用创新名言）和语言能力（任务型活动）。如通过对比分析培养逻辑思维，小组讨论优缺点提升表达，思维导图总结文本结构。助力学生提升分析与沟通能力，为教师提供系统教学流程与多样化活动设计。

Unit 2 Looking into the future Reading and Thinking SMART HOMES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER Free-talk Q1:What can you see in the picture? Q2: What do the boy, the robot and the universe probably stand for? Q3: What message does this picture intend to convey? a little boy, a robot and the universe ♦the boy: human beings ♦the robot: science technology ♦the universe: the future ♦the possible future relationship between and . man technology 预测未来的最好方式就是去创造它。 The best way to predict the future is to create it. ——Peter Drucker SMART intelligent Do you have any “smart” things? What are they? smartphone smartwatch smartbracelet smart toilet It means that it can make decisions on its own without a human telling it what to do, and that it can also learn how to do things by itself. smart car smart sweeping robot What can a smart home do for us? For example, a smart home can control room temperature and lights. What do you think a “smart” house can do that other houses cannot? SMART HOMES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER To introduce some functions or advantages of smart homes subject The text mainly tells us that _____________________will make our life_________ from some aspects. smart homes easier Prediction 1. Skim the text quickly and answer the following questions: (1) What's the type of this text? (2) What's the structure of this text? (3) What's its purpose? (4) Who is the intended readers? exposition Title Introduction Body subtitle1 subtitle2 subtitle3 Conclusion To inform readers of smart homes Home owners who are interested in turning their homes smarter Skimming popular science exposition What is a popular science exposition? (科普说明文) 科普说明文是用以介绍和普及科学知识的一种文体。它一般发表在科普杂志、报纸或专门的科普专著中。 特点 ： 1. 说明性。科普说明文的写作目的在于介绍科学知识。是科普说明文，就要介绍科学知识。 2. 单一性。一篇科普说明文，一般只说明一个科学现象，介绍一种科学知识。 3. 通俗性。科普说明文介绍的知识多是普及性的，所以要求用通俗有趣的语言，深入浅出地进行说明。 Q1: Why does the writer begin the paragraph with two questions? Q2: What does "these kinds of things” refer to? Q3: What benefits will smart homes bring us? Para 1 to attract readers' interest to introduce the topic Intelligent Controls Today, we have to use switches, 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.. Q1: How do we control things in our home now? Q2: How do we control things in our home in the future? Q3: How does it work? With automatic control 自动控制 Para 2 Q3: How does it work? 1) use___________sensors（集成传感器） to tell when you leave and go into an energy-efficient mode（节能模式）all by__________. 2) learn your daily__________and____________. Everything will be_________when you get home. 3) All controls will respond to________ ________（语音指令）. integrated itself routine preferences ready voice commands Intelligent Controls Para 2 How does the writer show the automatic controls are intelligent? The future home will use integrated sensors to tell when you leave home each morning...Your home will also learn your daily routine and preferences... content: direct description Today, we have to use switches for our lights, knobs for our appliances...In the future, we will be using advanced technology every day for automatic... Structure: contrast The future home will use integrated sensors to tell when you leave home each morning...Your home will also learn your daily routine and preferences...Your lights will come on the instant you...All controls will respond to voice commands, so if ... ...every day for automatic control of just about everything in our home...and the go into an energy-efficient mode all by itself. You will no longer have to think about turning switches on and off yourself...so everything will be ready when you get home each evening. Your lights will come on the instant you enter the door...and you will find your dinner already prepared for you. All controls will respond to voice commands...you just say aloud what you want and the home system will obey. Language: rhetorical device (personification) Language: adj and adverb (vivid and strong) Topic sentence Supporting details Advantages will be monitoring your health Smart bed record how well you sleep check your body weight send a warning to your phone give suggestions on diet and sleep Smart toilet keep constant track of your health warn you early on will be able to prevent serious damage from accidents potentially save your life detect: a leaking water pipe a short in the electrical wiring provide you with the relevant information will be able to fix the problem in time Para.3 Regular Health Checks Para.4 No More Disasters General functions Examples Advantages Para 3&4 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. 1.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. the home of tomorrow is already the home of today 2. What is the writer’s attitude towards smart homes? optimistic, positive, hopeful, supportive Para 5 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 Title Introduction Examples Conclusion Para2. Intelligent controls Para3. Regular health checks Integrated sensors when you leave: when you get home: Para4. No more disasters Summary Draw a structure map of the text. 14 Discussion : work in groups What advantages and disadvantages do smart homes have? Post-reading Save energy Save time intelligent controls Monitor health Prevent disasters …… ? advantages disadvantages What is wrong? What will you consider to make it better? pulled out teeth, change in voice perhaps add facial recognition fingerprint code traditional lock and key … What might be some of the disadvantages of smart homes? 1. If the system breaks down, 2. If hackers hack into your system, 3. For older people, you may find yourself locked out of the house or unable to turn on your TV. will be stolen for evil purposes. it will be difficult to operate the system. your personal information “Innovation is the primary force guiding development.” --President Xi “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” 课文语法填空 Today, people need to lock doors or switch off electrical appliances by 1. (they), but in the future, smart homes will be used in people's life, which will offer people a more secure, energy-saving and comfortable environment 2. (live) in. Smart homes have many functions, 3. (include) intelligent controls, regular health checks and others and so on.In the future, people will be using 4. (advance) technology every day to automatically control everything in their homes, and even give their commands by loud voice to change their routines.In addition, smart homes 5. (monitor) your health every day. They can warn you early on if you have 6. critical illness, such as cancer, and 7. (potential) save your life.Even smart homes will be able to prevent serious damage 8. accidents.Although many of these new 9._______________ (innovate) are already available and being used in some homes, it will take some years 10. most new homes begin to use them completely. themselves to live including advanced will be monitoring a potentially from innovations before 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 Summary: Read the text again and fill in the table below. P15 3 A smart home is one that i_________ computers into the structure of the building itself. In this way, many of the things that we now do ourselves will become a_________. For example, the smart home could control the air conditioning and lights so that you would no longer have to turn s_________ on and off, making your home more energy-e_________. The smart home could also m________ itself to make sure that everything is working as it should, and send you w_________ if there is a problem. Such smart homes could even be programmed to d_______ your health problems, and then give you r________ 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. ntegrates utomatic witches fficient onitor arnings etect elevant Complete the summary using the correct forms of the words from the text. THANK YOU ! Lavf59.16.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v2.0.2 08 2 Skim the text and answer these questions. 人民教育电子音像出版社 普通高中教科书 英语 选择性必修 第一册 2020 vocal 237024.3 $