创意设计魅力无限

选修7 Unit2 Robots是一篇介绍机器人的文章，属科幻小说，讲述某公司试验机器人托尼的故事。托尼来到克莱尔的家，帮她做家务，为她排忧解难，不但使她的家变得更有品位，而且帮助克莱尔克服心理障碍、重塑自身形象。更不可思议的是，在三周的试验期内，机器人托尼竟让克莱尔对他产生了感情上的依恋!故事细致入微地显露了克莱尔矛盾恍惚的内心世界，栩栩如生地描绘了托尼某些富有人性化的细节，这种亦真亦幻的故事情节充分反映出科幻文学作品的独特魅力，引起学生的极大兴趣。我在教学中将淡化语言点和语法知识的简单传授，采用任务型教学法和小组合作探究学习法，从而扩大课堂的语料输入量及学生的语言输出量。

Step 1.Warming-up

Ask the students to read a robot poem.

热身设计意图：让学生以轻松愉快的心情进入课堂学习状态。

Step 2.Fast reading

1.Jigsaw(拼图游戏)：The teacher cuts each paragraph of the text into a littlestrip.shuffles the strips.and gives each group a strip.The goal is for students to de-termine where each of their paragraphs belongs in the whole context of the story.tostand in their position once it is determined，and to read off the reconstructed story.

2.Ask Ss to find the relationships between the characters in the text，

Larry Belmont――employed in a company that made robots，

Claire Belmont――Larry's wife，a housewife

Tony the robot

Gladys Claffern――a woman that Claire envies

3.Let the students skim the text quickly and then answer these questions below，see if they can catch the main idea of the text and choose the best answer for each ofthe fellowing questions：

1)We can infer that the passage is probably――.

A.a science fiction

B.an introduction to a new product

C.a real-life report

D.a page from a person's diary

2)The world“elegant”in bold in paragraph 2 means――.

A.polite

B.pleasingly neat and simple

C.nice and lovely

D.having the qualities of grace and beauty

Key：1)A 2)D

小组活动设计意图：任务一是一个有趣的阅读活动，学生在完成拼图游戏(把打乱的课文的各个段落的顺序排列好)的同时，对课文的大意实际上就有了一定的了解。任务二和三是快速限时阅读，把阅读课文作为整体来处理，检查学生对课文中的事实的表层理解，养成良好的阅读习惯，提高阅读技能。本环节难度不高，即便学困生也能完成此任务。成功给人以最大的满足，产生自豪感，增强学习毅力。

Step 3，Intensive reading

1.Claire's feelings towards Tony changed as the story developed.Read the storyand fill in the occasions when Claire had these feelings.

Suggested Answers：

a.Before he arrived

b.When he offered to help her dress

c.When he offered to help her improve her house and herself

d.When he helps her with the salesman

e.When she fell 0ff a ladder and caught by Tony

f.When she heard Gladys whispering

g.She remembered Tony was just a machine

2.Ask Ss to look through the following sentences and try to find whether they aretrue or false according to the text.

(1)On the second morning，Tony brought Claire breakfast and then dressed her.

(2)Tony wanted to please Claire by borrowing books from the library.

(3)Tony gave Claire a new haircut and made her up.

(4)When Claire fell off a ladder，Tony caught her.

(5)At last，people managed to have women falling in love with machines.

Suggested Answers：(1)F(2)F(3)T(4)T(5)F

小组活动设计意图：

在快速阅读环节对课文表层理解的基础上，进行正误判断、课文内容回答等对课文的深层理解。同组的学生互相配合，分工合作，交流意见，最终确定各段的大意，理清文章的内容。在阅读过程中，教师鼓励学生自己发现文章中的疑难点(包括部分生词)，并通过小组合作，解决疑难点。

Step 4，Discussion in groups

1).List Tony's characteristics that were similar to those of a human being and different from those of a human being.

Suggested Answers：

1、a human being 2、warm 3、realistic 4、a human's 5、never change 6、reaction 7、make suggestions 8、make a plan 9、communication 10、appropriate

21).Do you think it is a good idea to have a robot like Tony to work in your family?

小组活动设计意图：

运用任务教学法对机器人的研究、探讨。相互交流彼此的意见，达到最终一致而完成自己的任务，人人都有均等参与的机会。充分发挥了学生的主观能动性，让学生动起来，让他们自动地投身于语言学习的活动中，使他们能在课堂教学活动中真正有一种学习主人的滋味，有一种成功的渴望和感受。把他们的表现欲充分调动起来，敢于表现自己，敢于运用所学的语言表达自己的观点、看法和思想。调动学生的创造性思维，开发学生的智力潜能，提高学生的创造思维能力。把教学活动变成了真正的交际活动，并将课堂活动推向高潮。在教学过程中学生之间的交流和相互启发、帮助和鼓励，学生从获得知识过渡到对新知识的理解、掌握和运用，激发学生的学习主动性和积极性，使学生变被动为主动，变浅层次的参与为深层次的参与。通过交际发现问题，修正错误，得到提高。伙伴间融洽的气氛使相互间的纠错容易接受，免却了学生的畏惧心理。学生将所领会到的知识、技能运用到另一个情景中去，使学生能鲜明地感受到学习的意义，充分展示课堂魅力。

Step 5，Homework

Suppose you are working for a robot company.Design a robot on the paper.andintroduce it to your classmates.Your robot can be used：

(1)In the home(2)In a workplace(3)In the street

(4)In the natural environment(5)In space or anywhere else

任务型活动设计意图：

将课堂小组活动延伸到课外，学生仍然可以互相合作完成该写作任务。该环节是本课所有教学环节的延续，通过写的练习使学生逐步学会使用文段中的语言素材，活用固定的表达方法，学生需要用所学的语言讨论自己感兴趣的话题，表达自己的思想，与同伴交流各自了解的信息，达到形成和提高写作能力与技巧的目的。