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1、Robots,What is a robot? How is a robot work? Can you list some kinds of robots you know about? What can these robots do,Do you think it is possible for a robot to: think for itself? have feelings? have its own needs and desires? look and feel like a human being,Satisfaction Guaranteed,Background inf
2、ormation: A retelling of an Isaac Asimovs story called Satisfaction Guaranteed. About a human-like robot, Asimovs first law for robots: A robot must not injure human beings or allow them to be injured. The robot, cause the main character to have some very confusing feelings,Larry Belmont Claire Tony
3、 Gladys Claffern,Characters in the story,Larrys wife, a housewife,the robot,employed in a company that makes robots,a woman that Claire envies,1.Larry was going to be away from home so he hired a robot to accompany his wife Clair. 2.Clair didnt like the idea at the beginning, but she agreed to it at
4、 last. 3.When Tony, the robot, offered to help dressing, Clair was pleased to accept it. But she thought it was surprising for a robot to be so human. 4.Tony could understand Clair when she said she was not clever,F,T,F,T,5.Clairs husband wanted to improve his social position, but she was sorry she
5、could do nothing to help him. 6.Tony was eager to help Claire. He scanned quite a lot of books in the library, but he could find no ways out. 7.Tony asked Claire to go to the town to buy things he needed to improve the house. 8.It was Claire that first decided to invite Gladys and her friends to her
6、 house,T,F,T,F,9.While Tony worked on the improvements of the house, Claire also did her part. 10.Claire was happy to find that Gladys envied her. 11.Claires guests were filled with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed. 12.The company was satisfied with Tonys report because he h
7、ad successfully made a woman fall in love with him,F,F,T,F,1. Why did Tony open the curtains,Careful reading,He wanted Claires guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by women guests,2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed,Careful reading,He had prevented Cl
8、aire from harming herself By making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure,3. Why should Tony be rebuilt,Careful reading,Because the company (designers) cannot have women falling in love with machines,Careful reading,4. How
9、would you feel if you had a robot like Tony in your house,5. Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house. What sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that he was a machine,Careful reading,Looks like a human being. Body and skin soft and warm. Hair and fingernai
10、ls realistic. Voice like a humans,Facial expressions never changed,Able to make suggestions . Able to make a plan and follow it through. Has good communication skills,Behaviour not appropriate. (Tony brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing,Can show sympathy Can give
11、 encouragement Wants to please,Never experienced such a feeling as embarrassment,Language points,It was disturbing and frightening (that) he looked so human. (L2, P3,That he looked so human was disturbing and frightening,Was it disturbing and frightening that,It + be + adj. + that-clause It + be + n
12、.+ that-clause It + be + -ed participle + that-clause It + seems/happens etc. + that-clause,It is absurd that he believes the number 13 has brought him the bad luck,2. It is a great satisfaction that she is well again and can go to her office,3. It is said that Isaac will accompany his parents to vi
13、sit Europe,4. It happens that the prettiest birds are the worst singers,So Claire borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read or, rather scan. (L1, P5,a pile of/piles of: a lot of,pile: a number of things lying on top of one another; an amount of sth that is in a large mess,or rather:
14、away of correcting sth you have said, or making it more exact更确切地说；或者说,He always left books in a large pile. 他总是留下一大堆书 。 He lives in London, or rather he lives in suburb of London. 他住在伦敦，更确切地说是在伦敦郊区,The book I want _. 我要的书在这一堆东西下面。 Ive got _this evening. 今晚我有一大堆工作要做。 You have to be sixteen for cheap
15、 tickets - _. 你得是16岁才能有 便宜的票，更准确地说是16岁以下,is at the bottom of the pile,a pile of/ piles of work to do,or rather under sixteen,As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern,1.谓语是go, come, run,等表示位置转移的动词和be动词， 2. 句中有表示方位的副词 there, here, up, down , in ,out, away 等， 为强调该副词，可将副词置于句首, 构成倒装,注意：若主语是名词，用倒
16、装， 若是代词，则不倒装。 There came the bus! Here he is,It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains It is / was + 强调部分 that / who + 其它 It is not where you come from or what you are, but the ability to do the job_ matters. A. one B. that C. what D. it 2. It was after the invention of printing _to publish large numbers of books and pictures . A. were people able B. that people were able C. when were peo
