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课件网) Unit 4 A glimpse of the future PART.01 Learning Objectives Grasp the key words and the phrases and get the genre and structure of the passage. 01 Express opinions about external and inner beauty and form a right attitude to beauty. 03 Learn different opinions, analyze the structure of the text and acquire different reading skills and methods. 02 Learning Objectives Through reading, students can have a better understanding of the text, set a scene according to the passage and their learning, and have a deep understanding about real beauty. Students can strengthen critical and creative thinking as well as ability of analyzing, and learn to express opinions about external and inner beauty and form a right attitude to beauty. 01 02 Teaching Focuses and Anticipated Difficulties PART.02 Lead-in Did the essay you wrote about the future as a child become a reality Do you know anything about AI products What related products or inventions can you think of Watch the video and answer questions. 1 What predictions about the future were made Were they correct Watch the video and answer questions. Correct predictions: flying machines, organ transplantation, “perpetual light”, the atom bomb, space stations would broadcast television signals all over the globe Incorrect predictions: a world market for maybe five computers, nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners 01 2 What is your understanding of “the future has unlimited possibilities” 1 Have you watched any of these films What stories do they tell about the future of our world 2 Do you think the events in these films could come true What do you think the world will be like in the future 02 Look at the pictures and answer the questions. PART.03 Reading Milestones in Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1950 Mathematician and logician, Alan Turing devised the Turing Test, a test on the ability of machines to show human-like intelligence. 1955 Computer scientist, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”. 1972 Shakey, the first mobile robot able to make decisions according to reason, was completed. 2001 The Electrolux Trilobite, the first robotic vacuum cleaner designed for home use, went on sale. 2015 AlphaGo became the first computer program to beat a human professional Go player. 2017 AlphaGo Zero beat the previous version of AlphaGo by 100 games to nil. Read the facts about AI and answer the questions. 01 01 1 What can you learn from the timeline Read the facts about AI and answer the questions. From the timeline, we can learn that AI technology has developed greatly, and can now outperform humans in some aspects. 2 Are you concerned about developments in AI Why or why not 3 How do you think AI will develop in the future 02 Read the passage to see if it changes your opinion on the future of AI. If so, in what ways Artificial Intelligence: A REAL THREAT Read the passage and answer the question. 1. What’s the passage mainly about A．Three vie ... ...
