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课件网) Welcome or reject future changes Period 5 Unit 2 Looking into the future 选择性必修一 人教版（2019） Autonomous driverless car Do you think there are both advantages and disadvantage of new technology？ Should we fight new technology？ The Amish life Car crash in driverless mode Lead-in Lead-in Predictions of potential natural disasters Do you think there are both advantages and disadvantage of new technology？ Should we fight new technology？ Lead-in Discussion Advantages Disadvantage Robots Mind-reading technology Future cars Groups Scores Group1 Group2 Group3 Group4 Group5 Do you think there are both advantages and disadvantage of new technology？ Should we fight new technology？ Lead-in Lead-in Robots will be doing most of our jobs, from building homes to teaching students. They can clean floors and pump gas. In the future they will be more complex and useful. Unfortunately，with robots taking all the jobs, unemployment will be high. Do you think there are both advantages and disadvantage of new technology？ Should we fight new technology？ Lead-in Lead-in Mind-reading technology will allow us to send thoughts to each other without speaking a word. We will also be able to send thoughts to objects around us.(instead of pressing “start” on the microwave, you could just think “start”．)Meanwhile, chips implanted(植入)in our brains will improve memory and intelligence. Do you think there are both advantages and disadvantage of new technology？ Should we fight new technology？ Lead-in Lead-in Future cars will drive themselves. These electric cars will communicate with other cars on the road to travel safely in close formation at high speeds. So one hundred years from now, accidents will be a thing of the past. Reading vocabulary shocking adj. 令人震惊的 shock v. 使震惊 shocked adj. 感到震惊 2. oppose v. 反对 This morning, I saw the shocking headline: “Passenger Dies When Car Crashes in Driverless Mode”. In the article, various people said that the public should oppose the idea of developing driverless cars. They said that some advances in technology were unnecessary and could even be dangerous. para.1 Reading vocabulary 3. hence adv. 因此，由此 4. cease v. （使）停止；终止 5. apologize （to sb ）for sth 因某事向某人道歉 6. the deceased 亡故的人 the +形容词可表示一类人 7. claim v. 声称 Hence, we should cease accepting technology just because it is new. The newspaper reported that the car company had already apologised for the accident, but the families of the deceased said it was not enough. Nevertheless, the company still claimed that most people would be travelling in driverless cars one day soon. para.1 Reading On the one hand, there are many different groups of people around the world who live happily in the absence of new technology. Probably the most well known are the Amish, a group of Christians living in rural America. They do not own or drive cars, watch TV, or use the ... ...
