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Teaching goals

1.Be able to learn some important words and phrases.

fiction，desire，satisfaction，alarm，alarmed，sympathy，elegant，pile，scan，fingernail，absurd，haircut，accompany，cushion，awful，affair，declare，envy，test out，ring up，turn around，leave...alone etc.

2.Help students to learn about robots and science fiction.

3.Enable students to realize science fiction reflects scientific thought;fiction of things-to-come based on things-on-hand.

Teaching important points

1.Enable students to grasp what Tony did to help Claire and how her feelings towards Tony changed during Tony's stay at her house.

2.Help students to sum up characteristics of science fiction.

Teaching difficult points

How Claire's feelings towards Tony changed during Tony's stay at her house.

Teaching methods

Discussing，explaining，reading and practicing

Teaching aids

The multimedia computer

Teaching procedures

?Step 1　Warming up

1.Present photos of different kinds of robots.Then ask the students to say something about their favorite robots.

2.Ask students to discuss the following questions in pairs.

(1)What is a robot?

(2)What can a robot do?

Suggested answers：

(1)A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans.Robots are programmed and controlled by a computer.

(2)A robot can do many things.For example，it can play music，sing songs and dance to music;it can pour tea，sweep the floor and cook dinner;it can play football;it can explore dangerous places;it can play with children;it can serve us etc.

?Step 2　Pre-reading

Look at the photos of robots and ask students to discuss the questions in Pre-reading in groups.Students are encouraged to speak out their opinions freely.

1.Where would you find each robot?What does each one do?

2.Can you think of any other type of robot?

3.Do you think it is possible for a robot to think for itself，have feelings，have its own needs and desires，or look and feel like a human being?

?Step 3　Skimming

1.Skim the text to find out t he main characters in the story.

Title Characters in the story Satisfaction Guaranteed

employed in a company that made robots

Larry's wife，a housewife

a robot

a woman that Claire envied

Keys：

Title Characters in the story Satisfaction Guaranteed

Larry Belmont employed in a company that made robots

Claire Larry's wife，a housewife

Tony a robot

Gladys Claffern a woman that Claire envied

2.In groups，find answers to the following questions：

(1)What did Tony look like?

(2)What was Larry Belmont's problem in the end?

Several minutes later check the answers with the whole class.

Suggested answers：

(1)He was tall and handsome although his facial expressions never changed.His hair was smooth and black and his voice was deep.

(2)His wife may have fallen in love with Tony，the robot.

?Step 4　Scanning

1.Ask students to read the text carefully and then find out the true statements.

(1)Claire didn't like the idea at the beginning，but she agreed to it at last.

(2)When Tony，the robot，offered to help dressing，Claire was pleased to accept it.But she thought it was surprising for a robot to be so human.

(3)Tony could understand Claire when she said she was not clever.

(4)Claire was sorry she could do little to help her husband，who wanted to improve his social position.

(5)Tony was eager to help Claire.He scanned quite a lot of books in the library，but he could find no way out.

(6)Tony went to town with Claire to buy things he wanted to improve the house.

(7)While Tony worked on the improvements of the house，Claire also did her part.

(8)Claire's guests were filled with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed.

(9)Claire was very happy to find that Gladys envied her.

(10)The company was very pleased with Tony's report because he had successfully made a woman fall in love with him.

Keys：True statements：(1)，(3)，(4)，(7)and (9)

2.In groups，discuss the questions in Comprehending on Page 12.

(1)Why did Tony open the curtains?

(2)What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?

(3)Why did Tony have to be rebuilt?

(4)How would you feel if you had a robot like Tony in your house?

(5)Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house.Which sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering he was a machine?

Several minutes later check the answers with the whole class.

Suggested answers：

(1)He wanted Claire's guests to see him and Claire together so that she could be envied by the women guests.

(2)Tony prevented Claire from being harmed 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)Because the company (designers)felt that they could not have women falling in love with machines.

(4)Various answers can be accepted.

(5)Sentences：

How absurd，she thought.He was just a machine.

He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body.She screamed，pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day.

Then she remembered—Tony was just a machine.

She shouted “Leave me alone” and ran to her bed.

3.In groups，list Tony's characteristics that were similar to and those that were different from those of a human being.

Characteristics Similar Different

Physical

Mental

Suggested answers：

Characteristics Similar Different

Physical Looks like a human being.Body and skin soft and warm.Hair and fingernails realistic.Voice like a human's. Facial expressions never change.

Quicker reactions(She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room，he managed to catch her in time.)

Mental Able to make suggestions and predictions.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.)