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Smart Homes Making Life Easier
选择性必修一 Unit 2 Life in the Future readng and thinking
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Master vocabularies and phrases related to smart homes
Foster interest in technology and its impact on daily life
Learn to identify main ideas and supporting details in a text about smart homes.
Teaching Objectives
Lead in
Step 1
Start with a question: "Have you ever forgotten to lock the door or turn off the TV "
Show a short video or image of a smart home to spark interest.
Introduction to Smart Homes
Discuss common issues like forgetting to lock doors or turn off appliances.
Highlight how these problems can be solved with smart home technology.
Discussion of Common Problems
Lead-in
Can you list some devices on smart homes
Lead-in
Lead-in
smart curtain control
smart windows
smart clothes hanger
smart garage gate
smart gate opener
smart lighting system
Is a smart home useful for us
Let’s learn a passage about it. (P14-15)
Read for structure
Step 2
Skimming the Text
Students skim the text to identify the main ideas.
Read for Structure
Skim the text and answer:
1. What is the main idea of the text
A. Smart home will focus on people’s health issues.
B. Smart home is a new but controversial technology.
C. Smart home will make our life easier.
D. Smart home will make human beings lazy.
2. Who’s the intended audience
Those who are interested in turning their home smarter
3 . Where is the text likely to be taken from
A. science magazine B. A research report
C. A health magazine D. A book review
Identifying Main Ideas
Guide students to find the main idea of each paragraph.
Read for Structure
Match the main ideas with each paragraph.
C. Smart technology will be used widely in the future.
D. Intelligent controls in the home system.
A. Smart homes will prevent serious damage from
accidents.
B. Smart homes will monitor your health and offer
advice.
Para.1
Para.5
Para.4
Para.3
Para.2
E. Smart homes will bring us safe, energy-saving and
comfortable life in the future.
Para 2:
Intelligent controls
Para 3:
Regular health checks
Para 4:
No more disasters
Para 5: The situation of smart home
Smart homes: Benefits
Para1: a brief introduction of smart homes
Topic
Introduction
Benefits/Examples
Conclusion
Read for detail
Step 3
A. To show it is common to forget to turn
off the appliances.
What is the purpose of the first paragraph
C.To warn readers to be careful not to
cause any trouble.
Read for detail
B To imply that smart homes will soon
come into being.
D.To make the theme of the passage
known to readers.
Para 1
Future
Intelligent Controls
Read for detail
Para 2
Nowadays
switches
knobs
remote controls
think about
turning switches
on and off yourself
use integrated sensors
learn your daily routine
& preferences
All controls will respond
to voice commands
Manual control
Automatic/Intelligent control
functions
What can smart homes do with these functions
advantages
will be monitoring your health
Your bed
record how well you sleep
check your body weight
send a warning to your phone
give you suggestions on
Smart toilet
keep constant track of your health
warn you early on
will be able to prevent serious damage from accidents
potentially save your life
detect:
a water leaking pipe
a short in the electrical wiring
provide you with the relevant information
will be able to fix the problem in time
Para 3&4
Regular Health Checks
No More Disasters
In addition, your smart home will be monitoring your health for you every day:Your bed, for example, will record howwell you sleep every night. lt will also be checking your body weight, lf you startto have sleep or weight problems, it will send a warning to your phone. lt will also give you suggestions on a healthier diet and how to sleep better, Smart toilets will be keeping constant track of your health as well. They can warn you early on ifthere is something abnormal or if you have a critical illness, such as cancer, and potentially save your life.
How does the writer develop these paragraphs
Regular Health Checks
No More Disasters
Para 3&4
Smart homes will be able to preventserious damage from accidents. For example, if a water pipe starts leaking, or if there is a short in the electrical wiring, your smart home will detect it and provide you with the relevant information. This way you will be able to fix the problem before your home becomes flooded or catches fire.
Examples
Advantages
A general introduction
What is the writer’s attitude towards smart homes
This smart technology is not a fantasy. Many of these new innovations are already available and being used in some homes. In this sense, the home of tomorrow is already the home of today. Nevertheless, it will take some years before most new homes begin to use this new technology.
Para.5
optimistic,
positive,
hopeful ,
supportive
Read for thinking
Step 4
Critical thinking
the advantages and disadvantages of smart homes
Read for thinking
the advantages and disadvantages of smart homes
Advantages
Save energy
Save time
Monitor health
Prevent disasters
……
malfunction sometimes
hacker break the system
hard to operate the system
......
Disadvantages
Read for thinking
Read for practice
Step 5
A smart home is one that i_________ computers into the structure of the building itself. In this way, many of the things that we now do ourselves will become a_________. For example, the smart home could control the air conditioning and lights so that you would no longer have to turn s_________ on and off, making your home more energy-e_________. The smart home could also m________ itself to make sure that everything is working as it should, and send you w_________ if there is a problem. Such smart homes could even be programmed to d_______ your health problems, and then give you r________ advice as to the food you should eat or if you should see a doctor. So in a sense, smart homes will lead us to living smarter lives.
ntegrates
utomatic
witches
fficient
onitor
arnings
etect
elevant
Complete the summary using the correct forms of the words from the text.
预测未来的最好方式就是去创造它。
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
——Peter Drucker
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