摘要：Step Ⅰ Part 1 This activity allows students to activate their background knowledge before attempting the reading. First read the title with the children and ask them what they think the article is about. Ask several to tell the class what they think the article is about based on the title. If they think of it is about robots, tell them they have done well. Second say to the class, Please look at the picture on this page. What can you see in it? How many robots can you see? What are they busy doing? Ask one or two students to describe the picture to the class. Note to correct the sentences that they use. They may say like this, We can see four robots in the picture. They are all busy working. The first one is carrying heavy boxes. The second one is taking care of an elder person. The third one is working on a machine. The fourth one looks like a snake. It is a snake robot and it is looking for people trapped under a building. Read the instructions to students now. Go over the three questions with students and choose three students to give answers to make model ones to the others. Then ask them to work in pairs, discuss the three questions. The answer will vary. Tell them to discuss the questions without reading the article. As the children work, walk around, listen to them and offer any words and sentences they may need. When all the pairs finish discussing, ask some pairs to ask and answer the questions. The others in the class listen to them. Sample answers1. A robot is a machine that acts like a human. It looks like a human being. It is made to do very careful or dangerous work instead of human beings. A robot is controlled by different electric device system which can perform the commands.

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