Unit 2 Smart cars

Text A Smart Cars Michio Kaku

Before Reading

Global Reading

Detailed Reading

After Reading

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1. What do you think is the most profitable and powerful industry of the 20th century, computer, automobile, petroleum or airplane?

Warm –up Questions

2. What do think will be the most profitable and powerful industry in the 21st century, communication, astronautics, biology or construction?

3. What is the greatest invention in the world so far?

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Before Reading

Global Reading

Detailed Reading

After Reading

Part Division of the Text

Parts Para Main Ideas

1 1-14

2 15-55

3 56-80

New technology will have a dramatic on cars and highway in the 21st century.

With the aid of advanced technology, smart cars will be so designed that they can help eliminate traffic accidents, determined their own precise locations and warn of traffic jam..GPS and “Telematics” will make it possible to build smart highways, which will benefit us in more than one way.

Scan the text A and decided whether the following statements are true or false.

1. There are so many people killed in the car accidents that car accidents reports can be found in newspaper nearly everyday.

2. A smart car can alert the driver if he becomes drowsy

3. The computer in the car will totally eliminate the cases of getting lost and getting stuck in traffic

4. The computer in the car sends out a radio signal that can be detected by a satellite.

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Before Reading

Global Reading

Detailed Reading

After Reading

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Detailed Reading

1.Explain some difficult sentences and the language points after global reading. 2.Teach some useful words and phrases, make sentences with them. 3. Do some translation practices.

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Before Reading

Global Reading

Detailed Reading

After Reading

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Useful Expressions

1.     smart cars 智能汽车         drive on one’s own 独立驾驶3.       turn sth. into a reality 把…变成现实 the automobile industry 汽车工业2.       manufacturing industry 制造业      traffic accidents 交通事故 in the air 空气中，在空中，悬而未决的 start up 发动，启动

Useful Expressions get lost in 迷路，迷失 get/be stuck in 被阻塞，停留 The Global Positioning System 全球定位系统at a precise frequency 精确频率的 send out 发射，发出 a radio signal 无线电信号 the speed of light 光速convert sth. into 把…转变成…be poised to (do) 做好准备随时做…

Exercises

Writing strategies

Homework

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