TEENS 初三20-21学年第3期总第633期初三教案

Isabella

 

 

What do pets think (P6)

 

 

I. Warm up

·1. Do you have pets in your family?

·2. Are you nice to your pets?

·3. How do you know what your pets are thinking?

 

II. Pre-reading

4. Look at these pictures. Can you guess how these pets are feeling?

 

III. While reading

Fast reading

·5. What is Happy Pets?

 

·6. What is the app Happy Pets used for?

A. Playing games with pets.

B. Telling us how pets feel.

C. Training pets to remember faces.

D. Dividing pets into different groups.

 

B

 

Careful reading

 

·7. What do we know about the app Happy Pets?

A. It is part of a student project.                 

B. It works better on cats.

C. It uses facial recognition technology.   

D. It often provides untrustworthy results.

 

C

 

·8. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A. How people use the app.

B. How the app’s AI was trained.

C. What certain facial features mean.

D. What emotions the app can recognize.

B

·11. What will be added to the app in order to recognize animals’ feelings more accurately?

 

·12. The story is written to _____.

A. show how to recognize  animals’ feelings

B. show how to care for animals

C. describe a study on animals

D. describe a new app

 

Guessing

 

·9. What does the word “emotions” mean?

______________

 

·10. What does the phrase “tighten up” mean?

______________

_______________

 

III. Words in use

Complete the sentences using the words provided.

 

develop    recognize    detect     wonder     accurate

1. I ______ how Sam gets along with him.

2. It took less than three years for them to ____ the new material.

3. I _________ her by her red hair.

4. I can ______ signs of improvement in your work.

5. Sometimes the weather forecast is_______, sometimes not.

 

wonder

develop

recognized

detect

accurate

 

IV. Further thinking

·Some apps can make our lives easier and more convenient. Others are just fun to use. What’s your favorite app and why?