2019学年度北师大版选修七Unit 19 Lesson 1 - Pre-reading学案设计

Ⅰ.阅读理解

A "talking kitchen" teaches students how to cook French and speak French. Researchers at New Castle University in the United Kingdom have developed the French Digital Kitchen. Professors Pau l Seed house and Patrick Olivier led the project. Professor Seed house told us that it works like a satellite navigation system (卫星导航系统) in a car.

The kitchen equipment and tools use motion sensor (动作传感器) technology. The sensors help a computer guide the students through instructions in French.

The system can tell whether you've done what you were asked to do or not. For example, the system tells you to take some butter and cut it with a knife. There's a sensor on the package containing the butter so it can tell where the butter's being moved. The sensor in the knife not only knows that the knife is moving, but it also knows what motion the knife is making. So it can know whether the knife is cutting or what. And it doesn't go on to the next step of the program unless you've done what it senses you've done.

Students can ask the computer to repeat the instructions or translate them into English. There are vocabulary lessons before and after the cooking.

Professor Seedhouse says the French Digital Kitchen turns the process of learning language into a real­life experience. "Here you're taking it out of the classroom and you're actually using the language to produce something which you can eat at the end of it. It's very enjoyable."

The system could be available for sale by the end of 2018.Adding the technology to a new kitchen could add about ten to twenty percent to the building costs. The researchers have also been given money to develop programs in six other languages, including English, Italian and Spanish.

语篇解读：本文是说明文。文章主要介绍了一种有助于外语语言学习的智能厨房系统。

1．Which of the following correctly shows how the system works?

A．the sensor receives information - the computer sends information - the computer gives instructions

B．the sensor sends information - the computer receives information - the computer gives instructions

C．the computer sends information - the sensor receives information - the sensor gives instructions

D．the computer explains information - the computer sends information - the sensor gives instructions

解析：选B　细节理解题。由第三段描述的工作程序可知B正确。

2．What does the underlined word "it" (in Paragraph 5) refer to?

A．French food.

B．French language. C．The process of cooking and learning.

D．The process of listening and translating.