3. A robot is a machine designed to do jobs that are usually performed by humans. Robots are programmed and controlled by a computer.

4. It can do many different things.
What can a robot do?

5. play music
dance
sing

6. pour tea
clean the floor
cook dinner

7. play football

8. explore dangerous places

9. play with us

10. serve us

11. What can a robot do? Robots rescue work take care of human housework
play with human
and so on…

12. Toy robots

13. Industrial robots

14. Entertainment
robots

15. household robots

16. characters in stories

18. Some science fiction, literature, films, video games, TV shows and cartoons include robots as characters. .

19. The passage Satisfaction Guaranteed is a short story about a robot
The passage Satisfaction Guaranteed is a short story about a robot. It was originally
written by the science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov.

20. Isaac Asimov, ( )，
艾萨克·阿西莫夫
Isaac Asimov was an American scientist and writer who wrote around 480 books that included mystery stories, and science
fictions.

21. Asimov’s famous works
《Terminator 2》
《The Matrix films 》
I, Robot

22. Satisfaction Guaranteed
A short story
Satisfaction Guaranteed
A man?
A human-like machine??!
A human-like robot!

23. Read the text quickly and complete its main idea.
The text is mainly about a robot, , who not only helped ______ do __________, but also helped her create a new ________.
Tony
Claire
housework
image

24. Characters Who are they? Claire worked for a company that makes robots
Larry Belmont
Claire
Larry’s wife, a housewife
a household robot to be tested out
Tony
Gladys Claffern
a woman that Claire envies

25. facial expression smooth voice skin Characteristics of Tony
Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks.
Characteristics of Tony
● tall and handsome
● his 1. ________________ never changed
● 2. ________ hair
● a deep 3. ________
● soft and warm 4. ________
facial expression
smooth
voice
skin

26. Things Tony did
● gave Claire a new 5. ________ and changed her makeup
● wrote out a(n) 6. ____ of items for Claire to buy
● spoke to the clerk in a(n) 7. ______________ to make him change his 8. ________
haircut
list
jewellery shop
attitude

27. Things Tony did
● 9. _______ Claire to invite her friends to the house
● worked steadily on the improvements of the house
● succeeded in Claire when she fell off a ladder
● opened the curtains, 11______ Claire and expressed his feelings to her
suggested
catching
hugged

28. 1. We can infer that when Claire first saw Tony, she felt alarmed by his cleverness. 2. Claire bought the items from the shop because Tony wanted Claire herself and the house changed.
appearance.

29. 3. Tony opened the curtains to let other women see everything and envy Claire. 4. In the end, the experiment shows Claire and Tony fell in love with each other.
Tony had to be rebuilt.

30. Comprehending 1
Claire’s feelings toward Tony changed as the story developed. Fill in the occasions when Claire had these feelings.

31. Occasion
Claire
disliked him
was alarmed
felt embarrassed
1,Before he arrived
2,When he arrived
3,When he offered
to help her dress

32. Occasion
Claire
admired him
called him a dear
felt his warmth
4,When he offered to help her improve her house and herself
5,When he helped her with the clerk
6,When she fell off a ladder and was caught by Tony

33. Occasion
Claire
felt being envied
cried all night
7,When she heard Gladys
whispering to another
woman that she had never
seen anyone so handsome
as Tony
8,She remembered Tony was just a machine

34. Find how Claire’s emotion developed.
refuse to have Tony at her house
→accept him
→ feel alarmed
→ feel embarrassed
→ trust him
→ proud of him
→ love him
→ sad to remember he was just a machine

35. Comprehending 2
Read the story again and answer the following questions in groups.
1. Why did Tony open the curtains?
He wanted Claire’s guests to see him and Claire together so that she would be envied by the women guests.

36. 2. What did Tony do to prevent Claire from being harmed?
Tony prevented Claire from being harmed by making her feel good about herself. He helped her make her and her home elegant so that she would not feel like a failure.

37. 3. Why did Tony have to be rebuilt?
Tony had to be rebuilt because the company thought that they could not have women falling in love with a robot.

38. 5. Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house
5. Claire spent three weeks with Tony in her house. What sentences in the story show that she kept forgetting and then remembering that he was a machine?
(Para3) She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.
(Para4) Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.
(Para5) How absurd, she thought. He was just a machine.

39. (Para8) He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body. She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day.
(Para11) Then she remembered-Tony was just a machine. She shouted “Leave me alone” and ran to her bed.

40. Can you make up an end for the story?

41. what do you want him/her to do for you?
If you can have your own robot,
what do you want him/her to do for you?

42. 1. Surf the internet to learn about
Isaac Asimov.
2. Surf the internet to learn more
about robots and science fiction.
3. Read the story.

43. Thank you!