Unit18 Integrating skills

What do you do with your computer?

typewriter video game player

drawing board projector

sending e-mails shopping

listening to music watching movies

What do we use the internet as/for? sending Emails a TV set a telephone a radio a library reading news

What do we use cellphones for? watching videos taking photos

finding destinations watch/calendar/alarm clock

MP3 sending messages

Scanning What is the “information age”? A time of new discoveries and great changes. What problem with new technology exists nowadays? New technology is used in old ways.

Reading 1. Why are scientific metaphors like “memory” and “cut and paste” useful? They make it easier for us to understand and use a new tool. They may make it more difficult for us to use the new invention in the bet way.

2.When will we know the real function of computers? The real function will only be known once we discover new ways of thinking about the technology.

Language points 1. It is certainly true that… We are said to be living in the “Information Age” a time of new discoveries and great changes … (同位语)

It is certainly true that…it是形式主语。相似的还有： It is possible that… It is known that… It is likely that… It is strange/natural/true/wonderful that…

2. Anywhere we go, we can hear the ringing… anywhere : no matter where 无论何处,任何地方 We’ll go anywhere you like. 你爱往哪儿去,我们就往哪儿去 相关词汇: anyway /anyhow 不管怎样

be said to be doing/ be said to have done sth. 3 . sb. be said to do sth. / be said to be doing/ be said to have done sth. e.g. It is said that he is writing a novel, but I don’t know whether he has finished it or not. He is said to be writing a novel, but I don’t know whether he has finished it or not.

相似的还有： It is reported / decided / announced / proved / supposed / guessed / thought that… 有时还可以如下方式表达: As is reported/announced/believed/known,… e.g._______________(据宣布), he has been elected president of the hospital. As is announced

that: so “那么”，在口语中程度副词可以由so, very来代替。 4.. …Has our life changed that much?... that: so “那么”，在口语中程度副词可以由so, very来代替。 e.g. I can’t walk that far. Why do you keep me waiting that long? There are about 2,000 people present at the meeting in the hall. I didn’t expect it to be that full. This is _____________________(那么贵的一辆车) that/so expensive a car

e.g. His new bike is similar to mine. n. similarity 5 …A computer’s “memory" is similar to human memory, but it is also very different. be similar to “与……相似” e.g. His new bike is similar to mine. n. similarity

6. Using familiar words makes it easier for us to understand and use a new tool. familiar adj 熟悉的,常见的 听惯的,亲近的,随便的 The voice on the phone sounded familiar. Sth be familiar to sb 某人熟悉… The signs of drug addiction are familiar to most doctors. This kind of situation was all too familiar (=very familiar) to John. Sb be familiar with something I'm not really familiar with her poetry, sorry to say.

I will never allow such behavior. 7. ...After all, what makes a new invention such a wonderful thing is that it allows us to do something we could not do before. allow +名/doing I will never allow such behavior. 我决不允许这样的行为。

Smoking is not allowed here. allow + sb. + to do 此地禁止吸烟。 allow + sb. + to do Are we allowed to play football here? 我们可以在这里踢足球吗? allow for : include sb or sth in one’s calculation 在计算、估计时考虑到某人/某事

8. Now that we are developing new technology at such a high pace, the true challenge is to… now that: because of the fact (that)… 由于……, 既然…… 1 Now that we know each other a little better, we get along fine. 2 at a high pace : rapidly 快速地 The electronics industry is developing at a high pace. 电子工业在高速发展

9. Now that we are developing new technology at such a high pace, the … now that 既然：since…(since that…) e.g. Now that you have grown up, you must stop this childish behavior.

Writing

Pre –writing The history of computer an electric calculating machine was built in 1946 as large as a house the starting of modern computer Eniac (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer)

an electric calculating machine

laptop computer desktop computer palmtop computer modern computer

Choose one of the questions below and write a brief essay. 1. What will computer look like in the future? How will we use them? 2. Imagine that you had to describe a computer to someone who lived in nineteenth century .How would you explain it? What would you compare it to?

Writing tips Before we start writing, we should list ideas and information and think about the organization of our articles. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Computer is part of our life The development of computer The way we use computers will change

A sample Have you ever seen a computer? Let me tell you something about it. A computer is an electric calculating machine that can store and recall information and make calculations at a very high speed. It is a wonderful machine and can do most of the things

people can do, but it work millions of times faster. The first large, modern computer was built in 1946, and people needed a large house to put it in. In the last few years there have been great changes in computers. Today they can be used in many fields.

People even use it to pay bills or order what they want People even use it to pay bills or order what they want. It is said that in the future computers would arrange everything for people, and do almost all kinds of work. That would be a real computer society.

Reading on P133 Listen to the tape, then read the passage carefully and fill in the chart. Ex.1 Complete the chart below with information from the text.

Invention Possible uses Invisible paint 1. _________________ 2. ______________________ __________________ _________ _____________________ ___________ Interesting clothes. Help doctors see through the skin/hide things. Help doctors operate on people in a safer and less painful way. Tiny robot

Ex. 2 The text mentions several other ideas for new inventions Ex.2 The text mentions several other ideas for new inventions. Work in pairs and try to imagine ways in which the new inventions could be used.

Invention Possible uses Device that lets us send information to the brain Device that makes energy from empty space Learn English. Remember phone numbers. Cheap and clean energy. Use on spaceships.

Destination Description Climate Impression Feeling Homework Writing a Travel Diary. Outline Destination Description Climate Impression Feeling Finish the writing. Review the new words and expressions.

Thank you

Revision Attributive Clause Join each pair of sentences using the Attributive Clause, with who, whom, whose, that, which, where and when.

2. The person had to go home for a month. I was working with her. 1. I enjoy visiting places. The hotels are cheap there and people are friendly. I enjoy visiting places where the hotels are cheap and people are friendly. 2. The person had to go home for a month. I was working with her. The person with whom I was working had to go home for a month.

3. That is a subject. I know very little about it. That is the subject about which I know very little. 4. Some people are usually interesting to talk to. Their lives are adventurous. Some people whose lives are adventurous are usually interesting of talk to.

Do you remember the national park where we were attacked by wild pigs? 5. Do you remember the national park? We were attacked by wild pigs there. Do you remember the national park where we were attacked by wild pigs? 6. My cousin studies the behaviour of animals. She likes singing and dancing. My cousin who likes singing and dancing studies the behaviour of animals.

7. A Brief History of Time was written by Stephen Hawking 7. A Brief History of Time was written by Stephen Hawking. The book is a best-seller. A Brief History of Time which is a best-seller was written by Stephen Hawking.

8. The professor was Albert Einstein. She did research for him. The professor for whom she did research was Albert Einstein. 9. The kind of insect interests me most. It is the butterfly. The kind of insect which is the butterfly interests me most.

10. My mother still remembers the winter of 1976 10. My mother still remembers the winter of 1976. A terrible earthquake happened then. My mother still remembers the winter of 1976 when a terrible earthquake happened.