The development of computers
Watching, then answering what subjects are mentioned in this article.
Agriculture Space travel Health Research Personal lives Education Office work … Transport Industry
The main idea of each paragraph: Para. 1: Para.2: Para. 3: Para. 4: Para.5: Para.6: The use of computer in agriculture. The use of computer in personal lives and what computer can do to help people. People con work at home with the help of computer. The use of computer in transport. How computer will help reduce the cost of space travel. The important part the computer plays in the fields of education, health and research.
in agriculture on many farms in glasshouses what can farmers work out? be used to control the the growing Conditions of vegetables and plants control the watering of the plants as well as the light and temperature be used to work out whether they will save or lose money by increasing the temperature by 1 ℃ Computers used in agriculture
personal lives of the people change money or pay the electricity bill and so on. turn on/off the light turn off /on the heating and hot water before you return home without computer with computer one has to go to the bank one has to do it all by himself/herself this can not be done one can make a telephone call and then everything is done it can be done auto- matically by computer one can telephone home half an hour before returning by speaking into the computer,and all this can be done
small office & home office
more convenient than spending a lot of time travelling to work use videophone for conference send pictures by fax do drawings on computers go on Internet and send s
in transport in space travel railways in Japan be used to work out the best distance Between trains. Trains will be operated by computer and many of them will have no drivers. it will be much easier and the costs will Reduce a great deal. computers used in transport computers used in space travel
education health (medical care) research
If you want to know something about certain subject type the name of the of the subject and then you will get a list of magazine and book titles. If you want more information you search the titles and you can choose certain texts and read them on you computer. If you want a copy of the article or page the computer will print it out for you. computer programs for storing whole texts
According to the form,retell the text
writing What will life in the future be like? It will be It may be... It is likely to be… What do you think is likely to happen… It is possible that… It is not likely that… I don’t think...
Homework: Finish off the workbook exercises; Do word study on page 27.