1. Reading

2. monitor
screen
host computer
speaker
keyboard
mouse

3. What do they have in common?
A calculator
An abacus
A desktop
A notebook computer

4. digital camera
a laptop
palmtop

5. Reading:
Who am I?

6. What’s next?

7. Useful phrases calculating machine 计算器 Analytical machine 分析机
card with holes
technological revolution
universal machine
artificial intelligence
go by
by internet
human race
计算器
分析机
穿孔卡
技术革命
万能机,通用机器
人工智能
走过，过去
通过网络 人类

8. Pre-reading questions
What have computers changed our
life?
2. What changes will they bring to us in the future?

9. Task 1 Skimming 1. Who is the speaker in this story? A computer.
2. Write down three sentences from the story to support your idea.
1) I was built as an Analytical
machine by Charles Babbage.

10. 2) My real father, Alan Turing, …
3) I was always lonely standing there by myself, until in early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network.

11. Task 2 Fast reading 1. Where were you in 1642? In France.
2. What happened to you after nearly
two hundred years?
I was built as an Analytical Machine
by Babbage.
3. What were you called in 1936?
A universal machine.
4. What happened to you in the 1970s?
I have been used in offices and homes.

12. Task 3 Careful reading
1642
1822
The analytical machine was made by Charles Babbage.
1936
The computer began as a calculating machine．
The computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.

13. 1940s
The first family of computers was connected to each other.
1970s
now
Computers had grown as large as a room.
1960s
Computers were used in offices and homes.
Computers connect people all over the world together.

14. Development
Early days
Name
Function
Poor
Strong
A _________ machine
Simplify difficult sums
An ________ machine
Think logically and produce an answer quickly
Solve difficult ____________
__________
calculating
analytical
universal
mathematical
problems

15. Development
Network times
_________ stored in
Tubes
Large
Small
____________
Small chips
______
__________
Narrow
Wide
Finance
________
Robots
Mobile phones
___________
Space rockets
Memory
Transistors
Applications
Communication
Trade
Medical operations

16. Task 4 Fill in the blanks. 1 completely 2 complete change 3
to make things easier 4
to find the answer using numbers 5
can be moved easily from place to place 6
to work out the answer to a problem
totally
revolution
simplify
calculate
mobile
solve

17. 7
to travel around an area to find out about it 8
completely 9
anyway 10
activity of managing money
explore
totally
anyhow
finance

18. The history of computers

19. the second generation
( )
The first generation
( )
the fourth generation
( )
the third generation
( )

20. Task 5 QUESTION-ANSWER
COMPETITION

21. What is PC? Speak the name on the whole.
It means: personal computer.
2. What is IT?
Information Technology.
3. What is CD-ROM?
Compact disc read-only memory.
4. What is PDA?
Personal digital assistant.

22. 5. What is W.W.W?
World wide web.
6. 科学技术。
Science and technology.
7. 人工智能。
Artificial intelligence.
8.笔记本电脑。
Notebook computer.

23. P1 L2 I followed instructions from cards with holes.
Star sentences
P1 L2 I followed instructions from cards with holes.
P1 5 Earlier I was not very big, but then I became huge.
P1 L6 However, people thought I was simple-minded until they discovered I had “artificial intelligence.”
我执行穿孔卡的指令
早些时候我并不是很大，但是后来我变得非常大
可是，人们认为我头脑简单， 直到发现我有人工智能时，
他们才不那么想了。

24. P1 L8 As the years have gone by, I have been made smaller and smaller.
P2 L1 There were times when my size was totally changed.
P2 L3 But I was always so lonely standing there by myself,until in the early 1960s,they gave me a family connected by a network.
随着岁月的流逝， 我被做得越来越小了
有段时期我的体积完全变了
但是我总是孤孤单单地站在那里，直到60年代初， 人们才
给了我一个用网络连接的家庭。

25. Discussion
Advantages and disadvantages of the computers.

26. communicate with friends
advantages
we can
communicate with friends
listen to the music
see films & watch news
play games
do shopping
save a lot of time
do a lot of useful things
Disadvantages
Some people especially the teenagers abandon (沉迷于) themselves to the computer games and chatting on the Internet. As a result, they have little time to study .
Some people use the computer wrongly

27. Homework
Recite Para one

28. other useful words and expressions about computer
Network 网络
Website　站点
Program　程序
Virus　病毒
Hacker 黑客
Download 下载
Software 软件
Hardware 硬件
Up load 上传
Home page 主页
Password　密码
Desk top 桌面
User name 用户名
Click 点击