1. Living with technology
Module 7 Unit 1
Living with technology

2. Leading-in What electrical and electronic products
do you have at home?
Which do you think is the most useful?
Is there anything that you don’t think is
useful? Why?

3. TV set
remote control

4. refrigerator
washing machine

5. microwave oven
air-condition

6. iron
vacuum cleaner

7. electromagnetic oven
electric rice cooker

8. desktop
laptop

9. digital camera
microphone

10. MP3
MP4

11. telephone
cellphone

12. electronic calculator
tape recorder

13. electric fan
hair dryer

14. are invented to meet people’s needs
Are there any common advantages of these electrical and electronic devices?
are invented to meet people’s needs
improve people’s lives to some degree
make people’s lives more convenient
and easier
be developing very quickly

15. Timeline What can you conclude from the timeline? electric fan
TV(black-and-white)
refrigerator
washing machine
TV(colour)
air-condition
mobile phone(with basic functions)
mobile phone(with MP3 and camera)
What can you conclude from the timeline?

16. development of TV The development of electric devices: colour TV
black-and-white TV
development of TV
LCD screen

17. laptop
desktop
Palm
development
of computer

18. dictionary
electronic dictionary
development
of dictionary

19. development of communication beeper telephone letter/telegram
cellphone

20. Discussion:
1.What can our human beings benefit from the development of electric and electronic appliances?
2.Can we depend on these appliances
completely?

21. Summary With people’s hard work and intelligence,
human beings own lots of useful and handy
electric and electronic devices.These devices
do make us save a lot of time and energy.
Besides, they free us from heavy housework.
But we should not depend completely on them.
We human beings should make reasonable use of them so that we can relax ourselves and find pleasure and happiness in our life.

22. Homework
Preview reading.

23. Thank you!