1. Vocabulary
Lecture Five

3. Virtual World cyber space Internet world virtual reality net world
real world
real life
reality

4. Word Web: A Virtual Life
on the Net
Internet mailing lists
connection
on line
system crash
link
data
computer assisted
telecommuter
cyber-interaction

5. How would you manage your life if you couldn't go out of your room and the only way you could get in touch with the outside is the internet?

6. Unit 4 Text A How is your life influenced by Internet?
How are the author’s life and work influenced by Internet?

7. Life boyfriend’s accent: secretary’s clipped tone: Time: Weekends:
impossible to interpret
more rejecting
fluid
ordinary days

8. Work TV producer—Telecommuter submit and edit articles via email
communicate with colleagues on line

9. Unit 4 Text A feeling daily life personality behavior
How is your life influenced by Internet?
How are the author’s life and work influenced by Internet?
How will you feel if you stay on line for a long time?
What is the author’s life like after her staying on line for a long time?
feeling
daily life
personality
behavior

10. Generalization: Daily routine is important
feeling:
life:
personality:
real life behavior:
virtual life behavior:
aversion to the outside world
lack of discipline
shyer, more cautious, more anxious
sucked in by soap operas
attacking everyone in sight

11. The dress was too big, so I took it in.
1. take in
The dress was too big, so I took it in.
I didn’t take in what you were studying.
She took in every details Mary’s clothes.
Do you mean we should take in the fresh?
This is the total cost of the trip, taking in everything.
Don’t be taken in by her promise.
make narrower
understand
observe
receive
including
deceive

12. 2. live
live broadcasting
a living language
lively statue
keep your hope alive

13. 3. jar
jar sth.
The fall jarred every bone in my body.
jar on sb./ sth.
Her laugh jars on me.

14. 4. suck
suck sb. in/into sth.
Some teenagers don’t want to get involved in the gangs, but they soon find themselves sucked in.
I don’t want to get sucked into debate about school reform.

15. 5. in sight
No vehicle is in sight.
Peace was in sight at last after four years of war.
lose sight of
out of sight

16. 6. project
hope project
project one’s jaw in defiance
project an arrow
project the slide onto a screen
a posture that projects defeat

17. 7. abuse
abuse power/ the abuse of power
abuse children/ children abuse
abuse sb./ filthy abuses

18. Unit 4 Text A How is your life influenced by Internet?
How are the author’s life and work influenced by Internet?
How will you feel if you stay on line for a long time?
How does the author feel after staying on line for a long time?
How do you think people will be if they are indulged in Internet all the day?
What does the author do to return to real life and what is the result?

19. The author tries to…
call people
get to the gym
arrange interviews & doctor’s appointments
But then she feels…
being face to face is too much
everything is intolerable and unbearable

20. restore
restore sth.
To restore balance to my life
restore sb. to sth.
Doing exercises everyday restore the old man to good health.

21. Text Structure Contents Paragraphs
1.Description of the author’s virtual life
2. How she feels about it after staying on the Net for a while
3. What she does in trying to return to the real world
4. How she feels about the real day-to-day world
2-3
1,4-10,13 11 12

22. Compare and Think
Para.1: After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock.
Para.13: I click on the modem, the once-annoying sound of the connection now as pleasant as my favorite tune. I enter my password. The real world disappears.

23. Debate Group1: Internet will isolate us from one another. Group2:
Internet will make us closer.