综合英语6Unit2Bards-of-the-Internet省公开课金奖全国赛课一等奖微课获奖PP.pptx

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Unit 2 Bards of the Internet,1/144,What does this picture imply?,2/144,We are entering an era of information explosion which is boosted by advanced science and technology.We have become accustomed to communicate with each other through Twitter,Weibo,Facebook,etc.The Internet has changed our life one way or another.Please share an example on how the Internet has changed your life or some habits.,Open to discussion.,3/144,The Internet has provided us with a more speedy and convenient means of communication,which is called for by the quickened pace of life today.Online communication has bred a style of writing with numerous distinctive features of its own.Can you think of some examples to illustrate the differences between online writing and traditional writing?,Open to discussion.,4/144,唐家三少张威,5/144,In this essay the author describes the current fashion for netwriting,explores the causes of the poor quality of writing found on the Internet,and explains its merits and differences from published writing as well as justifications for its survival and prevalence.,6/144,CompuServe(Paragraph 2),Founded in 1969 as a computer time sharing service,CompuServe drove the initial emergence of the online service industry.In 1979,CompuServe became the first service to offer electronic mail capabilities and technical support to personal computer users.CompuServe broke new ground again in 1980 as the first online service to offer real-time chat.Since its acquisition by AOL(America On-line)in 1998,CompuServe has been a wholly owned subsidiary of America On-line,Inc.,7/144,Prodigy(Paragraph 2),an official web site,providing Internet access and related value-added services,8/144,America Online(Paragraph 2),the worlds largest online information service which is often abbreviated as AOL.It is an American corporation headquartered in Virginia,owner and operator of online and interactive computer games.,9/144,McLuhan(Paragraph 2),Herbert Marshall McLuhan(19111980),Canadian writer and philosopher.He argued that it is the characteristics of a particular medium rather than the information it disseminates(传输）that influence and control society.,10/144,Tor Books(Paragraph 3),Tor Books,an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates,LLC,is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and soft-cover books,founded in 1980 and committed(although not limited)to science fiction and fantasy literature.The company is now part of the Holtzbrink group,now known as Macmillan Publishers.,11/144,Mark Twain(Paragraph 3),US novelist and humorist;pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens(18351910).After gaining a reputation as a humorist with his early works,he wrote his best-known novels,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,(1876)and,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,(1885);both give a vivid evocation of Mississippi frontier life.,12/144,Tom Paine(Paragraph 3),Thomas Paine(17371809),18th century English political writer.His pamphlet,Common Sense,(1776)called for American independence and,The Rights of Man,(1791)defended the French Revolution.,13/144,Revolutionary War(Paragraph 3),indicating the war of American Revolution from 1775 to 1783 in which the American colonists won independence from British rule.The Revolutionary pamphleteers were not professional writers but common citizens engaged in the debate of ideas.,14/144,Elizabethan era(Paragraph 3),Elizabeth(15331603),queen of England and Ireland(15581603);daughter of Henry VIII.She re-established Protestantism as the state religion.The phrase indicates the period of time reigned by Elizabeth.,15/144,Gutenberg(Paragraph 3),Johannes Gutenberg(c.14001468),15th century German printer.He was the first in the West to print by using movable type and to use a press.,16/144,Canterbury Tales(Paragraph 7),A collection of stories in poetic form written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by William Caxton in 1478.Today,a visit to,The Canterbury Tales,one of Kents most popular attractions,with its stunning reconstruction of 14th century England,is just like stepping into the Middle Ages.Here it refers to a very old-fashioned dressing style.,17/144,WELL(Paragraph 9),a pioneering online community known for engaging conversations and intelligent debates,18/144,Sausalito(Paragraph 9),a small city in northwestern California,across the Golden Gate from San Francisco,a noted artists colony with a population of about 8,000,19/144,New York Times,(Paragraph 9),one of the most important papers in the history of American newspapers,which was founded on September 18,1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones.Raymond was also a founding director of the Associated Press in 1856.,20/144,Wall Street Journal,(Paragraph 9),Founded in 1889,the,Wall Street Journal,the flagship publication of Dow Jones&Company,is the worlds leading business newspaper.,21/144,Communications Daily,(Paragraph 10),Americas preeminent daily telecom news source published by Warren Communications News,the publisher of must-read daily news publications covering the telecom and television industry,22/144,Des Moines(Paragraph 12),the capital of Iowa,in the south central part of the state,with a population of about 200,000,23/144,Brook Farm(Paragraph 13),an experimental commune in West Roxbury,Massachusetts,set up by a group of US writers in the 1840s,24/144,the Globe Theatre(Paragraph 13),a theatre in Southwark,London,erected in 1599,where many of Shakespeares plays were first publicly performed,25/144,Phillip Elmer-DeWitt is a senior editor of,Time,magazine.Since 1982,Elmer-DeWitt has written about science and technology for the magazine.As a staff writer for that publication,he has launched two new sections in the magazine:in 1982,“Computers”and in 1987,“Technology.”In 1993,Elmer-DeWitt also spearheaded,Time Online,the interactive edition of the magazine.,26/144,Elmer-DeWitt has produced over four hundred news and feature stories on subjects ranging from in vitro fertilization to computer sex.His Time magazine cover stories include“Computer Viruses”(1988),“Supercomputers”(1988),“Curing Infertility”(1991),“Cyberpunk”(1993),“Info Highway”(1993),“Video Games”(1993),“Human Cloning”(1994),“The Internet”(1994),and“Sex in America”(1994).,27/144,Structure,Part I,Part II,Part III,Part IV,Part V,28/144,Key words:,Net-writingPoor quality,cause,gem,merit,29/144,Part 1,(Para.1-2),introductory lead,The first two paragraphs are an introductory lead-in that presents an analytical comparison between what happened to writing when the telephone was invented and what is happening on computer networks now.,30/144,1.,One of the unintended side effects of the invention of the telephone was that writing went out of style,.,Oh,sure,there were still full-time scribblers journalists,academics,professional wordsmiths.And the great centers of commerce still found it useful to keep on hand people who could draft a memo,a brief,a press release or a contract.But given a choice between picking up a pen or a phone,most folks took the easy route,and gave their fingers and sometimes their mind a rest,.,31/144,unintended,adj.,not deliberate or planned,an,unintended,slight,The group argues that many of the proposed reforms will have,unintended,consequences.,e.g.,32/144,“,One of the unintended side effects of the invention of the telephone was that writing went out of style.”,When telephone was invented,no one realized at that time that it would outdate writing.,Paraphrase,33/144,“.and gave their fingers and sometimes their mind a rest.”,Explanation,.and preferred to use the telephone rather than the pen(in a humorous way).,34/144,Paragraph 1:Question,Why does the author relate what happened to the telephone with what is happening to the computer?,By doing so,the author seems to suggest that writing,which went out of style with the invention of the telephone,is experiencing an unexpected comeback with online letter writing.,35/144,第1段 汉字译文,电话创造，产生了一个始料不及后果，书写过时了。诚然，全职写字工依然存在，包含记者、学者以及职业写手。大型商业中心依然很有必要保留一些能草拟备忘录、会议纪要、新闻稿或者协议人。不过在举笔和拿起话筒之间选择话，大多数人都会走便道，让手指有时还有大脑休息片刻。,36/144,2.,Which makes whats happening on the computer networks all the more startling,.,Every night,when they should be watching television,millions of computer users sit down at their keyboards;dial into CompuServe,Prodigy,America Online or the Internet;and start typing E-mail,bulletin-board postings,chat messages,rants,diatribes,even short stories and poems.,Just when the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare,the online world is experiencing the greatest boom in letter writing since the 18th century,.,37/144,“Which makes whats happening on the computer networks all the more startling.”,Explanation,Here“which”is a relative pronoun referring to the situation mentioned in the preceding paragraph.The sentence would be grammatically acceptable if it were restructured as“All this makes whats happening on the computer networks all the more startling.”,38/144,render,vt.,to make someone or something be or become something;to express,show,or perform something in a particular way,His rudeness,rendered,me speechless.,The singers,rendered,the song with enthusiasm.,e.g.,39/144,obsolescent,adj.,(cf.obsolete),becoming replaced by something newer and more effective,The amateur movie gauges of 8 mm,Super 8 and 9.5 mm are,obsolescent,.,Much of our existing military hardware is,obsolescent,.,e.g.,Note,Things that are,obsolete,are out of date or no longer in general use.Things that are,obsolescent,are fading from general use and soon to become obsolete.,40/144,boom,n.,an increase in the activity of a particular industry or part of a countrys economy,This year has seen a,boom,in book sales.,The insurance business suffered from a vicious cycle of,boom,and bust（繁荣与萧条）.,e.g.,41/144,“,Just when the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare,the online world is experiencing the greatest boom in letter writing since the 18th century.”,Contrary to what is expected,at a time when the media of McLuhan(e.g.television)were supposed to make the medium of Shakespeare(i.e.letter writing)out of date,letter writing on the Internet is enjoying the greatest development since the 18th century.,Paraphrase,42/144,Paragraph 2:Question,What is implied when the author says“.the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare.”?,The phrase“the media of McLuhan”refers to the new media that became popular in the 20th century such as radio,television and movies,while“the medium of Shakespeare”refers to the traditional way of“letter writing”in the main clause of this sentence.The sentence implies that,instead of being rendered obsolete,letter writing is experiencing the fastest development since the 18th century,though it is in the“online”form.,43/144,第2段 汉字译文,与之相比，当前计算机网络上发生现象就更为惊人了。每个夜晚，当人们本应该看电视时候，成千上万计算机用户坐在键盘前，点击进入“电脑服务”、“奇才”、“美国在线”或互联网，并开始打字 发电子邮件、公布信息、聊天、夸夸其谈、谩骂，甚至创作短篇小说和诗歌。当麦克卢汉所说媒介正在淘汰莎士比亚时代媒介时，网络世界正经历着18世纪以来信件书写最为迅猛发展。,44/144,Part 2,(Para.3-4),feature and quality of net writing,In this paragraph a number of peoples remarks are quoted.These quotations serve as evidence of the fact that deviations from the traditional medium of letter writing are not rare in history.The implication is that we should not be surprised by the boom in net-writing.,45/144,3.“It is my overwhelming belief that E-mail and computer conferencing is teaching an entire generation about the flexibility and utility of prose,”writes Jon Carroll,a columnist at the,San Francisco Chronicle,.Patrick Nielsen Hayden,an editor at Tor Books,compares electronic bulletin boards with the“scribblers compacts”of the late 18th and early 19th centuries,in which members passed letters from hand to hand,adding a little more at each turn.,David Sewell,an associate editor at the University of Arizona,likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s,“when people were reinventing journalism by grafting it onto the tall-tale folk tradition.”,46/144,Others,hark back to,Tom Paine and the Revolutionary War,pamphleteers,or even to the Elizabethan era,when,thanks to Gutenberg,a generation of English writers became intoxicated with language.,47/144,liken,vt.,liken someone/something to something,to say that someone or something is similar to someone or something else,e.g.,She,likened,the experience to sinking into a warm bath.,Our small company can be,likened,to a big,happy family.,48/144,reinvent,vt.,to change something that already exists and give it a different form or purpose,e.g.,The story of Romeo and Juliet was,reinventedas a Los Angeles gangster movie（黑帮片）.,Hes one of those sportsmen who,reinvent,themselves as TV presenters.,reinvent as/reinvent yourself:to change the way that you behave or the things that you do so that people think of you as a different kind of person,她一直努力把自己重新塑造成一位演员。(reinvent as),She kept trying to reinvent herself as an actress.,49/144,graft,vt.:,to add something and make it become a part of another thing,e.g.,A piece of skin was removed from her leg and,grafted,onto her face.,The management tried unsuccessfully to,graft,new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.,50/144,the tall-tale folk tradition,n.,the tradition in which people tell a story or a tale in a fanciful and exaggerated manner.,A,tall tale/story,is a tale or a story that is hard to believe,because it is so exaggerated or unlikely.Here the author refers to a unique kind of journalism in which people report news in much the same way as people tell tall tales.,51/144,David Sewell.likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s,“when people were reinventing journalism by grafting it onto the tall-tale folk tradition.”,David Sewell compares netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s,“when journalists were fond of writing news reports in the traditional tall-tale style.”,Paraphrase,52/144,hark back to something,to remember or talk about something that happened in the past e.g.,They always,hark back to,what they call the good old days.,导演新片回归到早期电影格调。(hark back to),The directors latest film harks back to the early years of cinema.,53/144,pamphleteers,n.,Though most pamphleteers were not professional writers,they were passionate advocators of North American independence.,54/144,Paragraph 3:Questions,1.What does the author mean when he says“.E-mail and computer conferencing is teaching an entire generation about the flexibility and utility of prose”?,The author means that E-mail and computer conferencing demonstrate to a whole generation of people that the language we use does not have to be always so formal as in traditional letter writing;it can be used in a casual manner while still serving its purpose effectively.,55/144,Paragraph 3:Questions,2.What does the author wish to convey in his comparison between netwriting with“scribblers compacts,”Mark Twains discovery of new journalism in San Fran