1、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,*,integrating skills 1,computer can be used as.,typewriter,projector,drawing,board,video game p,l,ayer,internet,How does we use the internet?,watch,camera,telephone,calendar,cell phone can be used as.,1.What is the“information age”?,A time of new discoveries
2、 and great changes.,New technology always used in old ways,1.Whats the meaning of the title?,2.Why are scientific metaphors like“memory and“paste”useful?How may they limit our thinking?,Fast-reading:,Language points,Pragraph1,:It is certainly true that,We,are said to be living,in the“Information Age
3、a time of new discoveries and great changes,(p62),Sb,said to do sth/be said to be doing/to have done sth,e.g,He is said to be a good basketball player when he was young.,It is said that,a time of new discoveries and great changes,是同位语,Has our life changed,that,much?.(P63)that=so,在口语中程度副词可以由,so,very
4、来代替,Pragraph2,:A computers“memory,is similar to,human memory,but it is also very different.(pragraph2,line6)A be similar to B,e.g.His new bike is similar to mine.,.After all,What makes a new invention such a wonderful thing is that it,allow,us to do sth we could not do before.(pragraph2 line10),all
5、ow,允许,许可,.,进入,allow+,名,/doing,I will never allow such behavior.,我决不允许这样的行为,Smoking is not allowed here.,此地禁止吸烟,allow+sb,+to do,Are we allowed to play catch here?,我们可以在这里练习投球吗,?,Pragraph3:,Now that,we are developing new technology at such a high pace,the(pragraph3,line2),now that,既然,=since(since that
6、),e.g,Now that you have grown up,you must stop this childish behavior.,Practical computer English(,计算机术语,),out of data ,out of memory,overflow,copy,complete,file,delete,lock,enter,return,store,cut,paste,Computer History,Year/Enter,Computer History,Inventors/,Inventions,Computer History,Description o
7、f Event,1946,John,Presper,Eckert&John W.,Mauchly,ENIAC 1 Computer,20,000 vacuum tubes later.,1954,John Backus&IBM,FORTRAN Computer Programming Language,The first successful high level programming language.,1958,Jack,Kilby,&Robert,Noyce,The Integrated Circuit,Otherwise known as The Chip,1962,Steve Ru
8、ssell&MIT,Spacewar,Computer Game,The first computer game invented.,1969,ARPAnet,The original Internet.,1971,Faggin,Hoff&,Mazor,Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor,The first microprocessor.,1979,Seymour Rubenstein&Rob Barnaby,WordStar Software,Word Processors.,desktop computer,laptop computer,palmtop
9、computer,modern,computer,Choose one of the questions below and write a brief essay.,What will computer look like in the future?How will we use them?,Imagine that you had to describe a computer to someone who lived in nineteenth century.How would you explain it?What would you compare it to?,Writing,w
10、riting,Before we start writing,we should list ideas and information and think about the organization of our articles,.,Step1,.Computer is part of our life,Step2,.The development of computer,Step 3,The way we use computers will change,Sample description,:,Have you ever seen a computer?Let me tell you
11、 something about it.A computer is an electric calculating machine that can store and recall information and make calculations at a very high speed.It is a wonderful machine and can do most of the things people can do,but it work millions of times faster.The first large,modern computer was built in 1
12、946,and people needed a large house to put it in.In the last few years there have been great changes in computers.Today they can be used in many fields.People even use it to pay bills or order what they want.it is said that in the future computers would arrange everything for people,and do almost all kinds of work.that would be a real computer society.,Homework:,1Review words and expressions we have learnt in this unit,2Finish writing,






