大学体验英语第四册 unit2.pptVIP

Experiencing English Book Four Unit 2 Culture Procedure Lead-in Activities Listen— Living Online Passage A Warm-up Activity Cultural Notes Language Points Difficult sentences Summary Follow-up Activity Assignment Lead-in Listen to the following passage about Living Online and fill in the missing words. How do you meet new people, make new friends, or find out about the latest bands? Here in the UK young people have traditionally done their ________ in bars, pubs and clubs. However, there is a new generation growing up that finds it easier to ______ their social lives on the net, using free websites like MySpace, Bebo or MSN Spaces. Welcome to the social networking website — a place where you can ______ yourself to the _______ community and meet other like-minded people. The most successful social networking website in the UK is MyS. As of July 2006, MySpace is the world’s fourth most popular English-language website, attracting almost _________________________. MySpace claims to have 95 million members with 500,000 new members joining the community each week. So how has it become so successful?_______________. Each new member can build their own page simply – _______ photos, videos and MP3 files. Then they describe themselves, listing their likes, dislikes, favorite bands, relationship status, etc. It’s an easy way to hook up with people who share your interests. Briana Dougherty, a 25-year-old MySpace devotee, told us, “It’s a casual way to stay in contact without appearing weird”. ______________________________________, to new acquaintance but are perfectly happy to trade (交换) MySpace profiles. While socializing is the key to MySpace’s success, love of music is at the heart of the community. Indeed, most aspiring musicians in the UK upload their songs to the site, and with good reason: unsigned artists, Arctic Monkeys and Lilly Allen created such a buzz (引起轰动)on the site that they were offe