M7U1 Reading.pptVIP

Language points * 为科技咋舌，与时代同吻！ Unit 1 Living with technology What can the new technology be often used in our lives? Cell-phone The Internet Computer Usage Technology as a typewriter / tape recorder / VCD player / notebook / calendar / telephone / calculator as a library / magazine / TV / telephone / bank / store as a telephone / watch / calendar / camera / computer Information for good measure Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple has produced products that have change the way people around the world communicate, obtain information and enter themselves. Whether they’re iPods, iPhones or iPads, they have become a part of daily life for around the world. Jobs actually changed the way that we download music, changed the way that we use headsets, and also changed the way that we use computers. Apple didn’t invent personal computers, it didn’t invent the mouse and windows interface, it didn’t invent digital music players. It takes a lot of concepts and repurpose them, repackage them, make them beautiful and everybody wants to have them. They always had a way to take technology and make it again affordable and easy to use and therefore popular. Fast reading The (1) of video and sound devices TV Early (2) of TV The modern age: (3) TV (in (4) order) (5) and sound devices Early history of sound recorders (6) and video recorders Sound and video go (7) The future (by (8) of devices) Reading strategy on Page 3 Structure of the passage Part I TV Part II Sound and video devices Careful Reading ? ? Part I When and where was the first long-distance TV broadcast made? 2.Who might be the inventor of the first TV? A. Emile Berliner from Germany B. Philo Farnsworth in the USA. C. John Logie Baird in the UK D. It remains uncertain. Part II From the history of sond and video recorders, we can know except that_________. They are becoming smaller and smaller in size. Technology is changing faster than most people