天津市滨海新区塘沽第二中学九年级英语上册Module4Unit2教学课件外研版.ppt

2. Read the passage and match the main ideas with the paragraphs. a The world before books, b The invention of printing c Life on paper and in print d Technology and books e Can books be replaced by computers? 3. Read the passage again. Make notes to complete the timeline. 4, Read the passage again and answer the questions. 1. Why were books expensive and rare before the invention of printing? 2. Why did ideas spread more quickly when books became cheaper? 3. What can we use to get information? Answer the questions. Use the words in the box to help you. create develop hold keep produce receive spread 1. When was paper first created? When do you think were first created? 2. Were books produced by hand or by machine at first? 3. What was the paper held against? 4. When was printing developed? 5. What can be kept on CD-ROMs? 6. What can be received online? 7. How Were ideas spread in the past? How are ideas spread today? 7. Look at how we give reasons /results. ...... books could only be produced one at a time...... As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there werent many books, few people learned to read. ... and newspapers and magazines: can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? These machines are smaller and lighter than books so that they can be carried very easily. Now answer the questions. Write complete sentences. --Why is it hard to imagine a word without print? 1.What was the result of books becoming cheaper? (as a result) 2.Why must printing be thought of as one of the most important inventions? (because) 3. More people learned to read in the 11th century. What happened then? (so) 4. What development will mean that books wont be needed in the future? (so that) 8. Rewrite the notes in Activity 3 in full sentences. About 2,000 years ago, paper was first created ... produce vt