北师大英语Unit 4 Warm-up.pptVIP

Unit 4 Cyberspace In this unit you will … Read about the internet and virtual reality. Listen to a phone conversation, radio programmes and a song. Practise telephoning and making suggestions. Write an e-mail message and an internet page about your area. Learn how to make predictions about the future; learn about conditionals. Cyberspace is the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place. It is virtual space we pass through when surfing the Internet. What is cyberspace? 2004 - The Day after Tomorrow is a movie about global warming and how it will destroy cities and change the world in the future. The Day After Tomorrow 2001 - A.I. is a movie about a boy who doesn’t know that he is really a robot. 1866 - From the Earth to the Moon is a book about people traveling to the moon. Have you read the books? 1977-2004 - The movies that make up Star Wars are about wars in space. There are many amazing characters in these movies. 1. Which of the films and books mentioned on this page have you seen or read? Which of the predictions in them: have already come true? b) do you think will come true in your lifetime? What other predictions do you know from science fiction books or films that have come true? 2. Listen to four experts. Which predictions are they discussing? Use the Key Words to help you. Key Words robot, artificial human, cyberspace, planet’s climate, global warming, world flooding, time travel, virtual reality, virus an electro-mechanical machine, usually guided by computer or electronic programming, and thus able to do tasks on its own. 2. one looking and moving like a person robot artificial human Guess the meaning of the following words. 3. a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks 5. the increase in the average temperature of the earth’s near surface air and oceans global warming cyberspace 4. the weather conditions of the world planet’s climate wor