Book4Unit4SectionA.ppt

Discussion 2. What do we do with the Internet now? Analysis of the Text The passage explores the topic from different aspects: the advantages of the telecommunications revolution, questions that need considering in conducting it, and how to realize it in different countries. So the pattern of writing the writer adopts for the text is as follows: Analysis of the Text Part I Advantages of the Revolution (Para. ?) Q1: What benefits will the revolution bring to the third world? Q2: Is it true of the Third World that, the faster they go ahead with the revolution, the more benefits they will reap from it? Why? Q: What device of writing is employed herein? A: Comparisons between past and present, between convention and reform Part II How to conduct the revolution (Paras. ?) Q1: What’s the problem with Russia in this reform? Q2: What’s happening to China and Shanghai? Q3: How did Hungary conduct its revolution? Q4: What change is taking place in Latin America? Q5: Why do the Thais prefer the new technologies? Q6: What ambition does Vietnam harbor? Q: The Main Idea of Part II ? Part III Conclusion (Para. 11) Q: How does the writer conclude his writing? Passage Reading Para. 1 Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring…. deaf and dumb is used to refer to those areas where people were unable to communicate with the outside world because of the lack of the telecommunications facilities. Para. 1 … and industrial zones from Beijing to Budapest are stepping directly into the Information Age. zone, district, region area zone: an area marked off from others by particular qualities or activities a residential zone a nuclear-free zone region: usu. large, part of a country the semi-desert regions of Australia district: smaller than a region, usu. a fixed division of a country or city the Xuanwu district of Najing area: the most general word, small or large, not fixed Para. 2 All these developing r