Unit 1 Living with technology -Welcome to the unit课件 译林牛津版选修7.ppt

Unit 1 Living with technology What electrical and electronic products do you use in your studies and in your life? Are they helpful or just make you lazier? Electronic dictionaries give students quick responses in their reading. Students using electronic dictionaries need less time in reading than those who use paper dictionaries. Moreover, electronic dictionaries can provide correct pronunciation to students, which a paper dictionary cannot. The number of people using electronic dictionaries is increasing greatly. What do you think life would be like without these products? What conclusion can you draw from the ads? Man has made remarkable progress in this area in the last few decades. What’s your opinion on this? ●They are invented to meet people’s needs. ●They have improved people’s lives to some degree. ●They are developing very quickly. ●The radiation from some of the electrical and electronic devices, such as mobile phones, may be harmful to people’s health. ●When people buy new electrical of electronic devices, they throw away the old ones. This may generate large amount of waste, which is harmful to the environment. There can be a calendar, a list of addresses and phone numbers, memos or a clock. More recent electronic dictionaries have large memory space and some can be used as electronic books with hundreds of books stored inside.) Which do you prefer, an electronic book or a traditional paper book? Why? How did people keep in touch in the past? People sent letters in the past, but letters were slow, and they took from a few days to several months to arrive. Then people invented the telegraph, but the telegraph could send only short sentences. Later, people could communicate via telephone, but the disadvantage was that not everyone had a telephone. Now, people use e-mails to communicate. E-mails are quick, but people without computers and access to the Internet cannot s