Unit 1 Living with technology welcome to the unit课件 牛津译林版选修7.pptVIP

What electrical and electronic products do you use in your studies? How have different electronic devices changed over time? How have these inventions improved people’s lives? These inventions have greatly improved people’s lives. Mobile phones are a good example of this. Before mobile phones came into use, people couldn’t make phone calls or receive phone calls if there was no telephone nearby. With mobile phones, people are able to make calls at any time and at any place. Today, many of us are very busy and cannot be expected to wait for a long time. Mobile phones provide us with a chance to keep in touch with others wherever we are. * Unit 1 Living with Technology Welcome to the unit What electrical and electronic products do you use in your life? Microwave ovens, refrigerators, TV sets, air conditioners, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, CD players, electric fans, mobile phones, digital cameras…. Which do you think is the most useful? Picture 1: Compare the TV in the picture with the TV in your home: 1.An antenna on top 2.the small screen 3.only black and white pictures 4.no remote control How did people record music in the past? put the tapes into the recorder, then play the tape with music at one side and play the record button at the other side to record the music onto the blank tape. How do people record music using a computer? Copy the music from a CD to the computer using recording software.The music will then be digitalized and stored in and played by an MP3 player. How do you look up a word in a paper dictionary? The words in a paper dictionary are arranged in alphabetical order from ‘A’ to ‘Z’. We need to look at the first letter of the word and use it to search in the dictionary. If two words start with the same letter, we look at the second letter to decide the alphabetical order. If the first and the second letters are the same, we look at the third letter and so on. How do you look up