Unit 1 Living with technology课件24（牛津高中选修7）.ppt

Are they helpful or just make you lazier? Man has made remarkable progress in this area in the last few decades. ● 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 or electronic devices, they throw away the old ones. This may generate large amount of waste, which is harmful to the environment. What differences can you find between the TV in your home and the TV in this picture? What did people need when they wanted to record music in the past? Tapes and a tape recorder. People put the tapes into the recorder, then played the tape with music at one side and pushed the play and record buttons at the other side to record the music onto the blank tape. A computer, an MP3 player and some recording software. People copy the music from a CD to the computer using recording software. The music will then be digitalized in and played by an MP Player. How many of you have an electronic dictionary? How do you look up a word in such a dictionary? 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 send e-mails. Today, most people use mobile phones to keep in touch with others. The size of a mobile phone is small so people can carry one in a pocket and receive and make calls wherever they are and whenever it is. Module 7 Unit 1 Living with technology Lead-in: 1._________ plays a