Unit 3 Tomorrow’s world课件17（牛津高中必修4）.ppt

* Lesson 1 The Future of Cyberspace For example: We have more cars and computers are more and more popular. Go shopping online. Needn’t carry cash and use credit cards. Compared to 20 years ago how do you think technology will change our lives? Instead of going to the bank you can use a computer and a telephone to pay for bills. 1. Imagine what happens in the next twenty years? 2. What do you think the computer gives us advantage or disadvantage for our life? Look at the title of the article. Which of these topics do you think it will mention? * the Internet * artificial human * time travel * robots * global warming * virtual reality Read the article quickly and check your guess to question 2 above. In spite of the development of computers, it is unlikely to live in virtual reality . The text infers to us that worry is necessary and computers and the Internet may do bad to us. It is certain that in the future we will not go to school in the classroom like us. 4. According to the text, it is possible that people live in another world of outer space. 5. In virtual reality, you can go work but needn’t go to the place yourself. 6. Because of the rapid development of Internet television and the mail disappear and are replaced by computer. Learning vocabulary Match the vocabulary from the text below with the definitions. hacker, chaos, terrorist, the Net (Internet), virtual reality, crash a person who enters other people’s computer programmes in secret hacker 2. The use of computers to make situations feel and look real. 3. have an accident by violently hitting something. 4. some who does terrible things to harm countries, governments and people. virtual reality crash terrorist 6. A terrible situation in which everything goes wrong 5. computer system that allows millions of people around the world to share information the Net (Internet) chaos In the last thirty years, the Internet grew rapidly. 2. Terrorist may “at