福建省高中英语必修二教学课件：Unit 4 Lesson 1.ppt

* 北师大版 高一 ( 2 ) Unit 4 Lesson 1 Tomorrow’s World What computers and internet bring us? convenient, high efficient For example: 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. Is it possible that the computer gives us disaster? 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. With the development of computers, our life may change in shopping and communicating ways. The text infers to us that worry is not necessary, computers and the Internet only do good to us. Some experts say in the future we will not go to school in the classroom like us. True or False T F T 4. In the future it is possible that people live in another world of outer space. 5. The text tell us you can do many things but needn’t go to the place yourself. 6. Because of the rapid development of Internet television and the mail will be replaced by computer. F T T 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 5. computer system that allows millions of people around the world to share information 6. A terrible situation in which everything goes wrong the Net (Internet) chaos In the last thirty years, the Internet grew rapidly. 2. Terrorist may “attack” the world’s