人教版高中英语必修2unit3Warming-upreading.pptVIP

Word Puzzle An old calculating machine used in China until now. It is a new calculating machine which can solve a large number of mathematical problems. It is a kind of computer which can be taken conveniently like a notebook. Have the computer and Internet become part of your life? How have computer changed our lives? (What can you use them to do? ) I use the computer or Internet to: type my homework draw pictures play games communicate with my friends. gather related information for my lessons buy the things I like, listen to music watch movies. * * Period 1 An abacus It is built to solve some mathematical problems. But it is too big. A huge computer A calculator It is a personal computer which can solve all kinds of problems and is used widely now. A PC (personal computer) A notebook computer What do they have in common? What else do you think the computer and Internet will help you to do ? This is a short ________ of the ______________ of computers. The main idea of the passage: history development Predicating Who am I ? Find out three sentences to support who the speaker is in the story. 1.Then in 1822 I was built …. (Itself was the first design of a computer) 2.My real father was Alan Turing. (He designed the first real computer.) 3.However, people thought I was simple-minded until…., (It has artificial intelligence.) True or False? In 1642 I began as a calculating machine and could solve any mathematical problem. My real father was Charles Babbage, who wrote a book and build me in 1936. After I got my new transistors in the 1960s, I became smaller but cleverer and quicker. I was brought into people’s homes in the 1970s. Since my birth I have been built to take the place of human race. F F T T F A chain of events showing the development of computer Changes of the machine Timeline 1642: __________________________ _______________________________ ____: the Analytical Machine was Made by Charles Babbage. 1936:___________________________ __