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I am very old now. I was born in China. Many people used me for calculating in the past, but now I am a bit lonely because they don’t like me now. Do you know who I am? I am very small. I can be used for calculating. In China, a lot of students use me when solving mathematical problems. Do you know who I am? * * READING Lead-in（ Guess! ） A toy? A handbag? abacus Guess more: calculator I can be used for calculating. Besides, I can also be used for watching DVD, sending e-mail and communicating through the Internet. However, I am not a PC, because I’m small enough for you to take me with you. Laptop Do you know who I am? A huge computer A PC PDA abacus laptop calculator Who am I? Pre-reading 1. Who is the speaker ? 2. What’s the passage about? It’s about the history of computer. 3. In which order is the text written? According to the time It is a computer. Fasting reading to get general ideas Reading now 1970s 1960s 1940s 1936 1822 1642 The computer began as a calculating machine． Alan Turing wrote a book to describe how computers could be made to work． Computers had grown as large as a room. Computers were used in offices and homes． Computers connect people all over the world together. The Analytical Machine was made by Charles Babbage. The first family of computers was connected to each other. Careful reading to get detailed information Reading Support-ing details Topic sentence Paragraph3 Paragraph2 Paragraph1 Over time I have been changed quite a lot. These changes only become possible as my memory improved. Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● calculating machine analytical machine universal machine PC laptop tubes transistors chips network World Wide Web communications finance trade robots mobile phones operations space rockets True or False Alan Turing built an Analytical Machine to solve any mathematical problem