北师大版_高中英语Unit4_Lesson_1课件.ppt

* Unit 4 Lesson 1 Tomorrow’s World Imagine life in the next twenty years. How do you think technology will change our lives? Go shopping online. Needn’t carry cash and use credit cards. Instead of going to the bank you can use a computer and a telephone to pay for bills. have virtual reality schools communicate by e-mail get new films on the Internet get all our entertainment on the Internet read newspapers on the Internet. 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 Step 2 Pre-reading Listen to the record of the article and check your guess to question 2 above. the Internet virtual reality Learning vocabulary Read the article and match the vocabulary from the text below with the definitions. hacker, chaos, terrorist, the Net (Internet), virtual reality, crash 1、a person who enters other people’s computer programmes in secret hacker 2. The use of computers to make situations feel and look real virtual reality 3. have an accident by violently hitting something 4. someone who does terrible things to harm countries, governments and people crash terrorist 5. computer system that allows millions of people around the world to share information the Net 6. A terrible situation in which everything goes wrong chaos Step 3 While-reading Listen to the tape again and match the paragraphs with these headings . a) Pessimistic opinions b) Seeing the future c) Optimistic opinions d) The Internet growth 2 4 3 1 Questions: Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions. Why are some experts pessimistic about the future? 1. One worry is crime in cyberspace. Young hackers can get into the computers of banks and governments. 3. Terrorists “attack” the world’s computers, cause chaos, and make planes and trains crash. 2. W