技术和幸福技术和幸福.ppt

Say Hello to the New Term Warming-up Topics My Spring Festival Gatnerings with my friends My new plans My English lesson A memorable gathering for me in the witner holiday The units we should deal with this term 2 4 5 6 7 Unit Two Man and Technology Technology Makes Your Life Easy Technology makes you... keep your memory with Wechat buy products at any time and in any place learn the world events in a second exercise with Wii dare to dream and make impossible possible Technology Makes Your Life ...easy or lazy? Technology makes you... keep your memory with Wechat, but... buy products at any time and in any place, but... learn the world events in a second, but... exercise with Wii,but... dare to dream and make impossible possible, but... It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of tommorrow. Questions: Living an easy and lazy life is a future direction? We know more about the world , but the reality is we ignore more. Is it true? Does technology make our life happier? Discussions What was China like in the 20th century?Still Remember Lu Yaos The Ordinary Wold?And what changes have taken place at the first decade of 21st century? What does East Asian countries refer to? Technology and Happiness Para. 1 Changes happened to Americans lives in the 20th century: Para. 2 Americans feel no happier than they were in 1946. Para. 3-4-5 Esterlins idea on correlation between technology and happiness. Do you agree with him on that point? and Why? Paras. 6-11 is to be continued. enjoy material and technological advances in previous eras gross domestic product per capita triple life expectancy luxury-necessity work extraordinary hard the pursuit of entertainment by most standards better off They are no happier than they were in 1946. the percentage ...has fallen slightly since... over the course of their working lives PARA.3 Richard Easterlins point of view