第8单元 信息高速公路 Unit 8 Information Highway.pptVIP

* Unit 8 Information Highway 导学内容 Computers are essential to life in the 1990’s Cyberspace for kids How to spend the money 导学目标 At the end of this unit, you should be able to: describe the various used of a computer talk about developments in computer science explain technical terms paraphrase difficult language relating to computers make inferences about a writer’s attitude put forward arguments 重点难点 Getting some key technical words relating to computers. Learning how to use some phrases in this unit. Presenting an argument. 1) Do you know how to use a computer? 2) How many key technical words of computer do you know? P395 Pre-reading Discuss: B Reading for details: What couldn’t the writer do tem years ago? The writer couldn’t even type well ten years ago. She could only tap away at the keyboard. 2) What is artificial intelligence’? Artificial intelligence’ means development of computers’. 3) What did the write sincerely believe ten years ago? Ten years ago the writer sincerely believed that she could live happily without advanced technology because she was not interested in machines and artificial intelligence’. B Reading for details: 4) What’s your attitude like? It seems to us that we have no choice in this computer ago because computer technology has been used in every field in the society and a computer has become a part of our life and work. 5) What can she do on a computer how? Type a document into the computer. Use different sizes and style of type face to edit a documant. Underline Write word in bold Type in italic Insert illustration Save the document Print the document on the printer Post-reading 1) hardware 硬件 2) software 软件 3) hard disks 硬盘 4) floppy disk 软盘 5) a lap-top or 笔记本电脑 6) a desk-top computer 台式电脑 7) RAM 随机存取存储器 8) program 程序 9) database 数据库 10) Microsoft 微软 11) IBM 国际商用机器(公司) 12) windows 窗口 13) DOS 磁盘操作系统 14) E-mail 电子邮件 15) internet 因特网 1