[文学]高级英语8课件An Interactive Life.ppt

Advanced English高级英语 ( 8 ) Lesson Eight An Interactive Life Background Information The text is taken from American Newsweek. Newsweek is American news weekly established in Dayton, Ohio in 1933. In it domestic and international news is summarized, analyzed and categorized according to topics each week. It also has special sections devoted to arts, science, medicine, sports, etc. it is one of the three largest newsweeklies of America and has a wide domestic and international circulation. The authors of the text, Barbara Kantrowitz and Joshua Cooper Ramo are regular contributors to Newsweek. What is interaction? Interaction is the key word in the text. It is the collective exchange of thoughts, feelings, or ideas between two or more people resulting in a reciprocal effect on each other. Can you come up with an example of interaction? Warming-up questions: How has information technology changed your life? What are the merits and demerits of information technology? (from a debate on BBC) On a completely different note from all messages below: I met my husband following a totally stray email in my inbox (and then some months of electronic correspondence). It was a considerable life change. Weve been happily married for three years now.Raluca, UK/currently in US Thanks to information technology, I can now get unsolicited and unwanted junk sent directly into my computer as well as through my letterbox and over my telephone line.Pete Hazell, High Wycombe, UK Considering the tremendous growth rate that the IT industry has experienced over the last 10 years, it staggers me to think of just WHAT will be readily available in, say, 50 years time! One fact cannot be denied, however - the growth of this technology has given nearly everyone much more CHOICE of how, when, where and why they do things! And that cant be a bad thing!Alan Hall, Evesham, Worcs. As a public librarian, we see many people who have Internet access, but do not know how to really use the Internet to m