[外语学习]全新版大学英语第四册第二单元smart cars.pptVIP

have a mutual relationship or connection, in which one thing affects or depends on another (followed by with / to) correlate 1.Medical evidence shows that smoking and lung cancer are correlated. 2.A mother’s smoking in pregnancy correlates with low birth weight in her baby. examples ? ? While-reading tasks Finding out definitions In part two, we will find some terms in quotation marks or with capitalized first letters,such as “blind spot”, Global Positioning System, “atomic clocks”, “telematics” and “automated driver”. What do they mean? How do we find out? 3. “atomic clocks” 4. telematics 1. “blind spot” 2. Global Positioning System What do they mean? How do we find out? For example, when you come across this sentence in Para. 5 the last line. I believe an efficient reader knows. You can make a guess based on knowledge of word-formation or knowledge of the world or the context. “Should you make a serious driving mistake(e.g. change lanes when there is a car in your “blind spot”) the computer would sound an immediate warning” You can guess from the context that a blind spot must be a portion of the road behind a car, which a driver can not observe from the rear-view mirror. What is GPS? And can you tell me it’s function? What is an atomic clock? What is an automated driver? We can guess the meaning of “telematics” from its word formation. Pay attention here: The prefix “-matics” may be the end part of “informatics”. Then the sentence in the text — Para. 11 the first sentence: “GPS is actually but part of a larger movent, called ‘telematics’” — tells us more about it. So, to be an efficient reader, you should learn to guess the words meaning based on knowledge of word formation. And in this unit, we are going to learn one important word formation, that is — Abbreviation Word formation Please turn to page 49 In Book Ⅲ, we touched upon