《Computers》课件2（人教版必修2）.pptVIP

I am very old now. I was born in China. Many people used me for calculating(计算) in the past, but now I am a bit lonely because they don’t like me now. Do you know who I am? I am very small. I can be used for calculating. In China, a lot of students use me when solving mathematical(数学的) problems. Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am ? Scan the text and then answer the following questions: 1.Who is the speaker? 2.What the text might be about? This reading passage is mainly about the and the of the computer. True or false 1. Charles Babbage was the computers’ real father. 2. The speaker was built as an Analytical Machine in 1822. 3. The speaker was called a calculating machine in 1936. 4. The speaker was given a family connected by a network in the late 1960s. Changes in size 1._______________ (earlier) 2._______________ ( in the past) 3.____________________ (modern) Development in functions Discussion: what other functions will computers have in the future? Or what will computers be like? Use the following expressions: I think that…… In my opinion…… I believe that…… It would be nice if…… richer and richer; stronger and stronger; easier and easier Retelling I began as a _______ ________ in 1642 in France. In 1822 I was built as an _____ ______. Then in 1936 Alan Turing wrote a book and built a _______ ______. As the years have___ ___, I have been made___ ___ _______ but I got ____ ____ ___,____ __ ____. In the 1960s they gave me a family____ __ __ _____. Now people call it the Internet. I was _____ ____ ____ ___ in the 1970s.So I became PC. Since my birth I have truly been built to serve the human race. calculate calculating machine --- Analytical Machine --- follow instructions universal machine--- solve mathematical problems; artificial intelligence Computer connected by a network share information with others; talk to each other;