张汉熙高级英语第一册课件第8课.pptVIP

8 An Interactive Life from Newsweek Objectives To understand the text To learn the words and phrases about the interactive life To be familiar with the interactive life Teaching Contents 1. Introduction (10 min.) 2. Detailed study of the text (140 min.) 3. Structure analysis (5 min.) 4. Language appreciation (5 min.) 5. Summary of words and phrases(5 min) 6. Exercises (15 min) 1. Introduction 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, The authors Barbara Kantrowitz and Joshua Cooper Ramo: regular contributors to Newsweek “An Interactive Life” was published in Newsweek on May 31, 1993 2. Detailed study of the text What’s the meaning of the title? An Interactive Life: a life which acts reciprocally, mutually, receives and gives in return “An Interactive Life” refers to the future life, meaning a life which acts reciprocally, mutually, receives and gives in return. This interactive life is the life with Internet, and this life will familiarize you with the world, change the ways you shop, play and learn. What does the essay try to describe to us? The essay describes to us an interactive life—the future life that will fully involves us all interactively, and suggest us that we should hang on for a ride even though we do not know when this life will come. Para. 1 Stepping into the past so as to  understand the future Why do people have to step back to see the future? Because the past indicates the development of the human history. We learn from history that every invention in history brings about great development. Techniques h