北师大版（2019）高中英语选择性必修第四册 Unit10 Lesson1 精品课件.pptxVIP

Unit 10 CONNECTIONSLesson 1 How closely connected are we? 1. How many of you use social media?2. Which social media do you have a personal account?Activate and share Work in groups and discuss the question. How many contacts do you have on social media? How many people do you regularly communicate with? Have you heard of the theory “Six Degrees Separation”?Do you know how many peope you can connect with any other person on the planet? Read the article and find the main idea.This article introduces what the theory of “Six Degrees Separation” is and how it develops. Read the first two paragraphs of the article. What does the theory “Six Degrees of Separation” mean and who invented this theory?It states that any person on Earth can be connected to any other person through a chain of no more than five other people. The theory was first introduced by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy in the early 20th century. Read the rest of the article. Find out about the development of the theory. Take nowts in the table below. 1967Mid-1990sWhoHow Findings/ resultsStanley MilgramHe chose a random sample of people in the middle of America and asked them to send package to a stranger in the state of Massachusettes.It only took between five and seven people to get the parcels delivered.Two college students in the United StatesThey invented a game. The idea of the game was to link any actor to Kevin Bacon, a famous American actor and musician, through no more than six links.The game was being played in universities across the United States.hoHow Findings/ resultsColumbia University“Columbia Small-world Project”: Columbia University tried to recreate Milgram’s experiment on the Internet. The experiment involved 24,163 email chains with 18 target people in 13 different countries.The results confirmed that the average number of links in the chain was six.the University of MilanThe experiment analysed the relationship between 721 million social media users.92% were con