大学英语读写综合教程2.课件Unit4.ppt

1、B R _ Computer-related vocabulary 1,Computer-related Vocabulary,The most dynamic combining forms/prefixes for new computer- and Internet-related vocabulary in English are cyber-, virtual, Net- (net), Web- (web-), and E- (e-).,1. combining forms/prefixes + noun,virtual life (虚拟世界),virtual office(虚拟办公

2、室), cyber-interaction(网络互动), cyber nut,nethead(网虫), cyber pet(电子宠物),Web page(网页), website(网站), e-card(电子贺卡),e-business,e-commerce(电子商务)cyberculture（网络文化）,cyberspace（网络空间）,Web TV（网络电视）, e-cash（电子货币）,net-writer（发送电子邮件的人）,E-shopper（网上购物者）,e-journal(电子杂志)E-book（电子书籍），webmaster（网站维护者）,B R _ Computer-rela

3、ted vocabulary 2,2. combining forms/prefixes + verb,cyber surf(网上冲浪), netsurf(网上冲浪), email(发送电子邮件)，websurf, 网络漫游，,3. words like cyber, net, etc. + suffix,Cyberian，cybernaut(网络用户), netter(网民), cyberize(使联网)cyberphobia(电脑恐惧症),4. clipped words,cyberdoc(网络医生), Netcast(网络播放), Netizen(网民), e-zine(电子杂志)Web

4、nomics（网络经济）e-tailing电子零售,In information technology, SOHO is a term for the small office or home office environment and business culture. A number of organizations, businesses, and publications now exist to support people who work or have businesses in this environment. These people neednt go to the

5、 office every day. They work at home without worrying about their dress and the strict rules of the company. The term “virtual office” is sometimes used as a synonym.,B R _ SOHO Small-Office/Home-Office 1,SOHO Small-Office/Home-Office,1. What do you guess is the meaning of SOHO in information techno

6、logy?,B R _ SOHO Small-Office/Home-Office 2,Writers, program designers, ad-agent, etc., all belong to the group of SOHO. Obviously, the author of Text A is a member of them.,2. What kind of people do you think belong to the group of SOHO?,Virtual College affords individuals the opportunity to advanc

7、e in their chosen careers through on-line education. People can complete their education without leaving their home or office. However, they will have the college campus experience through a virtual classroom environment. The virtual classroom will allow them to interact with their instructors and o

8、ther students in the class. Through the virtual classroom students will share information with their “classmates” from all over the world. The virtual classroom is available 24 hours a day, allowing people to complete the courses at their convenience regardless of their work schedule.,B R _ Virtual

9、College 1,Virtual College,B R _ Virtual College 2,Some virtual colleges are: APCO Virtual College, Virtual College of Elizabeth City State University,B R _ Virtual College 3,1. Do you think virtual college will be popular in the future, why or why not?,2. What do you think are the advantages and dis

10、advantages of virtual college?,Open ended.,Questions and Answers to Virtual College:,Open ended.,communicating with people; shopping; reading; learning; working; publishing; listening to the music; watching films; playing games; etc.,1. What are the antonyms of “virtual world” and “virtual life”?,re

11、al world; real life,2. What are the synonyms for “virtual world”?,cyberspace; cyberia; virtual reality; Internet world; net world; etc.,3. What can people do on the Internet?,B R _ Warm-up Questions 1,Warm-up Questions,4. What do you usually do on the Internet, and what websites do you usually log o

12、n?,Open-ended.,B R _ Warm-up Questions 2,G R _ main,Part Division of the Text,Questions about the Text,Word Scanning,Further Understanding,G R _ Further Understanding,Further Understanding,Multiple Choice,True or False,Questions and Answers,G R _ Part Division of the Text 1,Part Division of the Text

13、,Parts,Para(s).,Main Ideas,1,1-3,2,4-10,Description of the authors virtual life,Her feeling about the virtual life,3,11-13,Her effort of returning to the real world and her feeling about the real world,The first paragraph tells about the consequences of living a virtual life and the last tells about

14、 the authors return to it. Together, they show us the dilemma people are in at present: Because of modern technology, we have a choice between a virtual life and real life, but we find both unsatisfactory. The author, however, finally has to choose the latter despite its negative effects.,G R _ Ques

15、tions and Answers 1,Questions and Answers,1. What is the main idea of Text A?,Despite the many negative effects of virtual life, the author prefers it to real life.,2. What are the roles of the first paragraph and the last?,G R _ Questions and Answers 2,Direction: Scan Text A to find out vocabulary

16、items related to computer and the Internet.,Title L1 L10 L10 L11 L13 L21,link cyber-interaction on line system crash click on the modem connection password,Internet mailing lists,virtual life,on the net,telecommuter,email,computer-assisted,data,L75,L21,L28,L45,L55,L76,L77,Word Scanning,G R _ Questio

17、ns and Answers 1,Questions and Answers,She had worked as a television producer, and now she submit articles and edit them via email and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists.,1. What did the author do three years ago and what is she doing now?,She can order food, manage her money, lo

18、ve and work on net.,2. How does the author manage her daily life?,G R _ Multiple Choice1,How does the author feel when she is suddenly confronted with people in the real world? _,Direction: Read Part 2 carefully and choose ONE best answer to complete the sentence.,A. She feels shy.,B. She feels angr

19、y.,C. She feels cautious.,D. She feels overexcited.,Multiple Choice,How does the author feel when she is suddenly confronted with people in the real world? _,A. She feels shy.,B. She feels angry.,C. She feels cautious.,D. She feels overexcited.,Direction: Read Part 2 carefully and choose ONE best an

20、swer to complete the sentence.,Multiple Choice,G R _ Multiple Choice1A,A,How does the author feel when she is suddenly confronted with people in the real world? _,A. She feels shy.,B. She feels angry.,C. She feels cautious.,D. She feels overexcited.,Direction: Read Part 2 carefully and choose ONE be

21、st answer to complete the sentence.,Multiple Choice,G R _ Multiple Choice1B,B,How does the author feel when she is suddenly confronted with people in the real world? _,A. She feels shy.,B. She feels angry.,C. She feels cautious.,D. She feels overexcited.,Direction: Read Part 2 carefully and choose O

22、NE best answer to complete the sentence.,Multiple Choice,G R _ Multiple Choice1C,C,How does the author feel when she is suddenly confronted with people in the real world? _,Direction: Read Part 2 carefully and choose ONE best answer to complete the sentence.,Multiple Choice,G R _ Multiple Choice1D,D

23、,A. She feels shy.,B. She feels angry.,C. She feels cautious.,D. She feels overexcited.,G R _ Multiple Choice2,2. How does the author behave on line? _,A. She is friendly.,B. She is humorous.,C. She is bad-tempered.,D. She is talkative.,2. How does the author behave on line? _.,A. She is friendly.,B

24、. She is humorous.,C. She is bad-tempered.,D. She is talkative.,G R _ Multiple Choice2A,A,G R _ Multiple Choice2B,2. How does the author behave on line? _.,A. She is friendly.,B. She is humorous.,C. She is bad-tempered.,D. She is talkative.,B,G R _ Multiple Choice2C,2. How does the author behave on

25、line? _.,A. She is friendly.,B. She is humorous.,C. She is bad-tempered.,D. She is talkative.,C,2. How does the author behave on line? _.,G R _ Multiple Choice2D,A. She is friendly.,B. She is humorous.,C. She is bad-tempered.,D. She is talkative.,D,G R _ Multiple Choice3,3. Why does the author fight

26、 her boyfriend on net sometimes? _,A. Because they havent seen each other for a long time.,B. Because their typed dialogue lack emotional cues and she misinterprets it.,C. Because he doesnt love her any longer.,D. Because he doesnt send e-mails to her frequently.,G R _ Multiple Choice3A,3. Why does

27、the author fight her boyfriend on net sometimes? _,A. Because they havent seen each other for a long time.,B. Because their typed dialogue lack emotional cues and she misinterprets it.,C. Because he doesnt love her any longer.,D. Because he doesnt send e-mails to her frequently.,A,G R _ Multiple Cho

28、ice3B,3. Why does the author fight her boyfriend on net sometimes? _,A. Because they havent seen each other for a long time.,B. Because their typed dialogue lack emotional cues and she misinterprets it.,C. Because he doesnt love her any longer.,D. Because he doesnt send e-mails to her frequently.,B,

29、G R _ Multiple Choice3C,3. Why does the author fight her boyfriend on net sometimes? _,A. Because they havent seen each other for a long time.,B. Because their typed dialogue lack emotional cues and she misinterprets it.,C. Because he doesnt love her any longer.,D. Because he doesnt send e-mails to

30、her frequently.,C,G R _ Multiple Choice3D,3. Why does the author fight her boyfriend on net sometimes? _,A. Because they havent seen each other for a long time.,B. Because their typed dialogue lack emotional cues and she misinterprets it.,C. Because he doesnt love her any longer.,D. Because he doesn

31、t send e-mails to her frequently.,D,G R _ Multiple Choice4,4. What does the author think the daily routine is? _,A. Dressing for work.,B. Work with colleagues at the office.,C. Sleeping normal hours.,D. All the above.,G R _ Multiple Choice4A,4. What does the author think the daily routine is? _,A. D

32、ressing for work.,B. Work with colleagues at the office.,C. Sleeping normal hours.,D. All the above.,A,G R _ Multiple Choice4B,4. What does the author think the daily routine is? _,A. Dressing for work.,B. Work with colleagues at the office.,C. Sleeping normal hours.,D. All the above.,B,G R _ Multip

33、le Choice4C,4. What does the author think the daily routine is? _,A. Dressing for work.,B. Work with colleagues at the office.,C. Sleeping normal hours.,D. All the above.,C,G R _ Multiple Choice4D,4. What does the author think the daily routine is? _,A. Dressing for work.,B. Work with colleagues at

34、the office.,C. Sleeping normal hours.,D. All the above.,D,G R _ Multiple Choice1,True or False,1. The author tries to at least get to the gym in order to keep fit.,F,The author tries to at least get to the gym, so that she may set apart the weekend from the rest of her week.,( ),2. The author can ge

35、t used to the real world very well.,F,She finds that sometimes being face to face is too much.,( ),G R _ Multiple Choice1A,3. The author cant bear her friends laughter and the noise in the restaurant.,T,( ),4. The author cant make a choice between the real world and the virtual one.,F,She finally ch

36、ooses the virtual world.,( ),After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriends Liverpool accent suddenly becomes impossible to interpret after his easily understood words on screen; a secretarys,secretarys clipped tone seems more rejecting than Id imagined it would be. Time

37、itself becomes fluid hours become minutes, or seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.,D R _ Text 1,A VIRTUAL LIFE,Mala Szalavitz,In fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy newspaper

38、s and groceries. I watched most of the endless snowstorm of 96 on TV.,D R _ Text 2,For the last three years, since I stopped working as a television producer, I have done much of my work as a telecommuter. I submit articles and edit them via email and communicate with colleagues on Internet mailing

39、lists. My boyfriend lives in England, so much of our relationship is also computer-assisted.,If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything. I can order food, and manage my money, love and work.,But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal. I start to feel as though Ive

40、 become one with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another link in the Net. Others on line report the same symptoms. We start to feel an aversion to outside forms of socializing. We have become the Net critics worst nightmare. What first seemed like a luxury, crawling from be

41、d to computer, not worrying about hair, and clothes and face, has become a form of escape, a lack of discipline. And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back out of the cave can be quite difficult.,D R _ Text 3,D R _ Text 4,I find myself shyer, more cautious, m

42、ore anxious. Or, conversely, when suddenly confronted with real live humans, I get overexcited, speak too much, interrupt. I constantly worry if I am,am dressed appropriately, that perhaps Ive actually forgotten to put on a skirt and walked outside in the T-shirt and underwear I sleep and live in.,D

43、 R _ Text 5,At times, I turn on the television and just leave it to talk away in the background, something that Id never done previously. The voices of the programs are comforting, but then Im jarred by the commercials. I find myself sucked in by soap operas, or needing to keep up with the latest ne

44、ws and the weather. “Dateline,” “Frontline,” “Nightline,” CNN, New York 1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me. Work moves into the background. I decide to check my email.,On line, I find myself attacking everyone in sight. I am bad

45、-tempered, and easily angered. I find everyone on my mailing list insensitive, believing that theyve forgotten that there are people actually reading their wounding remarks. I dont realize that Im projecting until after Ive been embarrassed by someone who politely points out that Ive attacked her fo

46、r agreeing with me. When Im in this state, I fight my boyfriend as well, misinterpreting his intentions because of the lack of emotional cues given by our typed dialogue. The fight takes hours, because the system keeps crashing. I say a line, then he does, then crash! And yet we keep on, doggedly.,D

47、 R _ Text 6,Id never realized how important daily routine is: dressing for work, sleeping normal hours. Id never thought I relied so much on co-workers for company. I began to understand why long-term unemployment can be so damaging, why life without an externally supported daily plan can lead to hi

48、gher rates of drug abuse, crime, suicide. To restore balance to my life, I force myself back into the real world. I call people, arrange to meet with the few remaining friends who havent fled New York City. I try to at least get to the gym, so as to set apart the weekend from the rest of my week. I

49、arrange interviews for stories, doctors appointments anything to get me out of the house and connected with others.,D R _ Text 7,D R _ Text 8,But sometimes being face to face is too much. I see a friend and her ringing laughter is intolerable the noise of conversation in the restaurant, unbearable.

50、I make my excuses and flee. I re-enter my apartment and run to the computer as though it were a place of safety.,I click on the modem, the once-annoying sound of the connection now as pleasant as my favorite tune. I enter my password. The real world disappears.,D R _ Sentence 1 _ My boyfriends ,What

51、 does the sentence imply?,I have become more familiar with the virtual world than the real world.,My boyfriends Liverpool accent suddenly becomes impossible to interpret after his easily understood words on screen: a secretarys clipped tone seems more rejecting than Id imagined it would be.,D R _ Se

52、ntence 2 _ We have become the ,Paraphrase the sentence.,We have got into a situation that critics of the Net describe as most dreadful.,We have become the Net critics worst nightmare.,D R _ Sentence 3 _ And once 1 ,And once you start replacing real human contact with cyber-interaction, coming back o

53、ut of the cave can be quite difficult.,What does “cyber-interaction” mean?,“Cyber-” is a prefix which means “of the computer”. “Cyber-interaction” means the contact with the computer.,What does “cave” here refer to?,“Cave” here refers figuratively to the isolated life of the virtual world.,D R _ Sen

54、tence 4 _ And once 2 ,Paraphrase the second part of the sentence.,Returning to normal society from the isolated life of the virtual world can be quite a problem.,D R _ Sentence 5 _ At times ,Translate the sentence into Chinese.,有时我把电视机开着，让它作为背景声音一直响着，以前我从不这样做。,At times, I turn on the television and

55、just leave it to talk away in the background, something that Id never done previously.,D R _ Sentence 6 _ He “Dateline” ,Give the Chinese equivalents for “Dateline”, “Frontline”, “Nightline”, “CNN”, “New York1”.,“每日新闻”、“一线新闻”、“夜间新闻”、“有线新闻电视网”、“纽约一套”。,“Dateline,” “Frontline,” “Nightline,” CNN, New Yo

56、rk1, every possible angle of every story over and over and over, even when they are of no possible use to me.,D R _ Sentence 7 _ Work moves ,Work moves into the background.,What does this sentence mean?,It means work becomes less important.,Why does work become less important?,Because in my eye, com

57、municating with the real world has become more important at that time.,D R _ Sentence 8 _ When Im ,Why do I misinterpret my boyfriends intention?,Because the typed dialogue lacks the emotion that is expressed and implied in the real dialogue.,When Im in this state, I fight my boyfriend as well, misi

58、nterpreting his intention because of the lack of emotional cues given by our typed dialogue.,D R _ Sentence 9 _ I arrange ,What does “story” here refer to?,I arrange interview for stories, doctors appointments anything to get me out of the house and connected with others.,“Story” here refers to any

59、descriptive article in a newspaper or an event, a situation, etc. suitable for such an article.,D R _ word _ virtual 1,virtual: adj.,I can visit a virtual store and put what I want in my basket at the click of a mouse button.,1. created and existing only in a computer,Some people spend too much time escaping from reality into the virtual world conjured up on their computer screens.,D R _ word _ virtual 2,2. almost what is stated; in fact though not in name,The officials