Integrating skills

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Unit18
Integrating skills
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Stone Age
Iron Age
Bronze Age
Information Age
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typewriter
video game player
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projector
drawing board
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sending e-mails
shopping
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listening to music
watching movies
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sending Emails
a TV set
a telephone
a radio
a library
reading news
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What does we use cellphones for?
watching videos
taking photos
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finding destinations
watch/calendar/alarm clock
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MP3
sending messages
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Scanning
1.What is the information age?
2.How can we describe the inventions, For
example the computer?
3. In the information age, what is the true
challenge for us?
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1.What is the information age?
A time of new discoveries and great changes
2.How can we describe the inventions, For
example the computer?
Metaphor words such as memory, store and
cut and paste
3. In the information age, what is the true
challenge for us?
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1. Think of more metaphor words we use to
talk about computers and Internet.
Words like copy, file, delete, lock enter,
return, store.
2.what does the writer think about of using the
scientific metaphors?
Make it easier for us to understand and use a new
tool Make it more difficult for us to use the new
invention in the best way
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Language points

• 1. It is certainly true that
• We are said to be living in the
  Information Age
• a time of new discoveries and great
  changes
• (???)

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It is certainly true thatit???????????
It is possible that It is known that It
is likely that It is strange/natural/true/won
derful that
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sb. said to do sth. / be said to be
doing/ to have done sth. e.g. He is said to
be a good basketball player when he
was young. It is said that he is a good
basketball player when he was young.
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????? It is reported / decided / announced
/ proved / supposed / guessed / thought that
2. Has our life changed that much?... that
so ??,???????????so, very????
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e.g. I cant walk that far. Why do you keep
me waiting that long? There are
about 2,000 people present at the meeting
in the hall. I didnt expect it to be
that full.
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• 3. A computers memory" is similar to human
  memory, but it is also very different.
• be similar to ???
• e.g. His new bike is similar to mine.

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4. ...After all, what makes a new invention such
a wonderful thing is that it allows us to do
something we could not do before. allow
?/doing I will never allow such behavior.
???????????
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Smoking is not allowed here. ??????? allow sb.
to do Are we allowed to play football
here? ????????????
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5. Now that we are developing new technology at
such a high pace, the now that
??since(since that) e.g. Now that you have
grown up, you must stop this childish
behavior.
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Writing
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an electric calculating machine
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laptop computer
palmtop computer
desktop computer
modern computer
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Choose one of the questions below and write a
brief essay.
1. What will computer look like in the
future? How will we use them? 2. Imagine that
you had to describe a computer to someone who
lived in nineteenth century .How would you
explain it? What would you compare it to?
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Writing tips
Before we start writing, we should list ideas
and information and think about the organization
of our articles.
Step 1. Step 2. Step 3.
Computer is part of our life
The development of computer
The way we use computers will change
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A sample
Have you ever seen a computer? Let me tell
you something about it. A computer is an electric
calculating machine that can store and recall
information and make calculations at a very high
speed. It is a wonderful machine and can do most
of the things
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people can do, but it work millions of times
faster. The first large, modern computer was
built in 1946, and people needed a large house to
put it in. In the last few years there have been
great changes in computers. Today they can be
used in many fields.
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People even use it to pay bills or order what
they want. It is said that in the future
computers would arrange everything for people,
and do almost all kinds of work. That would be a
real computer society.
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Reading on P133
Listen to the tape, then read the passage
carefully and fill in the chart.
Ex.1 Complete the chart below with information
from the text.
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Invention Possible uses
Invisible paint 1. _________________ 2. ______________________ __________________
_________ _____________________ _____________________ ___________
Interesting clothes.
Help doctors see through the skin/hide things.
Help doctors operate on people in a safer and
less painful way.
Tiny robot
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Ex.2 The text mentions several other ideas for
new inventions. Work in pairs and try to imagine
ways in which the new inventions could be used.
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Invention Possible uses
Device that lets us send information to the brain
Device that makes energy from empty space
Learn English.
Remember phone numbers.
Cheap and clean energy.
Use on spaceships.
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Homework
Writing a Travel Diary.
Outline Destination Description Climate
Impression Feeling
Finish the writing. Review the new words and
expressions.