Welcome to my class.

Diane Lai (Ms Lai), from Huizhou City.

Tracy

Asking for suggestions: If I want to communicate with my daughter often these days, which way, do you think, is the best for me?

If we want to chat on line, what should we have? We should have the Internet.

That is, with the Internet, we can chat on line. What else can we do with the Internet? with -- Via the Internet, we can … via

Chat on line

Search for information

Watch ball games, videos or movies

Listen to music

Send s

Play games

Shop on line

The Internet really brings us lots of conveniences.

How much do you know about the Internet?

Module 6 The Internet and Telecommunications Reading 高一外研版必修一

To get the general idea Task 1:

How to get the general idea: Find the topic of each paragraph. Reading the first sentence of each paragraph may give you help. Just try!

What is the passage mainly about? The passage is mainly about ＿＿＿ ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．

Topic of paragraph 1: What the Internet is Topic of paragraph 2: The invention of the Internet Topic of paragraph 3: What the World Wide Web is.

Topic of paragraph 4: The invention of the World Wide Web. Topic of paragraph 5: The development of the Internet Topic of paragraph 6: The influence of the Internet

The passage is mainly about the invention, the development and the influence of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

What kind of writing is the passage? It is an expository writing. It introduces sth to the readers.

Task 2: Fast Reading 1. What is the Internet? 2. How did it start? 3. What is the World Wide Web? 4. Who invented it?

1.What is the Internet ？ The Internet is the biggest _______ of information in the world and it’s ___________ through a computer. Answers checking source accessible

Where does information come from? Information comes from the Internet. =Internet is the place, from which information comes. source : place from which sth comes ( 来源；出处 )

The Internet is ___________ through a computer. accessible adj. 可使用的

2. How did the Internet start ?

DARPA created a network of computers called DARPANET. NSF started the NSFNET network. Berners-Lee came up with the idea of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. =sth appear in one ’ s suddenly 提 出 / 想出（计划，方案，答案等）

3.What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web is a computer network that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. get =

please list as many famous websites you’ve known as you can. internet

4. Who invented the World Wide Web? Tim Berners—Lee invented the World Wide Web.

To get detailed information Task Three:

True or false: (Find sentences in the passage to support your answers) 1. The US army were the first people to use a network of computers. ( ) 2. The percentage of websites in English is going up. ( ) 3. Tim Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university. ( ) 4. Tim Berners-Lee made a lot of money from his invention. ( ) T F T F

5. The World Wide Web is a computer network. ( ) 6. Using the World Wide Web, computer users can access information from millions of websites via the Internet. ( ) T T

7. At the moment about 80 percent of web traffic is in Chinese. ( ) 8. Berners-Lee made it possible for people all over the world to use Microsoft. ( ) F F

Listen to the tape and pay attention to the words you can’t pronounce correctly. Try to remember what we learn as much as possible from the passage. Then we will have a competition about what we learn in the passage ( 课文知识对抗赛 ).

Finish Exercise 4 in Page 53. Finish Exercise 6 in Page 53.

Let’s have a competition.

Answer the questions as quickly as possible. 1. What is the passage mainly about? The passage is mainly about the invention, the influence and the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

2. Did the universities start using the Internet at the same time as the army? If not, which earlier? No, they didn’t. The army started earlier.

3. What did Berners-Lee invent? The World Wide Web.

4. In which year was the World Wide Web invented by an English scientist? In 1991.

5. Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in_____. A. Switzerland B. Swiss C. England D. America A

Find the words in the passage and check if you know what they mean.

6. 易到达的；方便前往的，易接 近的；可使用的 adj. accessible 7. web browser 网络浏览器 8. 网络 network 9. 创造；发明 create

10. 文件 n. document 11. military 军事的； 军队的 12. defence 保护；保卫 13. communication 交际；交流

14. 组织 n. organization 15. army 军队 16. system 系统；体系 17. millionaire 百万富翁

18. 大学 n. university 19. consist of 由 …… 组成 20. data （复）数据 21. develop 发展

22. 来源；源头 n. source 23. percentage 百分数 24. website 网站；网址 25. access the Internet 上网

Check Ex.4 in Page 53

Homework 1. Read the text aloud and try to memorize it. Find the difficult language points. 2. Post- reading discussion If your friend is addicted to ( 对 …… 上瘾 ) the Internet, what do you want to say to him or her? Please discuss it with your seatmate and write a letter to him or her, telling him or her the disadvantages of the Internet.

Dear young ladies and gentlemen, Thank you so much for your attention and co-operation( 合作 ). Will you keep in touch with me after I go back to my city? Which way is the best for us?

Let’s keep in touch with each other via the Internet. Thank you and good-bye.