Unit 4 Lesson 2 Websites

Let’s enjoy a song: A Big Big World Listen to the song and try to fill in the blanks with the words you hear.

I’m a big big girl, in a big big _____. It’s not a big big _____ if you _____ me, But I do do feel that I do do will _____ you much, miss you much. I can see the first leaves _____. It’s all so yellow and nice; It’s so very cold ______ Like the way I’m feeling inside.

Before you start: What does www. stand for? Do you use the Internet? World Wide Web

Let’s read a passage. Student Times 11: B2: College Internet Users

Let’s make a prediction! Do you know anything about the history of the Internet? Ex 2.

Global Listening 1.What’s the listening text about? 2.What do we call this type of radio program? The Internet. An interview.

Tick the words you hear: Manchester University, Britain, Internet, military, America, Pentagon, communications, nuclear war, linking, network, share ideas, entertainment √ √√ √ √ √ √ √ √√

Intensive Listening: 1.Listen again more carefully and check your answers in Ex a b a b

2. Can you fill in the blanks with the words you hear? In ________, the Pentagon _____ ___________ communications after a nuclear war. And in 1969 they thought of _______ computers into a network. And then people in universities all over the world began to use the network to ___________. They use it for work and _______. the 1960swere worried about linking share ideas for fun

Discuss with your partner: 1. What worried the Pentagon in the 1960s? 2. What do people in universities use the network for? Questions :

Answers: 1. They were worried about communications after a nuclear war. 2. To share ideas.

Discuss with your partner: 1. What do you use the Internet for? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet? Practice:

Homework: Try to design a website in a group of four. Please hand it in next Monday.