Unit 2 Looking into the Future Using Language Writing课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

“Passenger Dies When Car Crashes in Driverless Mode” A driverless car is an automobile that has an autopilot system allowing it to safely move from one place to another without help from a human driver. Think and Share Should we welcome or reject future changes? 2023/8/14 1 Read and Find out What is the passage mainly about? The advantages and disadvantages of new technology and the author’s own opinion. In which paragraphs does the author: describe the issue? give an opinion? discuss the advantages? discuss the disadvantages? 2023/8/14 2 The author describes the issue … “Passenger Dies When Car Crashes in Driverless Mode”. … various people said that the public should oppose the idea of developing driverless cars. … the company still claimed that most people would be travelling in driverless cars one day soon. Read and Find out Introduction: an accident of a driverless car The author describes the issue in Paragraph 1. The author discusses the disadvantages On the one hand, there are many different groups of people around the world who live happily in the absence of new technology. Probably the most well known are the Amish … They do not own or drive cars, watch TV, or use the Internet... They advocate a simple life … Read and Find out Point 1: people living a simple life and not using new technology The author discusses the disadvantages in Paragraph 2. The author discusses the advantages On the other hand, new technology has provided people everywhere with many benefits over the years. For example, the latest weather-tracking computer programmes … Moreover, the Internet has made it possible for friends and family to keep in touch easily... It has also made finding opportunities in life much easier… Read and Find out Point 2: people enjoying the life of new technology The author discusses the advantages in Paragraph 3. The author gives an opinion Personally, I have benefited quite a lot from technological advances.