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The Internet
Reading and Thinking
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ----Bill Gates
因特网正成为明日地球村的闹市广场。
---- 比尔 . 盖茨
Do you know some vocabularies about the Internet?
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Lead in
How has the Internet changed your life ?
have class online
shop online
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Lead in
How has the Internet changed your life ?
play computer games
look up information
The internet is already closely related to our daily lives
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Pre-reading
Before you read, look at the title and discuss these questions in pairs.
1.What do you think the text will say?
2.How do you think the writer feels about the topic?
1.We have been changed a lot by the Internet and it has brought us together.
2.Positive; optimistic.
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Fast Reading
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Find main idea of each paragraph
People’s lives have been changed.
The Internet helped Jan deal with her illness.
Jan used the Internet to help the old.
Jan used the Internet to make society better.
Jan’s life has been greatly improved by the Internet.
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Fast Reading
What’s the relationship between the five paragraphs?
para 1
para 2
para 3
para 4
para 5
Introduction
Examples
Conclusion
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While Reading
Read the text and answer the question.
1.Why did Jan quit her job?
2.How did the people in the online community help her?
3.Why did she start the IT club?
She suddenly developed a serious illness.
People in the online community talked with her about
her problems, supported her, and gave her advice.
To teach older people how to use computers and
the Internet.
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While Reading
Read the text and answer the question.
4.What is the “digital divide”?
5.What’s Jan’s next goal?
The digital divide is the gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who haven’t, and those who know how to use new technology and those who don’t.
Her next goal is to start a charity website
to raise money for children in poor countries.
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While Reading
List the ways in which t