Unit 4 Informatioan Technology Lesson 1 Avatars 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语北师大版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 Information Technology Lesson 1 Avatars 1 01 Lead-in U4L1 A cartoon character avatar A scenery avatar A cute animal avatar A selfie 第 页 2 01 Lead-in U4L1 第 页 3 Pre-reading U4L1 Activity 1 You’re going to read an article about avatars. What do you like to learn from it? Write down your questions in the diagram. 第 页 4 Read for the structure U4L1 Activity 2 Skim the passage quickly, and matching the main idea of each para and choose the text type. Part 1 Para.1.　　 A. Different views on avatars. Part 2 Para.2. B. Purposes of using avatars. Part 3 Para.3-5. C. Definition of “avatar”. Part 4 Para.6. D. History about avatars. What is the type of the text? A. An expository essay （说明文） B. A narrative essay（记叙文） C. An argumentative （议论文） 第 页 5 Read for details U4L1 Activity 3 Read the article carefully and complete the table in Ex.4 on P10. Avatars Details Definition (para1) A digital image that represents an Internet user. History (Para2) 1980s Late 1990s Purpose of using avatars (Para3-Para.5) To express oneself To represent oneself Views (Para. 6) Negative Positive 第 页 6 Read the first two paragraphs and complete the information form. Pay attention to the key words. 7 Digital identities Avatars Information Definition Digital identities used to communicate and express yourselves. History In the 1980s The first simple 2D avatars appeared in role-playing computer games, By the late 1990s Avatars had been used in web chats like instant messenger. Check the answers 8 When you are online, you can be anyone or anything. You can create your own image and a new personality. These digital identities, known as avatars, are a key part of how people use the Internet to communicate and express themselves. The first simple 2D avatars appeared in role-playing computer games in the 1980s. Yet, very few people knew that future avatars would have such a wide variety o