Unit4 Living with technology Extended reading 课件- 2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版选择性必修第二册

B5 U4 Extended reading Virtual Reality Step1 Warming up 1. What can we call the technology? Virtual Reality/ VR Step2 Lead-in What is the genre of the text? Susan: an editor Frank: an expert in VR an interview Prediction What will they talk about? virtual reality: definition functions applications challenges barriers its future development ...... Step3 Fast reading Read the interview transcript and fill in the following mind map. Susan's questions Question1:____________________________________ Question2:____________________________________ Question3:____________________________________ Question4:____________________________________ Question5:____________________________________ Question6:____________________________________ What is virtual reality and how does it work? What are the examples of the practical applications of VR? How can VR be used for highly developed technical industries such as medicine? How will VR affect the different aspects of our everyday lives? What barriers does VR have? Are you optimistic about the future of VR? Virtual reality What VR is How it works Applications Barriers Future What questions are asked in this transcript? What is virtual reality and how does it work?（L2） What are the examples of the practical applications of VR?（L10） What barries does VR have?（L43） Are you optimistic about the future of VR?（L52） How can VR be used for highly developed technical industries such as medicine?（L22） How will VR affect the different aspects of our everyday lives? （L31-32） Step4 Careful reading Read Line1-Line9 and answer the following questions. 1. What's virtual reality? 2. How does it work? Basically, VR, or virtual reality, means “reality is not real”. When you wear a VR headset equipped with sensors and a screen, you are surrounded by three-D images, sounds and other sensory information, which creates a super-realistic effect called “presence”. Though you know the sensory information surrounding you is not real, part of your brain