Unit 10 Connections Lesson 1 How Closely Connected Are We? 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Unit 10 Lesson 1 How Closely Connected Are We? 1 Learning goals: At the end of the this period, students will be able to: 1.understand and describe what the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory is; 2.acquire and generalize the information about the development of the theory; 3.talk about the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory. Step 1: Lead-in 1. Who is your idol (偶像)? 2. Do you want to contact with her/him? Theory: Six Degrees of Separation We are closer to the rest of the world than we think ! When： Who： Six Degrees of Separation What： In the 1920s which means any person on Earth can be connected to any other person thorough a chain of no more than five other people. Read the first two paragraphs: What does “Six Degrees of Separation” theory mean? When was the concept first talked about? Who introduced the theory? Frigyes Karinthy Do you believe Six Degrees of Separation ? 标题字号固定为黑体 34 加粗 白色，副标题字号固定为黑体 28 黑色，正文字号为黑体 24 黑色。版式仅供参考 5 “Six Degrees of Separation”. Six Degrees of Separation 六度分隔，又称为“小世界现象”。大意是说，任何两个素不相识的人中间最多只隔着六层关联，即只需要不超过五个人就可以将两个陌生人联系在一起。 Frigyes Karinthy 匈牙利佐加弗里吉斯·考林蒂（1887-1938）。他的短篇故事《链条》（Chains）中的角色认为至多需要五个人（在认识其中一人的情况下），仅通过人际关系，他就可以联系到自己想找的人。因此，一些学者认为考林蒂是最早发现六度分隔现象的人。他的观点对最早期社交网络的构想产生了一定影响。 The founders—Frigyes Karinthy How- He chose a random sample of people in the middle of America and asked them to _________________to a stranger in the state of Massachusetts. Who- ______________ In 1967 Findings/Results- It only took between ______________people to get the parcels delivered. send packages five and seven Examples to prove the theory Line21: “small-world problem” Task 2: Careful-reading Stanley Milgram 标题字号固定为黑体 34 加粗 白色，副标题字号固定为黑体 28 黑色，正文字号为黑体 24 黑色。版式仅供参考 8 Learn some background information about the theory “Six Degrees of Separation”. Stanley Milgram 斯坦利·米尔格兰姆（1933-1984），美国社会心理学家。1967年，他根据“六度分隔”进行了一次名为“小世界”的连锁信实验，该实验发现一封信函平均经受五位陌生人即可到达目标收件人手中。该实验结果于1967年发表。 How- They _________ a game, the idea of which was to link any actor