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Unit 4 Information Technology
Topic Talk
Information Technology信息技术
·Electronic processes for gathering (采集),
storing(分类)and transmitting(传输)
information using computers and software.
What is IT?
Take
pictures
Face
recognition
Fingerprint
lock
Examples
for
gathering (采集)
information
Baidu
Cloud
Chip
Database
Examples
for storing
(分类)
information
WeChat
TikTok
Email
Examples for
transmitting (传输)
information
Activity 1
What aspects can we talk about information technology?
How has it changed people's daily life?
In what way do you use it?
Why do you
use it?
information
technology
1. What app do you often use? In what way do you use it?
· WeChat
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·Communicate v.交流
buy things
● find information
I use this app to
·Chat
online.
v.聊天
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2.Why do you use it?
I love exploring new technologies,becaus
they__ _
·are so convenient adj.方便的
make life easier
v.使能够
enable better communication
· Provide v.提供
convenience/education/information
3.How has it changed people's daily life?
It .However,it
helps me develop new friends
enables people to communicate better
makes us self-focused adj.以自我为中心的
makes us live in an unreal world
takes a lot of time adj. 不真实的
does not encourage face-to-face communication
·makes communication convenientadj.方便的
advantages ·makes me feel less lonely adj.孤单的
disadvantages
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Text Builder Talk about IT
I love exploring new technologies,because they
are so convenient Beasons
l use apps to_buy things online. Uses
I also like chatting online.It makes me feel less lonely Well,too much chatting online takes a lot of time.
Effects/ Impacts
Listen to Dialogue 1.Complete the Text Builder.
Activity 2
There are lots of interesting and useful apps on my phone.
http://www.100875.com.cn
· to book tickets
● to book accommodation
● to order food
● to find directions
to learn a language
● to check the weather
to look for popular
restaurants
to subscribe to newspapers
and magazines
I often use
apps...
·
·
·
□Work app
☑Apps for news
☑Apps for the games
☑Alarm clock
Listen to Dialogue 2.Tick the apps they mentioned.
☑Music app
·I listen to songs when I can't sleep or
feel nervous.
A bell rings to remind me that my time is
up.
·It really helps me relax.
·Get updated with the news all day long.
·Iuse different avatars...because they let me explore different personalities.
Music app
Apps for news
Apps for the games Alarm clock
Listen to Dialogue 2.Match the reasons for use.
Apps Reasons for use
Music app I listen to songs when I can't sleep or feel nervous.
It really helps me relax
Apps for the
newS Get updated with the news all day long.
Apps for the
games I use different avatars ...because they let me explore
different personalities .
Alarm clock A bell rings to remind me that my time is up
Activity 3
Retell the table.
Quote... Unquote
The First Industrial Revolution used water and
steam power to mechanise prod he Second
n.蒸汽 机械生产
automate production.
v. ( 使 ) 自 动 化
——Klaus Martin Schwab
克劳斯 ·施瓦布
uction
工业革
used electric power to create mass production.The
adj.电的 大规模生产
Third used electronics and information technology to
n.电子学
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
——Alan Kay
艾伦凯
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global
village of tomorrow. n.广场
Bill Gates
1983
1993
1995
2009
20
比尔盖茨
We are all now connected by the Internet,
like neurons in a gaint brain.
— —Stephen Hawking
斯蒂芬 ·威廉 ·霍金
App recommendation
Your friend Mike will come to China and study in Beijing for three months.He wants to install some useful apps and asks you to recommend some. Which apps will you recommend to him and why?
Example:
You can install an app called Wechat. Because you can use it to communicate with others conveniently. You can also install… … . Because ……
Homework
1.Memorize the words of topic talk ; 2.预习Lesson 1.
3.准备一个英语听写本,一个英语作业本
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