Unit 3 Internet Cafés-中职《旅游英语》（天津大学出版社）（课件）

旅 游 英 语 Chapter 7 Leisure and Recreation Unit 1: Indoor Sports 室内运动   Unit 2: X-Games 极限运动   Unit 3: Internet Cafés网吧 Unit 3 Internet Cafés 网吧 Task 1 Lead-in Look at the following pictures and try to talk about them with your partner with the help of the word bank below. Match the words in Word Bank A with those in Word Bank B. Word Bank A Word Bank B 1. 酒吧 2. 网民 3. 无线的 4. 零食 5. 互联网 6. 网络 7. 费用 a. wireless b. Internet c. bar d. snack e. network f. fee g. Netizen Task 2 Reading Read the following passage and try to accomplish the exercises. A café, also spelled cafe, may in the United States mean an informal restaurant, offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches, while in most other countries it refers to an establishment which focuses on serving coffee, like an American coffeehouse. Origin of the term "café" is from French for coffee. An Internet café, cybercafé, Internet bar or cyber bar is a place which provides internet access to the public, usually for a fee. These businesses usually provide snacks and drinks, hence the café in the name. The fee for using a computer is usually charged as a time-based rate. Internet Café Internet cafés are located worldwide, and many people use them when traveling to access webmail and instant messaging services to keep in touch with family and friends.Apart from travelers, in many developing countries Internet cafés are the primary form of Internet access for citizens as a shared-access model is more affordable than personal ownership of equipment and/or software. Internet cafés come in a wide range of styles, reflecting their location, main clientele, and sometimes, the social agenda of the proprietors. In the early days they were important in projecting the image of the Internet as a ‘cool’ phenomena. There are also Internet kiosks, Internet access points in public places like public libraries, airport halls, sometimes just for brief use while standing. Many hotels, resorts, and cruise ships offer Internet access for the convenience of their guests. This can take various forms, such as in-room wireless access, or a web browser that uses the in-room television set for its display (usually in this case the hotel provides a wireless keyboard on the assumption that the guest will use it from the bed), or computers that guests can use, either in the lobby or in a business center. As with telephone service, in the US most mid-price hotels offer Internet access from a computer in the lobby to registered guests without charging an additional fee, while fancier hotels are more likely to charge for the use of a computer in their "business center." For those traveling by road in North America, many truck stops have Internet kiosks, for which a typical charge is around 20 cents per minute. establishment n. 公司；设施 hence adv. 因此；今后 time-based adj. 以时间为基础的 webmail n. 网页邮件 clientele n. 客户 kiosk n. 公用电话亭 resort n. 度假地 assumption n. 假设 truck stop n. 卡车司机餐馆 Exercises: 1. Please write down the different names of an Internet cafe. a. ________________________________________ b. ________________________________________ c. ________________________________________ d. ________________________________________ e. ________________________________________ f . ________________________________________ Choose the proper word or phrase in the box to fill in the blank in each of the following sentences, changing the form if necessary. a. Seminars, books and other self-help materials are useful and for any business rookie. b. This was more convenient for the guests and the hairdresser was able to serve a larger area and ____________ higher fees. c. Point their ____________ to our website and buy a pair of jeans on Internet. d. The town was built on the side of a hill; __________________ the name of Hillside. access hence affordable focus on agenda proprietor phenomenon convenience browser charge e. Many people choose distance learning for its __________________ and speed. f. The G20 had better put asset price bubbles and new growth strategies on its _________________. g. He said people should __________________ children around the world who are abused, suffering or forced into combat.. h. Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the___________: “big data”. i. Still, most natives remain illiterate, with little ________________ to clean water or to medicine. j. The _________________ of the newsstand was yelling at the driver and shaking a magazine at him. 3. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. a. The fee for using a computer is usually charged as a time-based rate. b. Internet cafés are located worldwide, and many people use them when traveling to access webmail and instant messaging services to keep in touch with family and friends. c. Internet cafés come in a wide range of styles, reflecting their location, main clientele, and sometimes, the social agenda of the proprietors. d. For those traveling by road in North America, many truck stops have Internet kiosks, for which a typical charge is around 20 cents per minute. Task 3 Listening Listen to the following report on 2010 Chinese Internet and fill in the blanks with missing information. The number of people using the Internet in China rose to 457 million at the end of 2010, up 73.3 million from a year earlier, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced recently. Chinese (1) ___________ spent about 18.3 hours online every week or 2.61 hours each day, the report said. The number of people (2) _____________ climbed the most compared to other online services, up 48.6 percent year on year, followed by people using (3) _____________ and (4) ___________________, up 48.2 percent and 45.8 percent respectively. Taobao.com, a Chinese-language website for (5) ___________________________founded by Alibaba Group, Task 3 Listening reported nearly 200 million registered members and more than 200 billion yuan (29.07 billion U.S. dollars) in turnover, creating at least 1 million (6) ____________________ related jobs. About 66.2 percent of Internet users, or 303 million, used mobile phones to surf the net, an increase of 5.4 percentage points from the previous year, the report said. Despite progress, China‘s Internet capability still faces challenges. The average (7) ____________________ last year was relatively slow: merely 100.9 KBps (kilobytes per second), the report said. The speed was about half of the global average of 212.5 KBps, according to figures from the U.S. network giant Akamai in early 2010. Despite harsher measures on (8) ______________________________, about 45.8 percent of Internet users encountered viruses or Trojans, while 21.8 percent of them fell victim to account break-ins and password theft. Task 3 Listening New Internet applications have become increasingly popular in China.(9) ______________________________ users mushroomed to 53.11 million, about 13.8 percent of China's total netizens at the end of last year, the report said. More Chinese are using (10) ______________________________ websites to enjoy bulk discounts. Group-buying websites in China emerged in January last year and have snowballed to about 1,800 now in operation. About 18.75 million or 4.1 percent of China's Internet surfers used group-buying websites, the report said. (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-01/19/c_13697983.htm) Task 4 Speaking Useful phrases, expressions and sentences used in receiving the guests at the Internet Cafe. How to receive guests? Guests’ response Welcome to Happy Bird Net Bar. Thank you. I need a computer to surf the Internet. Please show me your Passport Here you are. or ID Card How many cards would you like? Only one for me. The price for Video Section OK. I see. is RMB 3.5 yuan per hour, and the price for other sections is RMB 3 yuan. How to receive guests? Guests’ response Please get your PC card here and Fine, thank you. the deposit is 20 yuan and you need to pay the cost by hour. Please insert the card to the slot OK. That is great. and use the computer directly. Thank you. After your using, please shut off OK. I will. the computer from the Start menu. You have used the computer for That is right. 3 hours in Video Section. That is 10.5 yuan in total. You can take back 9.5 yuan from OK. Thank you. the deposit. Take your change and keep the receipt please. 2.Role-play. Act out the following dialogue. Zhang Li is receiving Mrs. Black, a guest from America, who wants to send an E-mail to her friend at the Internet Cafe near the hotel. Mrs. Black does not know how to use the Windows Operation System in Chinese language, and Zhang Li helps her. Task 5 Additional Tips for Internet Cafes 1. According to the "Survey of China Internet Café Industry" by the People's Republic of China Ministry of Culture in 2005, Mainland China has 110,000 Internet cafés, with more than 1,000,000 employees contributing 18.5 billion yuan to P.R. China's GDP. More than 70% of Internet café visitors are from 18 to 30 years old. 90% are male, 65% are unmarried, and 54% hold a university degree. More than 70% of visitors play computer games. 20% of China's Internet users go to Internet cafes. Task 5 Additional Tips for Internet Cafes 2. In Malaysia, most of the teenagers love to visit Internet cafes to enjoy their gaming time with friends. The Internet cafe in Malaysia also called as cybercafe,"Kafe Internet" in Malay and "网吧" in Chinese, some of the Internet cafe in Malaysia combine the characteristics of a F&B cafe and an Internet cafe. 3. In South Korea, Internet cafes are called PC bangs. They are ubiquitous in South Korean cities, numbering over 20,000. PC bangs mostly cater to online game playing for the younger generation. On average, use of a PC bang computer is priced at around 1,500 won per hour (about USD$1.30). 谢谢观看 $$