Unit 4 Information Technology Lesson 1 Avatars 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语北师大版必修第二册

Unit4 Information Technology Lesson1 Avatars Learning Objectives After this class, I will be able to: 1. talk about avatars I use and what they say about me; 2. read and find the structure of this article; 3. read and write down the specific information based on the diagram; 4. discuss the questions and share my understanding about avatars to my partners. account password Avatars a picture of a person or an animal which represents a person, on a computer screen, especially in a computer game or chat room Warming-up What kind of avatar do you use online? Why? a cute animal avatar an avatar in fancy clothes a cartoon character avatar to express myself freely to trick others to create a real/digital identity to avoid online risks to protect myself I use a cartoon character avatar instead of a photo to protect myself online. Pre-reading You are going to read an article about avatars. What would you like to learn from it? Write down your questions in the diagram. Avatars Definition History Views Uses Design Meaning ... Introduction / definition History / development Uses / purposes of avatars Different views While-reading Read the passage in 10’ ，and pick out the right blocks that the passage refers to. Different colours Different shapes General introduction Read para1 and answer A digital identity that you use to represent yourself online. 1.What is an avatar? 2.why we use them? 3.what is the definition of the avatar? Read for development Read para2 and answer how have avatars developed over decades? A. They were used in web chats by the late 1980s. B. They appeared in computer games in the 1990s. C. There have been avatars since computers appeared. D. From computer games to online chat. D History: in the 1980s — appeared in ___________ computer games. by the late 1990s — used in _____ ______. role-playing web chats Read para3 and answer the questions 1. When people started creating their own avatars, what did they discover?And what could they do? 2.When users found that their avatars would be seen by many people what did they do? 3. Why did people have so many different avatars? Read para4 and answer the questions a picture of a cute cat → I like _______ and ________ Well-known cartoon characters or laughing monkeys→I am really___ How do people creat avatars? Read para5 and answer the questions What can users do by using avatars？ Careful-reading Avatars Details Purposes of using avatars (Paras.3-5) Express People discovered they were going to have the ______ to create new ______. Avatars give people lots of room for _______. Represent The avatar you choose says a lot about your ___________. power identities creativity personality 12 Read for views 6 spend too much time in virtual worlds VS be afraid of meeting people in the real world a risk of being cheated Avatars will act like a real person and travel around bigger, more exciting virtual worlds. Positive Negative Read for structure! Introduction / definition Part1 Para1 Part2 Para2 Avatars History /development Uses / purposes of avatars Different views Part4 Para6 Part3 Paras3-5 What is the type of the text? A. An expository essay （说明文） B. A descriptive essay C. A narrative essay D. An argumentative （议论文） What's attitude of the author in the article? A. subjective B. indifferent(漠不关心的) C. neutral （中立的） D. uninteresting 第 页 15 Group Discussion What’s your view towards the use of avatars? On the one hand, the online world equips us the opportunity to express and represent ourselves freely. On the other hand, we should mind our behavior in the online world and be a qualified citizen. THANK YOU! $