文档介绍：World Wide Web: What’s Hot and What’s Not?
Unit 9
Purposes
1. To get students make full and good use puters.
2. To understand the purpose of writing.
3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
Some sentences and structures about this topic
I type my papers/ coursework/ use spreadsheets to solve problems/make tables and graphs/access the .
puter will suddenly crash/freeze/catch a virus.
The mouse doesn’t work properly.
The cursor on the screen doesn’t move.
The is a work puters, all linked together by telephone lines.
I’ve set up my account/have puter with access/can access the on puters.
You can chat/engage in active discussion with friends, relatives, or strangers on topics of shared interests/make friends/download software/do shopping on .
Life online is very informative/attractive/colorful.
Students can widen their knowledge of the world through the .
The does wonderful things but accessing it can be quite expensive for a student.
Spending too much time on the may keep students away from their schoolwork/cause some students to skip classes, hinder students from learning proper social skills.
Additional vocabulary
Virtual reality(虚拟现实)
Laptop(手提电脑)/puter(台式电脑)
Word processor(文字处理器)
hard drive(硬盘驱动器)
flop disk (软盘) cyberspace(网络空间)
terminal(终端)
information highway
to attach a file to the e-mail
to keep up-to-date
portable
track down download
听力补充:听说教程二册P254-255
About the text
1. What is this text about?
2. What is hot according to the text?
3. Why is it said that the text is effectively entitled?
Structural analysis of the text
Main idea of each part:
Part One 1 --- epitomizing the benefit of the World Wide Web
Part Two (2-8) --- illustrating and exemplifying the strong points and weak points of the and the Web
Part Three 9 --- the writer is anxious to make fuller use of puter for the sake of his own benefit.
some difficult sentences, words or phrases
1. I was having a challenging problem with