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Unit 4 Information Technology
Topic Talk
【学习目标】
1．能够通过听获取说话人上网和使用多种应用程序的原因；
2．能够口笔头谈论信息技术的应用和影响；
3．能够合理、完整、全面地评价信息技术的发展。
【学习重难点】
谈论信息技术的应用和影响，评价信息技术的发展。
【学习过程】
Activity 1: Use the questions to talk about information technology.
1. In what way do you use it?
2. Why do you use it?
3. How has it changed people’s daily lives?
Activity 2: Read the Text Builder carefully. Then listen to the dialogue and complete it by underlining the words or expressions you hear.
Text Builder
| Talking about IT
| a. I love exploring new technologies, because they _____________________.
| Reasons
| b. I use apps to ___________________.
| Uses
| c. I also like chatting online. It ________________. But too much chatting online__________________.
| Effects/Impacts
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Activity 3: Interview your partner.
Uses: In what way do you use it? If your partner mentions the point, tick it.
| □ chat with …
□ communicate with/by …
□ relax by …
□ buy things such as …
□ find information about …
□ learn about new things like …
□ …
| Reasons: Why do you use it? If you partner mentions the point, tick it.
| □ so convenient
□ make life easier
□ enable better communication
□ provide education
□ provide information
□ …
| Effects/Impacts: Match 1–9 with a–i, then interview your partner, and tick the point if he/she agrees.
| □1. makes communication
□2. makes me feel
□3. helps me develop
□4. makes us self
□5. enables people
□6. makes us live in an
□7. takes a lot of
□8. makes us addicted
□9. doesn’t encourage face-to-face
| a. new friendships
b. focused
c. communication
d. convenient
e. time
f. unreal world
g. less lonely
h. to it
i. to communicate better
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Activity 4: Listen to Dialogue 2 and take notes in the table.
Apps
| Reasons for use
| 1. Music apps
| I listen to songs when ___________________________.
They really help me ____________________.
| 2. News apps
| ___________ with the news all day long.
| 3. Apps for _________
| I use different avatars … because they let me explore__________.
| 4. _______________
| _________________________________________.
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Activity 5:Use the Text Builder to write a short paragraph about information technology.
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Activity 6:Talk about the app you would like to recommend or you would like to develop.
apps to recommend:
_____________________
| because
_____________________
| apps to develop:
_____________________
| because
_____________________
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Activity 7: Read the quotes and work in groups.
Student A
1. Which is the Third Industrial Revolution according to the quote by Klaus Martin Schwab?
2. Which of the four quotes is your favorite?
3. Write your sentence about information technology.
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| Student B
1. With the help of the note below, share your understanding of the quote by Bill Gates. (Note: town square 城镇广场
Example: Some people want to live on the town square, so they don’t miss a thing.)
2. Which of the four quotes is your favorite?
3. Write your sentence about information technology.
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| Student C
1. Do you agree with what Alan Kay says? Give an example.
2. Which of the four quotes is your favorite?
3. Write your sentence about information technology.
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| Student D
1. Does the Internet connect us?
2. Why do we face the screen of computers or cell phones while sitting together, which is called “alone together”?
(Note: neuron: a cell that carries information within the brain and between the brain and other parts of the body; a nerve cell神经元)
3. Write your sentence about information technology.
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