Transcript The Internet and Telecommunications

Period 2
Module 6
The Internet and Telecommunications
Reading
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and Vocabulary
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Pre-reading -1.Brainstorming(2m)
What is internet?
source of information
page of data
the world wide web
network
website
web traffic
web browser
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Pre-reading -2.Prediction(2m) Try to predict the answers
to the following questions.
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2.
3.
4.
What is the Internet?
How did it start?
What is the World Wide Web?
Who invented it?
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Fast reading -1.Checking(8m) Read the passage as fast as
possible. Check whether your prediction about the
questions are right or wrong.
ANSWER:
1. The internet is the biggest source of information
in the world, consisted of millions of pages of
date and it is accessible through the computer.
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2. In 1969, a US defence organisation created a
network of computers called DAPANET. It later
became NSFNET, which became known as the
Inter-Network or “Internet”.
3. The World Wide Web is a computer network that
allows computer users to access information from
millions of websites via the Internet.
4. It was invented by an English scientist, Tim
Berners-Lee.
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Detailed reading -1.Main idea(7m) Put the passage into
parts and use one or more words to describe each part.
Part 1 Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Part 2 Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4-6
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Internet
Development
The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
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Detailed reading – 2.Note taking(5m) Complete the form
below like the given example.
The Birth of Internet
time
name
1969 DARPAR
by
to
a US defense
organization
developed a way for...to...
through the telephone
1984 NSFNET
1989 Internet
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Detailed reading – 3.True or false(6m)
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There are millions of pages of information on
the Internet.
The US army were the first people who used
an Internet system.
University started using the Internet at the
same time as the army.
The percentage of websites in English is
getting smaller.
Tim Berners-Lee made it possible for only
scientists to use the Internet.
He has made a lot of money from his invention.
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Post reading – 1.Choosing(4m) Decide which sentence means the
same as the extracts from the reading passage. (Part 4 on Page 53)
answer
key words to get the answer
b
For…years, only…could…
a
allow…to
b
…percentage…going down
a
came up with the idea of
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Task(10m) Work with your partner. Complete the answer to the
question by filling in proper words in the passage.
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What’s WWW?
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which is a
It’s short _____
for the World Wide Web _____
thatallows computer users to
computer network _____
accessinformation from millions of websites
_______
via the Internet.
____
It’s like a highway of information, so there’s
traffic The percentage of it is
sometimes web ______.
going______.
down
_____
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Tim Berners-Lee
Tim is an English scientist _____
who invented the www.
using
_____ an old television, he built his first computer.
came
his____.
mind
In 1989, the idea of the invention ___
___to
____
possible
He made
______it___
_____ for the public to use the Internet.
The first web browser invented
________ by him _______
allowedpeople
to have access
______ to documents from the computers.
_____
From then _____,
on the web and the Internet grew.
The number of users _____
rose from 600,000 to 40
millionaires
created
million. Not among those _________
_______
by the Internet, he’s only a _________
lecturer working in
an institute.
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Homework
(Time permitted, it can be used as the task in class.)
Interview
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Tim Berners-Lee has recently come to
Shaoguan. Ask him questions about himself,
the www ,his family and his future.
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