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Unit3 Computers
Warming up
Heavy!
Difficult!
Hard!
Tired!
1. Easy!
2. Fast!
3. Free!
CPU
hard disc
CD / DVD-ROM CRT monitor
chips
/motherboard
LCD monitor
keyboard
scanner
mouse
printer
modem
speaker
floppy disc
CD/DVD/VCD
USB flash disc
MP3 player
Label each part
1
2
3
6
5
1. monitor 2. screen
4. mouse
5. keyboard
4
3. CD-ROM
6. hard disk
Match the words with their meanings.
1 A monitor is
2 The screen is
3 A keyboard is
4 A mouse is
5 A CD-ROM is
6 A hard disk is
(a) the part of a computer that
stores information.
(b) the part of the computer that
you type on.
(c) the part of the computer that
looks like a television
(d) something you use to click on
things (files, etc.).
(e) the part of the monitor that you
look at.
(f) The main device that a computer
uses to store information.
Look at these pictures. Discuss
what they have in common.
Predict what it is going to be about.
What’s next?
Discussion
(What do they have in common?)
1.They can be used
 I think that…
for calculating.
 In my opinion…
2.They can deal with
 I believe that…
maths problems.
 What’s your
3.They are our friends.
reason?
4.They are useful and
 Why do you
helpful.
think so?
Internet
How useful computers are!
school work
games
emails
music and
films
chat
information
photos
shopping
Ask and answer questions in pairs.
How do you use computers and the Internet?
1. use computer for school work You Your partner
2. play games on the computer
3. send emails to friends
4. surf the Web for fun
5. download music and films
6. chat online
7. search for information
8. look at photographs
9. do shopping online
Write out all the words you know about
computers.
update
Internet
computer
keyboard
click
Reading
Who Am I?
Warming up
Predict what it is going to be about.
Pre-reading
questions
What have computers changed our
life?
2. What changes will they bring to us
in the future?
1.
Task 1 Skimming
1. Who is the speaker in this story?
A computer.
2. Write down three sentences from
the story to support your idea.
1) I was built as an Analytical
machine by Charles Babbage.
2) My real father, Alan Turing, …
3) I was always lonely standing there by
myself, until in early 1960s they gave
me a family connected by a network.
Task 2 Fast reading
1. Where were you in 1642?
In France.
2. What happened to you after nearly
two hundred years?
I was built as an Analytical Machine
by Babbage.
3. What were you called in 1936?
A universal machine.
4. What happened to you in the 1970s?
I have been used in offices and homes.
Task 3 Careful reading
1642 The computer began as a
calculating machine．
1822 The analytical machine was
made by Charles Babbage.
1936 The computer grew rapidly both
in size and in brainpower.
1940 Computers had grown as large as
a room.
s
The first family of computers
1960s
was connected to each other.
1970 Computers were used in offices
s
and homes.
now Computers connect people all
over the world together.
Task 4 Fill in the blanks.
1
2
3
4
totally
revolution
simplify
calculate
5 mobile
6
solve
completely
complete change
to make things easier
to find the answer
using numbers
can be moved easily
from place to place
to work out the
answer to a problem
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8
9
1
0
explore
totally
anyhow
finance
to travel around an
area to find out about
it
completely
anyway
activity of managing
money
The history of
computers
The first generation
(1945-1956)
the fourth generation
(1971- )
the second generation
(1956-1963)
the third generation
(1964-1971)
1. What is PC? Speak the name on the
whole.
It means: personal computer.
2. What is IT?
Information Technology.
3. What is CD-ROM?
Compact disc read-only memory.
4. What is PDA?
Personal digital assistant.
5. What is W.W.W?
World wide web.
6. 科学技术。
Science and technology.
7. 人工智能。
Artificial intelligence.
8.笔记本电脑。
Notebook computer.
9. Who was the first person to devise the
first computer?
Charles Babbage invented an
Analytical machine in 1822.
10. Who was the computers’ real father?
Alan Turing.
Reading task on Page 58
Read the passage and then fill in the chart.
RECORD CARD
HUA FEI
Expert at high flying exercises:
Ability
Olympic standard
Performance in Wonderful turns, dives, circles
78th Olympics and dances
Silver medal for high flying
Prize won
exercises
Performance in Began very well but failed
79th Olympics through no fault of his own
Reason for
Parachute failed to open.
failure
Two new legs and a new bigger head
Treatment
Language points
1. in common: for or by all of a group
共同的；共有的；共用的
the land owned in common by the
residents 居民共有的土地
in common 常常同have连用，如：
have nothing in common 无共同之处
have little in common 几乎无共同之处
have something in common 有一些共同之处
have a lot in common 有许多共同之处
以下是从英国国家语料库中选出来的几个例句:
1) You know, Dorothy, you and I have one
thing in common．
2) We just had nothing in common and I
couldn't communicate with his dull
business friends．
3) I suddenly felt we had a lot in common.
2. calculate v. work (sth.) out by using
numbers
e.g. calculate the cost of sth.
calculator n.
让我们一起回忆一下以or结尾的词吧：
visitor, survivor, competitor
3. analytical adj.分析的, 解析
的
analyse vt. 分析;研究
analogy n. 相似;类似
analysis n. 分析;研究
analyst n. 分析家
analytic adj. 分析的;分解的
4. artificial adj. 人工的,人造的
artificial flowers/limbs/pearls
假花/假肢/假珍珠
artificial intelligence 人工智能
5. totally adv. 整个地;完全地
totally blind 全盲
total adj. 完全的; 整个的
total silence 寂静无声
in total 总共
6. And my memory became so large that
even I couldn’t believe it!
句型：so… that…
如此……以致于……
与 too…to… 句型的相互转换
And my memory became too large for me
to believe it.
eg He is so old that he can’t carry the box.
He is too old to carry the box.
此结构中的that从句表示结果。
The stone is so heavy that no one can
lift it.
比较:
so that 既可以表结果,也可以表目的。
so...that...结构的so+形容词/副词位于句
首时,句子用倒装结构。
So hard does he work that he seldom
goes home.
7. I have also been put into robots and
used to make mobile phones as well as
help with medical operations.
1) help (sb) with sth 协助(某人)做某事
e.g. A man is helping the police with their
enquiries.
有一男子在协助警方进行调查。
2) as well as 也，还，而且
e.g. He grows flowers as well as vegetables.
She is a talented musician as well as
being a photographer.
3) 这个句子是现在完成时被动语态，其机
构是 (have/has +been + 过去分词）
e.g. The radio has been repaired when
we phoned the shop.
8. anyhow 无论如何
Anyhow, you can try.
无论如何你可以试试。
I don’t care what you say; I’m
going to do it anyhow.
比较: somehow 意为“以某种方式;
不知 怎么地”
Homework
1.
Finish the Ex1 and Ex2 in
Learning about Language on
page20.
2. Preview the Reading at Page 18, find out
Language points and difficulties.
3. Do Section One.
Homework
Look up the words below:
in common, as a result, anyhow,
so...that, in a way, watch over.