Unit 2 Net Changes Life (1)

1. Unit 2Net Changes Life (1)

2. Part I Warming up Section A: Email History Pre-listening questions: 1. What way or ways do you use most to communicate with your families or friends? 2. Do you know when people began to use email?

3. UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles promptly: immediately crash: (of a computer system): to suffer a sudden major failure usually with attendant loss of data

4. Elizabeth II, Born 1926. • Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (since 1952) who ascended to the throne on the death of her father, George VI.

5. Queen Elizabeth II

6. Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States (1924- ) Jimmy Carter:

7. campaign: • a connected series of operations designed to bring about a particular result • election campaign • coordinate: • to make various different things work effectively as a whole协调,调节,使调和 • If we coordinate our efforts we should be able to win the game. • 如果我们同心协力,我们应该能够打赢这场比赛。

8. A state of the northeast United States. Augusta is the capital Portland the largest city. Population: 1,233,223 Maine 缅因州

9. hoax: • a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick: • The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax. • 骗局;玩笑;恶作剧 • hard drive: • 【电脑】硬盘驱动器 • processor: • 【电脑】信息处理器;处理程序

10. Key to Ex. A October 1969 • Great Dates in Email History • 1)____________ • Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor, sends the _________________ to a colleague at Stanford. The computer promptly crashes. first email message

11. March 1972 • 2) ________________ • Ray Tomlison, author of the first email software, chooses the “@” for _______: “I got there first, so I got to choose any punctuation I wanted”. addresses

12. February 1976 • 3) _____________ • Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first __________ to send an email message. head of state

13. Fall 1976 • 4) ___________ • ___________ and Walter Mondale use email every day during their campaign to coordinate their travel schedules. A single message costs _________ to send. Jimmy Carter • US＄4

14. September 1983 • 5) ______________ • Colby College in Waterville, Maine, becomes one of the first institutions of ____________ to assign email _______ to all its students. higher education accounts

15. December 1994 • 6) ____________ • A widely circulated email hoax appears, warning that reading an email entitled “Good Times” will _____ your hard drive and ______ your processor. erase destroy

16. December 1998 • 7) ___________ • In the movie You’ve Got Mail, a celebration of email romance, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks recreate The Shop Around the Corner online. The original movie, The Shop Around the Corner, was shown in 1937.

17. Section B Abbreviations Used in Email • Pre-listening: • What abbreviations do you use when you write email messages or when you are chatting online? • U for you • 88 for bye bye

18. (information) superhighway: • The global information and communications network that includes __________and ____________and ______________such as,______________, _______________ and _____________________. the Internet other networks switching systems cable television networks telephone networks satellite communication networks

19. shorthand • 速写 • abbreviation • 缩写 • zoom • 放大 • decode • 解码

20. standby • n. a thing that is kept ready to be used • 备用 • make the rounds: • to be communicated or passed from person to person: • The news quickly made the rounds.

21. as I see it • Key to Section B: • AISI ____________________ • IMHO in my humble opinion • FWIW for what it is worth • CMIIW correct me ______________ • AAMOF ______________________ • BION ______________________ if I’m wrong as a matter of fact believe it or not

22. information own business • FYI for your ____________ • MYOB mind your _____________ • SOP ________ operating procedure • TAFN that’s all for now • BCNU ___________________ standard be seein’you

23. Section C: WWW • World Wide Web: • A major service on the Internet. • The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol<超文件传输协定>, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system. • 万维网 • primitive: • 原始的;早期的

24. Tim Berners-Lee In the 1980s • Listen to the following statements and answer the questions: • 1. Who? ___________________ • 2. When? ___________________ • 3. When? ___________________ • 4. Where? ___________________ • 5. How many? _________________ • 6. What? __________________ • 7. To whom? _______________________________ In 1990 On to the Internet 100,000 E-commerce People with imagination and new ideas

25. Part 2 Network • PRE-LISTENING • Words are given different meanings at different times. The same is true with the word “network”. • Can anyone tell different meanings of “network” at different times? • an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system • <a network of hotels> • a system of computers, terminals, and databases connected by communications lines • a group of radio or television stations linked by wire or radio relay

26. connection: • n.连接 • broadcasting : • n.广播 • relation : • n.关系, 联系, • costly : • expensive

27. Key to A:Supply the explanation for the word: • Network + Net Work Materials that are _______ A_______ system connected A __________of system that ___________ connection work together stations Radio and TV________, computers, __________ people

28. connection of railroads or other vehicles • Ex. B : Listen & focus on the original use and modern use of the word “network”. • In the late 1800s • Meaning: ________________________ • Example: Complete areas are networked by trolley cars. In 1914 Meaning: ________________________ Modern uses: Meaning 1: ___________________________________ connected system of radio stations system linking a number of computers together

29. Part 3 Online Shopping • Training focus: selecting information & figures • Section A: Statements about Online shopping • 1. Industry experts say American businesses should have about _________________ in sales during _________________. That would be ___ higher than the same period last year. 184,000 million dollars November & December 6%

30. 2.The experts say that sales over the computer Internet system could reach ___________________. • 3. ____ of people who use the Internet say they expect to buy at least _______ there. • 4. Experts say that about ____ of the _________ Internet users are women. 12,000 million dollars 63% some gifts 50% 100 million

31. Section B: The Report about Online Shopping • Pre-listening: • Where do you usually go to buy things? • Have you ever done any online shopping? • What do you think of it? Why?

32. category • n.种类, 目录 • click • to strike with a slight short sound • ban : • to forbid • Swimming is banned in this lake. • 这个湖里不准游泳。

33. Missouri 密苏里州 • a mid-western state in central United States • It was admitted as the 24th state in 1821. • Jefferson City is the capital • and St. Louis the largest city. • Population: 5,137,804. 密苏里

34. visiting stores Key to Ex. B • How do people usually buy gifts? a. ______________ b. _____________________________ c. _____________________ 2. Why do women greatly enjoy the shopping on the Internet? They needn’t: a. _______________ b. ___________ c. _______________ ordering goods by phone from catalogues shopping on the Internet put children in the car walk around for hours drive to the store

35. clicking the mouse device on a gift shown on screen providing credit card number 3. Can you list the steps for people to buy gifts on the Internet? • _______________________________ • _______________________________ • _______________________________ 4. What do some of the businesses not on the Internet do to increase competition? • _______________________________ • _____________________________ • __________________________________________________ receiving the gift in the mail a few days later offering things not possible to get on the Internet holding special classes for children offering money to people who buy goods using the store credit card

36. Part 4Short talks on listening skills • Key to Part 4 Don’t Attempt to Write Too Much Note-taking is a very ________ skill. But it is _______ in listening. It helps us ________ facts and retain concepts for later use. Taking good notes requires us to do ___ things quickly. First, to recognize the __________; and second, to write down the _____________ and supporting examples as we hear and understand. In other words, our note-taking should ___________ the speaker’s thinking process. complex essential organize two main topics important details keep pace with

37. reduce shortening The general principle for note-taking is to _____ thelanguage by ________ the words and sentences that we hear. It is important to remember that we should ___ attempt to write too ____. That is to say, we should learn to write the _______ to give sufficient meaning. And we should also learn to choose _______________to write the notes quickly and lay them out_______. Some commonly used Latin __________ are often very ______ in note-taking. For example, cf.—compare or compare with; I.e.—that is; e.g.—for example; and etc.—et cetera, and so on. not much minimum an appropriate time clearly abbreviations useful

38. dialogues One way to take notes of _________ or conversations is to write down different speakers’ works in ________ spaces, such as separate _______ or lines. This will help us ______ each speaker’s views and opinions correctly. Of course, not-taking is a highly ________ skill. So we should make constant efforts to develop good ways of note-taking which are most ________ and suitable to _________. separate columns sum up personal effective ourselves