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Unit 8 An Interactive Life

Teaching Points • I. Background information • II. Introduction to the passage • III. Text analysis • IV. Rhetorical devices • V. Questions for discussion

I. Background Information • 1. Broadway • 2. Peter Jennings • 3. Newsweek

II. Introduction to the Passage • 1. Type of literature: • -- a piece of exposition

Introduction to the Passage • 2. The purpose of a piece of exposition: to inform of explain • 3. Ways of developing the thesis of a piece of exposition: • --comparison, contrast, analogy, identification, illustration, analysis, definition, etc.

Introduction to the Passage • 4. The central thought or thesis

III . Effective Writing Skills • 1. making effective use of specific verbs • 2. using elliptical and short, simple sentences to achieve certain effect

IV . Rhetorical Devices • 1. metaphor • 2. simile

V. Text Analysis

VI . Special Difficulties • 1. Paraphrasing some sentences • 2. Some computer terms

VII . Questionsfor Discussion • 1. What will an interactive life of the future be like? Describe some of its possible features. • 2. Why should a person step into the past to get an idea of what the future might bring? • 3. How would Peter Jennings become obsolete? • 4. What is called “fake interactive”? • 5. Why would video telephony mean an end of anonymous phone calls?

VIII. Exercises • P.

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