新世纪英语专业综合教程(第二版)第4册Unit3.ppt

1、ALIENATION AND THE INTERNETUnit 3Unit 3ALIENATION AND THE INTERNETUnit 3Unit3Watch the video and answer the following questions.1.According to Mark,why did people come to the Facemash in a stampede?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationIt wasnt beca

2、use they saw pictures of hot girls,but because they saw pictures of girls they knew.For one thing,there was nothing to hack.People would provide their own pictures,their own information,and people had the ability to invite,or not invite,their friends to join.In addition,in a world where social struc

3、ture was everything,that was the thing.2.According to Eduardo,what was so great about the idea?Pre-reading Activities-Audiovisual supplement 2Audiovisual supplementCultural informationFrom Youve Got MailMark:Eduardo:Mark:Eduardo:Mark:People came to the Facemash in a stampede,right?Yeah.But it wasnt

4、because they saw pictures of hot girls.You can go anywhere on the Internet and see pictures of hot girls.Yeah.Thats because they saw pictures of girls they knew.People want to go on the Internet and check out their friends,so why not build a website that offers that?Friends,pictures,profiles,whateve

5、r you can visit,browse around.Maybe its someone you just met at a party.But Im not talking about a dating site.Im talkingVideo Script1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationVideo Script1Eduardo:Mark:Eduardo:Eduardo:Mark:Mark:about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it onli

6、ne.I cant feel my legs.I know.Im totally psyched about this,too.But,Wardo?Yeah?(recalling):“It would be exclusive.”You would have to know the people on the site to get past your own page,like getting punched.Now,thats good.Wardo,its like a final club,except were the president.Video Script1Eduardo:(r

7、ecalling):I told him I thought it sounded great.It was a great idea.There was nothing to hack.People were gonna provide their own pictures,their own information.And people had the ability to invite,or not invite,their friends to join.See,in a world where social structure was everything,that was the

8、thing.The Internet is a wonderful source from which we can retrieve valuable information.Moreover,it facilitates our communication with people far away from us at a cost substantially less than that of traditional means of communication.Also,it can be an important building block to childrens learnin

9、g because a vast amount of information is only clicks away.There is evidence suggesting that computer use is linked to slightly better academic performance.Cultural information 1Audiovisual supplementCultural informationPros and Cons of the InternetCultural information 2Audiovisual supplementCultura

10、l information However,there is sufficient evidence indicating that the Internet can exert a harmful influence on people.For example,its addictive power has increased children andyoungsters time spent in front of the computer screens at the expense of other healthier physical activities,thus increasi

11、ng their chance of getting overweight and short-sighted.In addition,children have limited ability of telling right from wrong and therefore are subject to the potential contaminating influence of the harmful materials on the Internet.Global Reading-Main idea 1Structural analysisRhetorical features I

12、f the Internet allows for the free exchange of ideas,it helps to unify us.Then how does it alienate us while uniting us?How does it fragment society while globalizing ideas?This is the issue that the author tackles in the text.This piece of argumentative writing falls into three parts.Part I(Paragra

13、phs 1 2):The writer presents his thesis in the opening part:the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.Global Reading-Main idea 1Structural analysisRhetorical featuresPart II(Paragraphs 3 6):The author supports his point with eviden

14、ce and reasons in the body of argumentation.Part III(Paragraph 7):The writer reiterates his main idea in the conclusion of the text.Global Reading-Main idea 1Structural analysisRhetorical featuresThe thesis statement of the text is in the second paragraph:“.the Internet may be responsible for furthe

15、ring the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.”The concluding statement appears at the beginning of the last paragraph:“All this being said,I believe that the key to realizing the potential of the Internet is in achieving balance in our lives.”Structural analysis 1Structural a

16、nalysisRhetorical features The seeming self-contradiction that the Internet can lead to globalization on the one hand and cause the alienation of the users from the people around them on the other is reinforced by the use of pairs of antonyms.Some examples:globalization/alienation;real/not real;reality/virtual existence;outside playing with his friends/play his games against his friends in the cyberspacePractice:Please find more examples of antonyms in the text.The Internet provides an amazing f