高级英语课件.ppt

1、Lesson8AnInteractiveLifeTeachingProcedureTeachingObjectivesBackgroundInformationTextualStructureTextAnalysisTextAppreciationTeachingObjectivesTounderstandthetextTolearnthewordsandphrasesabouttheinteractivelifeTobefamiliarwiththeinteractivelifeBackgroundinformationInteractiveLifea life which acts rec

2、iprocally,mutually,receives and gives in returnBackgroundInformationThe text is taken from American Newsweek.Newsweek is American news weekly established in Dayton,Ohio in 1933.In it domestic and international news is summarized,analyzed and categorized according to topics each week.It also has spec

3、ial sections devoted to arts,science,medicine,sports,etc.it is one of the three largest newsweeklies of America and has a wide domestic and international circulation.The authors of the text,Barbara Kantrowitz and Joshua Cooper Ramo are regular contributors to NewsweekThomasAlvaEdison(1847-1931)Ameri

4、caninventor,oneofthegreatestinventorsofalltime.Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions,including the electric light,the phonograph,and the motion-picture camera.These three inventions gave rise to giant industrieselectric utilities,phonograph and record companies,and the film industrythus changin

5、g the work and leisure habits of people throughout the world.EdisonNationalHistoricalSiteinWestOrange,N.J.BroadwayNew York City thoroughfare that traverses the length of Manhattan,near the middle of which are clustered the theatres that have long made it the foremost showcase of commercial stage ent

6、ertainment in the United States.The term Broadway is virtually synonymous with American theatrical activity.Broadway gained its name as the axis of an important theatre district.off-off-offBroadway:Shows that cannot make into Broadway are called off Broadway.If a show is really bad,or really small i

7、n scale,it is even less than off Broadway show.Broadway shows are usually big budget productions with famous producers.Newer shows usually start as off Broadway,meaning that they are performed in some smaller theaters,usually in some other odd places like the village.Some of these off Broadway shows

8、 can become successful and eventually become a Broadway show,but mostly that never happens.TextualStructurePART 1:Paragraphs 1-2:Introduction of interactive life a huge amount of information available to anyone at the touch of a button PART 2:Paragraphs 3-18:description of interactive life A.difficu

9、lt to understand because its still a long way B.four phases:fake interactive,true interactive,complete viewer control,and final frontier C.possible dreams because of large capacity chip,fibre optic cables and digitalization D.dark side:no privacy,wide gap,considerable debate 3.Paragraph 19:Suggestio

10、n hanging on for the rideTextAnalysisPART1Heintendedtorecordvoices-nothingmore.Wherehesawinternalmemos,someoneelsesawBeethoven.youllclickonalternativestorylinesandcreateyourindividualizedversionof“TerminatorXII”.Inordertoformaviewofwhatwillhappeninthefuture,youneedonlytohavealookatwhathappenedinthep

11、ast.Inthetensofyearscoveredbythemachinesonexhibition,theideaandpurposeofsoundrecordingexperiencedgreatchanges.conceiveof:envision,imagineEdison designed and developed his sound recording machine as a working tool for people to talk to each other over long distance.His only intention in inventing the

12、 machine was the recording of voices.His business rivals,adversaries saw in their minds that there was great possibility of using the machine for entertainment and art.memo=memorandum(formal):a note of sth.to be remembered.Beethoven:metonymy,referring to the music by BeethovenHe imagined that the ma

13、chine could record informal communication between departments in a company but other people thought it could be used to record music.Edison applied the machine to business while others to a different thing,music-entertainment.Paragraph 1.Stepping into the past so as to understand the future prophecy

14、:apredictionmemorial(to):n.sth.esp.a stone monument,in memory of a person,event,etc.At some future time it will be quite suitable to have a place like the Edison National Historical Site in memory of those who make the important advance recently in interactivity although it has not been able to do a

15、ll the things the creators promised.pin:attach with a pinon the drawing board:in the planning stage;hype:n.(infml.often derog.)loud,exaggerated promotion or publicity;attempts to get a lot of public attention for things or people by saying loudly and often that they are very good,or better than they

16、 really aree.g.media hype 传媒宣传hyping their latest record with a lot of interviewsSince large sums of money have been spent on an idea which is mainly in the planning stage,since great hopes have been put on such idea,there certainly is a lot of exaggerated publicity.simply put:to express in a way that is easy to understandesoteric scientific journals:magazines on science written in such a way as to be understood only by a few who know the subjectTo put it in a simple way,the most wonderful thing