The Internet and Telecommunication Reading and vocabulary 日 日日日 日 日 日 :
What can we do on the Internet?
1) listen to music.
2) search for information
3) shopping
4) chat on line
5) play games
6) send an e-mail
7) watch movies
source of informationsource of information
DARPA / DARPANETDARPA / DARPANET
the world wide webthe world wide web
networknetwork
websitewebsite
web trafficweb traffic
web browserweb browser
NSF / NSFNETNSF / NSFNET
Pre-reading – some new wordsPre-reading – some new words
信息源
万维网网络网站
网络交流网站浏览器
What’s the passage mainly about?
(a)General knowledge about the computer.
(b)General knowledge about the computer invention.
(c)General knowledge about the computer network.
I. Read the text quickly and choose :
Para 1 and 2 Answer the questions.
Did the universities start using the Internet at the same time as the army? If not, which earlier?No, they didn’t. The army started earlier.
Para 3 and 41.Try to translate this sentence into Chinese
The World Wide Web is a computer network that allows computer users to access information from millions of websites via the Internet. (para. 3)
万维网是一种允许计算机用户通过因特网,从上百万个网站读取信息的计算机网络。
2 .Decide if these sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1.The percentage of websites in English is
getting larger. ( ) 2. The World Wide Web was invented in
1989 by an English scientist . ( )
3. Tim Berners-Lee came up with the
idea of the World Wide Web in 1989
while he was at university. ( )
F
F
F
____________ smaller
_____ 1991
_________ Switzerland
Para 5 &6
Tim Berner-Lee made it ________ for everyone to use the Internet, _____ _____ universities and the army. He________ the first “web browser”, ______ allowed computer users to _____ documents from the other. From that moment on, the web and the Internet _______ . Everyone in the world can access the Internet ______ his World Wide Web system.
possiblenot just designed
whichaccess
grew
using
Fill in the blanks:
Post-reading Retell the text.
1)How much do you know about the Internet ?
2)How much do you know about the World Wide Web?
3)How much do you know about Berners-Lee?
The Internet
The biggest source of information
Accessible through a computer
First used by army (in 1969)
Then…university
Now… every
The W W W
1 Invented by Tim Berners-Lee
2 A computer network
3 allow computer users to access information
4 web traffic
Tim Berners-LeeTim is an English scientist _____ invented the www._____ an old television, he built his first computer.In 1989, the idea of the invention ___ ___ ____ ____.He ______ ___ _____ for the public to use the Internet.The first web browser ________ by him _______ people
to have ______ to documents from the computers._____ then _____, the web and the Internet grew. The number of users _____ from 600,000 to 40million. Not among those _________ _______ by the Internet, he’s only a _________ working in an institute.
whowhoUsingUsing
came to his mindcame to his mindmade it possiblemade it possible
designeddesigned allowedallowedaccessaccess
From onFrom on
roserosemillionaires createdmillionaires created
lecturerrlecturerr
Debate
Is it a delicious cake or poison for senior students to access the Internet?
Possible words and phrases to use
cake
news, make friends (email, QQ)
watch sports games, listen to music ,do business
receive e-learning, ‥‥‥
poison
be addicted in computer games
be harmful to health (shortsighted)
surf bad websites‥‥‥
advantages:
disadvantages:
make friends via the Internet
search the information
listen to music
learn English
chat on the Internet
waste the time
be far away from the real life
be addicted to (沉迷于 ) playing computer games
copy the others’ articles
be bad for our eyes/bodiesmuch bad information