Unit3ComputerPartOne:TeachingDesign(第一部分：教学设计)Period1:Asamplelessonplanforreading(WHOAMI?)AimsTotalkaboutcomputerToreadaboutcomputerProceduresI.WarmingupWarmingupbytalkingaboutcomputerLookatthepicturesonpage17.Whatarethey?Whatdotheyhaveincommon?Yes,theyarecomputers.Thenwhatisacomputer?Acomputerisamachinewhichstoresknowledgeinitsmemoryanddoescalculationsonthatknowledge.Thisknowledgeisstoredinsymbols;itiscalleddata.Acomputerusuallyhasamonitortoshowresults.However,somecomputerscanspeak;thesecomputerscanbeusedforvoicemail.计算机室Acomputerfrequentlyrequiresabootdevice.Thebootdevicecontainsthecomputer’soperatingsystemanddata.Computerprogramscanbeinstalledontoacomputer.SomepeoplethinkthatcomputersarelessusefuliftheydonothaveaccesstotheInternet.TheythinkthisbecausetheInternetallowsthecomputerstosendandreceivedataandemailacrosstheworld.曙光3000巨型计算机Acomputerisnowalmostalwaysanelectronicdevice.Itusuallycontainsmaterialswhicharetoxic;thesematerialswillbecometoxicwastewhendisposedof.Whenanewcomputerispurchasedinsomeplaces,lawsrequirethatthecostofitswastemanagementmustalsobepaidfor.Thisiscalledproductstewardship.Insomecountriesoldcomputersarerecycled(melteddown)togetgoldandothermetals.Thisisdangerous,becausethisprocedurereleasesthetoxicwasteintothewaterandsoil.Computersbecomeobsoletequickly.Veryoftentheyaregivenawayandnewonesreplacethemwithintwoorthreeyears.Thismakestheproblemworse.Computerrecyclingisthuscommon.Manyprojectstrytosendworkingcomputerstodevelopingnationssotheycanbere-usedandwillnotbecomewasteasquickly.Computerjargon计算机行话Computerjargonmeanswordstodowithcomputersandsurroundingtopics.Knowingwhatthesewordsmeancanhelpyouknowmoreaboutcomputers.Somepeopleusethesewordstoimpressotherpeople(Alsoknownasbuzzwords).Examplesofjargon:Bit-Thesmallestdataunit,caneitherbea“0.”ora“1.”.Byte-unitofdata.SeealsoKilobyte,Megabyte,GigabyteandNibbleCPU–CentralProcessingUnit,AnothernameforprocessorData-InformationstoredonacomputerDisk-Aplacetostoredata.Email-Electronicmail.GHz-Gigahertz.Usedoftenincorrectlytodescribethespeedofaprocessor.Butwithsome2.4GHzprocessorsfasterthan3.6GHzones,itisclearthatitisjustasalesmantrick.Load-GetdatafromadiskNibble-HalfaByteSave-PutdataonadiskRAM–random-accessmemory(随机存取存储器),themorethebetter.USB-UniversalSerialBus（通用串行总线，一种简化了插接多种附件的薄型插座）WWW-WorldWideWeb,partoftheInternetII.Pre-reading1.Questioningandanswering---Whatdoyouknowaboutcomputer?●Electronicmachinecapableofperformingcalculationsandothermanipulationsofvarioustypesofdata,underthecontrolofastoredsetofinstructions.Themachineitselfisthehardware;theinstructionsaretheprogramorsoftware.Dependinguponsize,computersarecalledmainframes,minicomputers,andmicrocomputers.Microcomputersincludedesk-topandportablepersonalcomputers.●Amulti-functionelectronicdevicethatcanexecuteinstructionstoperformatask.●Adevicethatacceptsinformation,processesit,andsuppliesanoutput.Acomputerusuallycontainsmemory,acontrolunit,arithmeticandlogicalunits,andameansforinputandoutput.●aprogrammablehardwarecomponentthatiscontrolledbyinternallystoredprogramsandthatcanperformsubstantialcomputations(includingarithmeticandlogicoperations)withouthumanintervention.Acomputertypicallyconsistsofoneormoreprocessingunits,memoryunits,andassociatedperipheralinputandoutputdevices.●Relatedtoautomationa...
