keyboardmousemonitorscreenspeaker host computer 1. use computer for school work2. play games on the computer3. send emails to friends4. surf the Web for fun5. download music and films6. chat online7. search for information 8. look at photographs9. do shopping online …How can we use the computers and the Internet? How useful computers are! Guess! A toy?A handbag? Task 1 SkimmingTask 1 Skimming1. Who is the speaker in this story? A computer.2. What’s the general idea of the passage?The passage is mainly about the history And development of computers. Computers connect people _______________________ togetherNow Computers were brought into _____________________1970sThe first family of computers connected to each other __________ The computer had grown _________________1940sAlan Turing wrote a book to describe _____________________________1936The Analytical Machine was built by Charles Babbage_________The computer began as a ______________________________1642 a calculating machine1822 how computers could be made1960s people’s homes all over the world The history of computers as large as a roomscanning Read Para1 and find the topic sentence • 1.Topic sentence Over time I have been changed quite a lot 2.supporting details calculating machine analytical machine universal machine PC laptopcareful reading Read Para2 and find the topic sentence• 1.Topic sentence These changes only become possible as my memory improved 2.Supporting details tubes transistors small chips network WWW Read Para 3 and topic sentence• 1.topic sentence Since the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. 2.Supporting details communications finance trade robots make mobile phones madical operations space rockets explore the Moon and Mars providing a life of high quality Improvement Mini-Writing 现在,电脑在我们日常生活中发挥着越来越重要的作用,请你运用本节所学重要语言知识并根据提示写一篇 80 字左右的短文。 提示: ① 借助电脑能处理很多事情,如听音乐、看比赛、 发 e-mails 等。 ② 有些学生痴迷于上网,以致于厌烦了学习,有些 甚至因此走上犯罪道路。 ③ 就你个人而言,谈谈你对正确使用电脑的看法。 One possible vesion Nowadays, the computer is playing a more and more important part in our daily life. With the help of the computer, we can deal with many things, such as listening to music, watching matches and sending e-mails.However, some students are so crazy about surfing the Internet that they get tired of study.Even some students break the law as a result of that. Personally, I am not quite against surfing the Internet in a way. But we should have a proper attitude towards the computer.