Unit 3Reading 冯思佐 Look at these pictures. Discuss what they have in common. Predict what it is going to be about.Warming upWhat’s next?Pre-reading questions1. What have computers changed our life?2. What changes will they bring to us in the future?Task 1 SkimmingTask 1 Skimming1. Who is the speaker in this story? A computer.2. Write down three sentences from the story to support your idea. 1) I was built as an Analytical machine by Charles Babbage.2) My real father, Alan Turing, …3) I was always lonely standing there by myself, until in early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network.Task 2 Fast reading1. Where were you in 1642? In France.2. What happened to you after nearly two hundred years? I was built as an Analytical Machine by Babbage.3. What were you called in 1936? A universal machine.4. What happened to you in the 1970s? I have been used in offices and homes.16421822 The analytical machine was made by Charles Babbage.1936The computer began as a calculating machine ．The computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.Task 3 Careful reading1940s The first family of computers was connected to each other.1970s nowComputers had grown as large as a room.1960sComputers were used in offices and homes.Computers connect people all over the world together.DevelopmentEarly daysNameFunctionPoorStrongA _________ machineSimplify difficult sumsAn ________ machineThink logically and produce an answer quicklyA _________ machineSolve difficult ______________________calculatinganalytical universal mathematical problemsDevelopmentNetwork times_________ stored inTubesLargeSmall____________Small chips ________________Narrow WideFinance________RobotsMobile phones___________Space rocketsMedical operations MemoryTransistors...
