新起点大学英语第一册Unit 9.doc

Unit Nine Teaching Objectives: 1. Grasp the main idea of Text A and Text B 2. Practice some new words and expressions 3. Master important language points and grammatical points. 4. Applied Writing: signs(标识语) (Practical English for Vocational Colleges Book 2 ,page23) Time Allotment: 1~2 periods: Pre-reading tasks and Text A 3~4 periods: Text A and new words of Text B 5~6 periods: Text B, grammar parts and exercises 7~8 periods: All the rest exercises and additional applied writing Text A Bring Your PC to college? 1. Pre-reading Tasks 1.1. Background Information: Internet: the internet is made up of millions of computers linked together around the world in such a way that information can be sent from any computer to any other 24 hours a day. These computers can be in homes, schools, universities, government departments or businesses small and large. They can be any type of computer and be single personal computers or workstations on a school or a company network. The internet is often described as “ a network of networks” because all the smaller networks of organizations are linked together into the one giant network called the internet. All computers are pretty much equal once connected to the internet, the only difference will be the speed of the connection which is dependent on your Internet Service Provider and you own modem. websites: /en/ 新浪外语学习网 1.2. Introduction Nowadays, it is reported that when some students prepare to study in the college, usually they ask their parents to buy them 3 kinds of things: personal computer, Mp3 and cell phone. From that we can see those young people are very fashionable Undoubtedly, if they own these things, their college lives will be more colorful and convenient. But as the old saying says: “Each coin has two sides”, we have to face some serious problems like wasting money and time. So self-control is very important to every