大学英语通识教程第一册教案unit 2 Life inEera.doc

Unit 2 Life in E-era I. Starter 3 1. Background Information 3 2. Lead-in Video clip Script 9 3. Questions for discussion 12 II. Detailed Reading 13 1. Structure Analysis 13 2. Comprehension Questions 13 3. Difficult Sentences 14 4. Vocabulary Expressions 16 III. After Reading 22 1. Oral Activity 22 2. Proverbs Quotations 27 3. Practical Writing Creating Your Own Microblog 28 IV. Supplementary Reading 32 1. Lead-in Notes 32 2. Detailed reading Vocabulary and Expressions 32 3. Difficult Sentences 37 4. Interaction 38 I. Starter Background Information 1). Facebook Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. 2). Mark Elliot Zuckerberg For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME?s 2010 Person of the Year. Zuckerberg is part of the last generation of human beings who will remember life before the Internet. He was born in 1984 and grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., the son of a dentist. Mark has three sisters, the eldest of whom, Randi, is now Facebook抯 head of consumer marketing and social-good initiatives. It was a supportive household that produced confident children. The young Mark was 搒trong-willed and relentless? according to his father. 揊or some kids, their questions could be answered with a simple yes or no,?he says. 揊or Mark, if he asked for something, yes by itself would work, but no required muc