新一代大学英语提高篇综合教程2U1Communication-in-the-digital-age2.pptx

;;CONTENTS;;Warm-up;1 How has the way we communicate changed? 2 At the end of the audio clip, the speaker raises several questions as listed below. What are your answers to these questions? 1) What happens when a child begins to replace face-to-face interactions with digital conversations? 2) What happens when a mother and father sit at a dinner table on their phone as their child is watching this? 3) What is the difference between asking someone in person and just sending him or her a text message?;References: ;2 At the end of the audio clip, the speaker raises several questions as listed below.;One possibility is that the child may think their parents don’t love each other since they “refuse” to talk to each other; and he may also think they don’t love him or care about his feelings because they don’t talk to him either. Hence, the child’s cognition of love and being loved might be affected. Another possibility is that the child may think that it’s the normal way of interaction between a husband and a wife, and even among family members. When he grows up, he may also interact with his spouse and child in the similar way.;Asking someone in person can show respect and seriousness of the speaker. Plus, it can also build and strengthen personal connection.;Further discussion;1 How do you understand the sentence “The great lie of our generation is the phrase ‘social media,’ it is not really social media, but ‘anti-social media.’”?;The speaker doesn’t want to blame the device. It’s not the smartphone’s problem. The problem comes down to people’s behavior with the smartphone. He calls on people to change their behaviors, to choose to act differently, to choose to stop looking down and start looking up. Remember: the time we spend in our virtual homes is at the expense of interaction in our real homes in the real world.;; The reading is a report of the Let’s Talk project that aims to get people to talk. The audio clip in Listening is a talk Chris Andrews, a re