课件19张PPT。Unit 3 ComputersTeacher Students: Class 4 Grade 1A (PC) Personal computerA notebook computer A calculatorAn abacusDiscuss with your partners, and find out what they have in common?Warming-up If you have a computer,what can you do with it? Pre-reading(Our daily life, study, work, education)Fast-readingRead the text quickly and then answer the question.
What is the text mainly about? Listening
How many kinds of calculating machines were mentioned in the text?
1)Calculating machine
2)Analytical machine
3)Universal machine
4)Machine with artificial intelligence
5)Machine with new transistorScanning
Fill in the blanks with the information from the reading above.1642:
: The Analytical Machine was made by Charles
Babbage.
1936:
1960s:
: The first family of computers was connected to
each other.
1970s:
Now :
A calculating machine was used in France.1822 Alan Turing wrote a book to describe how computers could be made to work and built a “universal machine” to solve any mathematical problem.I got my new transistors in the 1960s.1960sComputers were brought into people’s homes.
Computers have been used by billions of people to
deal with information and communicate with each
other around the world by the Internet.
Task1 pair-work Use the following questions to ask each other.
1) Where were you in 1642?
2)What happened to you in 1822?
3)What were you called in 1936?
4)What did you get in the 1960s?
5)What happened to you in the 1970s?
6)What have happened to you now?Task 2
Use the third person to retell the text according to the following table.What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of computer?Group discussion Computers are very expensive Computers can help us work fastSummary1.The history and development of computers
Calculating machine
Analytical machineUniversal machineMachine with artificial intelligenceMachine with new transistor2.Computers in our life3. Advantages and disadvantagesHomework
If you were a scientist and were free to design your own dream computer, what would it look like and why?Goodbye!!!
Thanks for listening!