课件22张PPT。 M7 Unit1Living with technologyWhat would life be like without them?Free talkaudio devicesReading: TV and audio devices --- a reviewa report of past eventsGuess according to the title:What does the passage talk about?
What is the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?Read the text and finish Part A on P2.1. When did regular public TV broadcasting begin around the world?
2. What is WebTV?
3. What was invented in 1954?It began on 11 May 1928 in New York and in London on 20 August 1929.It is the TV set combined with the World Wide Web.The cassette recorder.Fast-reading:True or false exercisesThomas Edison made the first recording
of a human voice.
2. Until 1972, most people used black-and-white TV.
3. Satellite TV is delivered with greater
clarity than digital TV.
4. The first record player was invented
before 1877.
5. Transistor technology was first used to
receive radio programmes, and then to
develop cassette recorders.
6. CDs were invented about ten years before the MD player was invented.
7. MP3 technology began in Germany in 1987.Digital TVsatellite TVaftermilitary usefor(by _______ of equipment)______history of TVtypes(in order of______ )Early history of____________
_________________________
______ goes digitalTVAudio
devicesEarlytimemodernSoundage: Cable TV, satellite TV, digital TV,… The _______audio devicesTape recorders and players How is the passage organized _______________.
A. by paragraphs B. in chronological order
C. by concepts D. by sub-topicsStructurespecific
yearsthe eventsCareful-readinghistory of TV19251948Colour broadcasts began in the USA.Satellites began to be used to broadcast TV.198919961. Who might be the inventor of the first TV?
A. Vladimir Zworykin from Russia.
B. Philo Farnsworth in the USA.
C. John Logie Baird from Scotland.
D. It remains uncertain.
2. How many countries have put digital TV into operation according to the passage?
A. Only one. B. Already two.
C. At most three. D. At least four. specific yearsthe
eventsaudio devicesInvention of transistor led to the development of cassette recorders.First recording of a human voice was made.1958First CDs produced by using digital technology were made available.Development of MP3 technology started in Germany.Development of MD player began.3 American scientists invented the transistor.audio devices 1.Who might have attributed to the development of the Walkman?
A. two Japanese engineers.
B. three American scientists.
C. Thomas Edison.
D. Emile Berliner.
2. What is the main factor that causes the music websites to spring up all over the Internet?
A. The popularity of Walkman.
B. The development of the MD player.
C. The development of MPs technology.
D. The wide use of Discman. Task-reading任务型阅读contributionswirelessfollowedhouseholdsbeganmarketbetteravailabletechnologyinventorConsolidation The first public showings of _______ TV transmissions were made in 1925. It took another three years ______ there was any _______ public broadcasting, first in the USA and in the _________ year in Britain. People must have found it quite a _________ when color TV was first ________ in 1929. However, _______ the next 65 years, people would be able to choose what to watch from a ________ of 200 channels because of digital TV. It is ________ that in 1998, 66 percent of __________ in the USA had cable TV.
The _________ of audio devices started with Thomas Edison’s first _________, and then moved on to different kinds of tape recorders, and finally CDs, which were __________ in the 1980s.It may be surprising that Germany is the _________ of MP3, not Japan or the USA. These things all bring great ____________ and delight to people’s lives.wirelessdelightbeforefollowingregularwithinshownvarietyhouseholdsreportedevolutionrecordingbirthplaceintroducedconvenience6.对……作出贡献
13.彩色的
14.黑白电视
19.比……好;优于
22.有机会使用…
25.上市
26.做问卷调查
27.与其他观众聊天
32.被手动上发条
38.电流
45.声音数字化.
52.正如名称所示
16.花了50年才有66%的美国家庭拥有了它.
contribute to… in colourblack-and-white TVbe superior tohave access to…come on to the marketrespond to questionnaireschat to other viewersbe wound up by handan electric currentSound goes digital.as the name indicatesIt took 50 years before 66percent of American households had it.Underline the phrases.advantages disadvantages discussion:meet people’s needs.
have improved people’s lives to some degree.
radiation from them may be harmful to people’s health.
generate large amount of waste, which is harmful to the environment. to sum up
Read the text and try to memorize the words and expressions.
Do Language practice on page 102.Homework: