Unit 4 Lesson 4 Virtual Tourism
Features
Immersive (身临其境的) Interactive
Real time Viewer-centered
What is Virtual Reality?
The use of computer simulations(仿真)to create a 3 D virtual world in which it provides the users with simulation of senses, such as vision, hearing, touch, and makes users feel as if they were in a real situation
Virtual reality in the film Avatar
Possible uses for virtual reality now
Learning to fly using virtual reality simulator
Learning to drive using virtual reality technology
headsets and special gloves and suits equipped with sensors
the user can directly interact with a 3D (dimension) computer programme by moving ‘inside’ it.
Visiting virtual museums on the Internet
skimming
1.How many virtual reality situations are mentioned in the dialogue?
virtual museum
virtual holiday
virtual university
2. What are they?
Three
Matching the words and expressions with the meaning
be up to
title
the name of a book or a passage
destination
be busy with
the place one wants to go to
in the flesh
to exit
historical sites
pack a suitcase
in person
to leave
put things into suitcase for traveling purposes
places which have rich historical background
What are Tom’s and Cathy’s plan for the weekend
Cathy
Tom
1.If she ________ the project on the history of the Internet , her science teacher _______ angry.
2. If Tom _____ her some titles, she _______ for them in the library.
1.He _______ camping with his parents if the weather
_____ good
2. If he _______ home, he __________with her project.
will help
will go
is
doesn’t finish
will be
tells
will look
stays
Reading for details
First Conditional
The First Conditional is used to talk about things which are possible in the present or the future -- things which may happen:
if clause
if + subject + simple present verb
main clause
subject + will + verb
If you study hard,
you will pass the test
if clause
main clause
Reading for details
we wouldn’t…
we would…
If we had virtual reality holidays,
If we had virtual universities,
- have to spend a long time traveling on planes to get to our holiday destinations.
- have to go there in the flesh.
- have to pack a suitcase.
- experience it.
- be able to use modern technology to go anywhere we like.
- use the computer to travel around the world.
- enter and exit countries in seconds and visit all the historical sites.
- go to study in any world famous universities we wanted to without going out of our room.
have any problems with the
weather.
Find out things we would do and would not do if we had virtual holidays and virtual universities.
Second Conditional
The Second Conditional is used to talk about 'impossible' situations or things which are unreal (not true or not possible) in the present or the future -- things which don't or won't happen:
if clause
if + subject + simple past verb
main clause
subject + would + verb
if clause
main clause
If I had a million dollars, I would buy a big house.
Chained talk
Example:
T: If I were a millionaire, I would buy a new house.
S1: If I had a new house, I would make a room into a cinema.
S2: If I had a cinema at home, I would watch movies everyday.
…
Language in use
If I were a teacher, …
If God gave me a chance,….
Tom ______Cathy going to the Science Museum website to find information. Cathy welcomed his idea A virtual reality holiday means using computers to travel around the world, entering and _______countries in seconds and visiting all the historical sites. Cathy felt excited about the idea of having ______ reality holidays while Tom found it hard to _______without experiencing it in the flesh.
With Virtual university, people would be able to go to study in any world famous universities. Cathy thought it________, but Tom were more_______ in virtual universities than virtual reality holidays. If someone gave him the chance ,he ________to a world-famous university But he thought it would not be the same as real university.
Complete their attitudes towards the three virtual situations
exiting
virtual
imagine
wonderful
interested
would go
suggest virtual wonderful interest imagine go exit
suggested
An TV interview
.
Suppose that you could go to University of Science and Technology of China. Meanwhile , You could also attend Stanford through virtual university to get your degree.
You want to attend the virtual university but your parents didn’t agree. Now you come to the TV show Face to Face. And you hope to reach an agreement with the help of the famous TV host
The host can begin the show like this : welcome to our today’s programme , I’m …., Let me introduce our today’s guest…..
For real university :
1. learn and improve one’s social skills
2. take part in various colorful activities
3. communicate with different sorts of people
4. having face-to-face meetings with teachers is necessary.
5. experience the learning atmosphere
6. interact with teachers and classmates
For virtual university
1. be convenient to attend
2. save transportation time
3. interaction is difficult in a virtual university??
4.?less?pressure?from?peers?(同龄人)?
5.?download?text?material?to?lower?cost
6. too?much?information?for?us?to?select?
?
Homework
Haze(雾霾)weather in Hefei is very serious, Do you have any good suggestions ? Write a short passage about what you would do to reduce it, if you were the mayor of Hefei.