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PART
1:
Textual Structure
Paragraphs 1-2: Introduction of interactive
life
• a huge amount of information available to anyone at the
touch of a button
• PART 2: Paragraphs 3-18: description of interactive life
Lesson 8
An Interactive Life
Teaching Procedure
• Teaching Objectives • Background Information • Textual Structure • Text Analysis • Text Appreciation
Teaching Objectives
• a life which acts reciprocally,
mutually, receives and gives in return
Background Information
•The text is taken from American Newsweek.
Newsweek is American news weekly established in Dayton, Ohio in 1933. In it domestic and international news is summarized, analyzed and categorized according to topics each week. It also has special sections devoted to arts, science, medicine, sports, etc. it is one of the three largest newsweeklies of America and has a wide domestic and international circulation. The authors of the text, Barbara Kantrowitz and Joshua Cooper Ramo are regular contributors to Newsweek
Edison National Historical Site in West Orange, N. J.
Broadway
• New York City thoroughfare that traverses the length of
Manhattan, near the middle of which are clustered the theatres that have long made it the foremost showcase of commercial stage entertainment in the United States. The term Broadway is virtually synonymous with American theatrical activity. Broadway gained its name as the axis of an important theatre district.
off-off-off Broadway :
• Shows that cannot make into Broadway are called "off
Broadway."
• If a show is really bad, or really small in scale, it is even less
are performed in some smaller theaters, usually in some other odd places like the village. Some of these off Broadway shows can become successful and eventually become a Broadway show, but mostly that never happens.
than off Broadway show.
• Broadway shows are usually big budget productions with
famous producers.
• Newer shows usually start as off Broadway, meaning that they
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
•American inventor,
• one of the greatest
inventors of all time.
• Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions, including
the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion-picture camera.
• These three inventions gave rise to giant industries—
electric utilities, phonograph and record companies, and the film industry—thus changing the work and leisure habits of people throughout the world.
• To understand the text • To learn the words and phrases about the
interactive life
• To be familiar with the interactive life
Background