myself, until in early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a network.
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Task 2 Fast reading
1. Where were you in 1642? In France.
2. What happened to you after nearly two hundred years? I was built as an Analytical Machine by Babbage.
now Computers connect people all over the world together.
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Develop Early days
ment Name
Funcl_c_u_la_t_i_n_g Simplify machine difficult sums
Pre-reading questions
1. What have computers changed our life?
2. What changes will they bring to us in the future?
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Task 1 Skimming
1. Who is the speaker in this story? A computer.
7 explore
8 totally 9 anyhow 10 finance
to travel around an area to find out about it completely anyway activity of managing money
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The history of computers
Book II unit3
Reading
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Warming up
Look at these pictures. Discuss what they have in common. Predict what it is going to be about.
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What’s next?
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An a_n_a_l_y_t_ic_a_l Think logically machine and produce
an answer quickly
A _u_n_i_v_e_r_sa_l_ Solve difficult
machine
_m__a_th_e_m__a_t_ic_a_l _p_r_o_b_l_em__s__
Finance
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Robots
Mobile phones
M__e_d_ic_a_l_o_p_e_r_ations Space rockets Wide
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Task 4 Fill in the blanks.
1 totally completely
2 revolution complete change
3. What were you called in 1936? A universal machine.
4. What happened to you in the 1970s? I have been used in offices and homes.
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Task 3 Careful reading
2. What is IT? Information Technology.
3. What is CD-ROM?
Compact disc read-only memory. 4. What is PDA?
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The first generation (1945-1956)
the second generation (1956-1963)
the fourth generation the third generation
(1971- )
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1. What is PC? Speak the name on the whole. It means: personal computer.
3 simplify to make things easier
4 calculate to find the answer using
numbers
5 mobile can be moved easily from place to place
6 solve
to work out the answer to a演示p课r件oblem
Strong
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Develo pment
Network times
_M__e_m__o_ry__ Tubes stored in _T__r_a_n_si_s_to_r_s__
Small chips
Large Small
Ap__p_li_c_a_tions _C_o_m__m_u_n_i_c_ation Narrow
1642 The computer began as a
calculating machine．
1822 The analytical machine was made by Charles Babbage.
1936 The computer grew rapidly both in size and in brainpower.
2. Write down three sentences from the story to support your idea.
1) I was built as an Analytical machine by Charles Babbage.
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2) My real father, Alan Turing, … 3) I was always lonely standing there by
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1940s Computers had grown as large as a room.
1960s The first family of computers was connected to each other.
1970s Computers were used in offices and homes.