《21世纪大学英语 21st Century College English》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿）Book 1 Unit 8 Text A Foreword

2lst Century College English: Book I Unit 8 Text A Foreword CLICI

Unit 8: Text A Foreword 21st Century College English: Book 1

Unit 5: Text A Lead-in Activities Text Organization Reading Writing skills Language Points Guided practice ° Assignment

Unit 5: Text A • Lead-in Activities • Text Organization • Reading & Writing Skills • Language Points • Guided Practice • Assignment

Lead-in activities Questions for Discussion What do you know about bill gates and his company microsoft? 2. How does information highway influence us? 3. What kind of technological innovations might we see in the next 20 years?

1. What do you know about Bill Gates and his company Microsoft? 2. How does information highway influence us? 3. What kind of technological innovations might we see in the next 20 years? Lead-in Activities Questions for Discussion

Text Organization The Structure of TextA Bill Gates and his friend believed, the first truly personal computer brought the world great changes. Para. 1 The upcoming communications revolution. Para.2-7 The purpose for which Bill Gates wrote the book. Para.8-12

Text Organization The Structure of Text A The upcoming communications revolution. The purpose for which Bill Gates wrote the book. Para. 2-7 Para. 8-12 Bill Gates and his friend believed, the first truly personal computer brought the world great changes. Para. 1

Reading writing skills Metaphor is a way of thinking of one thing in terms of another thing makes a COmparision between two unlike elements. This comparison iS IMPLIED rather than stated Make a list of all the words and phrases you can find with which Gates refers to computer technology as if it were a road, journey, or adventure 2. Do you think this comparison of computer technologies to a journey is an effective one? If so, explain how the image of travel fits well with the new technologies. If not what would be a better comparison?

Reading & Writing Skills Metaphor is a way of thinking of one thing in terms of another thing makes a COMPARISION between two unlike elements. This comparison is IMPLIED rather than STATED 1. Make a list of all the words and phrases you can find with which Gates refers to computer technology as if it were a road, journey, or adventure. 2. Do you think this comparison of computer technologies to a journey is an effective one? If so, explain how the image of travel fits well with the new technologies. If not, what would be a better comparison?

Intensive study Text-related Information Intensive Study Difficult sentences Key words, phrases usages Comprehension exercises

Intensive Study • Text-related Information • Intensive Study ➢ Difficult sentences ➢ Key words, phrases & usages ➢ Comprehension exercises

Text-related Information 合 Bill(William) Gates Bill (william) Gates, born in 1955, is an American computer entrepreneur who in 1975 co-founded Micro-Soft Later Microsoft) with Paul Allen,a private company for the manufacture and sale of computers. By the end of the 1980s Microsoft was a leading multi- national computer company and had made gates, its chairman and chief executive, the youngest multi-billionaire in the world

Text-related Information Bill (William) Gates Bill (William) Gates, born in 1955, is an American computer entrepreneur who in 1975 co-founded Micro-Soft (later Microsoft) with Paul Allen, a private company for the manufacture and sale of computers. By the end of the 1980s Microsoft was a leading multi￾national computer company and had made Gates, its chairman and chief executive, the youngest multi-billionaire in the world

Text-related Information 合 The road ahead《未来之路》 Authored by Bill Gates, The Road Ahead was first published by the penguin group(New York) in 1995.In the book, Bill Gates looks ahead to show how the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform all our lives and gives us his vision of the undiscovered territory on the information highway

Authored by Bill Gates, The Road Ahead was first published by the Penguin Group (New York) in 1995. In the book, Bill Gates looks ahead to show how the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform all our lives and gives us his vision of the undiscovered territory on the information highway. The Road Ahead 《未来之路》 Text-related Information

Language Points 合 Foreword by Bill Gates 1 The past twenty years have been an incredible adventure for me. It started on a day when as a college sophomore, I stood in Harvard Square with my friend Paul Allen and pored over the description of a kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine. As we read excitedly about the first truly personal computer, Paul and I didn't know exactly how it would be used, but we were sure it would change us and the world of computing. We were right. The personal-computer revolution happened and it has affected millions of lives. It has led us to places we had barely imagined

Foreword by Bill Gates 1 The past twenty years have been an incredible adventure for me. It started on a day when, as a college sophomore, I stood in Harvard Square with my friend Paul Allen and pored over the description of a kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine. As we read excitedly about the first truly personal computer, Paul and I didn’t know exactly how it would be used, but we were sure it would change us and the world of computing. We were right. The personal-computer revolution happened and it has affected millions of lives. It has led us to places we had barely imagined. Language Points

Language Points 合 2 We are all beginning another great journey. We aren't sure where this one will lead us either, but again I am certain this revolution will touch even more lives and take us all farther the major changes coming will be in the way people communicate with each other. The benefits and problems arising from this upcoming communications revolution will be much greater than those brought about by the Pc revolution

2 We are all beginning another great journey. We aren’t sure where this one will lead us either, but again I am certain this revolution will touch even more lives and take us all farther. The major changes coming will be in the way people communicate with each other. The benefits and problems arising from this upcoming communications revolution will be much greater than those brought about by the PC revolution. Language Points