Lecture Five
Vocabulary
Virtual World
cyber space
Internet world
virtual reality
net world
real world
real life
reality
Word Web: A Virtual Life
on the Net
Internet mailing lists
connection
on line
system crash
link data
computer assisted
telecommuter
cyber-interaction
connection
How would you manage your life if you couldn't go out of your room and the only way you could get in touch with the outside is the internet?
Unit 4 Text A1. How is your life influenced by Internet?
2. How are the author’s life and work influenced by Internet?
Life
•boyfriend’s accent:
•secretary’s clipped tone:
•Time:
•Weekends:
impossible to interpret
more rejecting
fluid
ordinary days
Work
TV producer—Telecommuter
•submit and edit articles via email
•communicate with colleagues on line
3. How will you feel if you stay on line for a long time?
4. What is the author’s life like after her staying on line for a long time?
Unit 4 Text A1. How is your life influenced by Internet?
2. How are the author’s life and work influenced by Internet?
•feeling•daily life•personality•behavior
feeling:
life:
personality:
real life behavior:
virtual life behavior:
aversion to the outside world
lack of discipline
shyer, more cautious, more anxious
sucked in by soap operas
attacking everyone in sight
Generalization: Daily routine is important
The dress was too big, so I took it in.
I didn’t take in what you were studying.
She took in every details Mary’s clothes.
Do you mean we should take in the fresh?
This is the total cost of the trip, taking in everything.
Don’t be taken in by her promise.
make narrower
understand
observe
receive
including
deceive
1. take in
live broadcasting
a living language
lively statue
keep your hope alive
2. live
3. jar
jar sth.
The fall jarred every bone in my body.
jar on sb./ sth.
Her laugh jars on me.
4. suck
suck sb. in/into sth.
Some teenagers don’t want to get involved in the gangs, but they soon find themselves sucked in.
I don’t want to get sucked into debate about school reform.
No vehicle is in sight.
Peace was in sight at last after four years of war.
lose sight of
out of sight
5. in sight
•hope project
•project one’s jaw in defiance
•project an arrow
•project the slide onto a screen
•a posture that projects defeat
6. project
7. abuse
• abuse power/ the abuse of power
• abuse children/ children abuse
• abuse sb./ filthy abuses
5. How do you think people will be if they are indulged in Internet all the day?
6. What does the author do to return to real life and what is the result?
Unit 4 Text A1. How is your life influenced by Internet?
2. How are the author’s life and work influenced by Internet?
3. How will you feel if you stay on line for a long time?
4. How does the author feel after staying on line for a long time?
The author tries to…•call people
•get to the gym
•arrange interviews & doctor’s appointments
But then she feels…•being face to face is too much
•everything is intolerable and unbearable
restore
restore sth.
To restore balance to my life
restore sb. to sth.
Doing exercises everyday restore the old man to good health.
Contents Paragraphs
1.Description of the author’s virtual life
2. How she feels about it after staying on the Net for a while
3. What she does in trying to return to the real world
4. How she feels about the real day-to-day world
2-3
1,4-10,13
11
12
Text Structure
Para.1: After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock.
Para.13: I click on the modem, the once-annoying sound of the connection now as pleasant as my favorite tune. I enter my password. The real world disappears.
Compare and Think
Debate
Group1:
Internet will isolate us from one another.
Group2:
Internet will make us closer.
