Unit 4 Lesson 2Websites

Let’s enjoy a song:A Big Big World

• Listen to the song and try to fill in the blanks with the words you hear.

• I’m a big big girl, in a big big _____ .• It’s not a big big _____ if you _____ me,• But I do do feel that I do do will• _____ you much, miss you much.

• I can see the first leaves _____ .• It’s all so yellow and nice;• It’s so very cold ______• Like the way I’m feeling inside.

Before you start:

• What does www. stand for?

• Do you use the Internet?

World Wide Web

Let’s read a passage.

• Student Times 11:

B2: College Internet Users

Let’s make a prediction!

• Do you know anything about the history of the Internet?

Ex 2.

Global Listening• 1.What’s the listening text about?

• 2.What do we call this type of radio program?

The Internet.

An interview.

Tick the words you hear:

Manchester University, Britain,

Internet, military, America,

Pentagon, communications,

nuclear war, linking, network,

share ideas, entertainment

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Intensive Listening:

• 1.Listen again more carefully and check your answers in Ex 2.

1 2 3 4a b a b

• 2. Can you fill in the blanks with the words you hear?

In ________, the Pentagon _____ ___________ communications after a nuclear war. And in 1969 they thought of _______ computers into a network.

And then people in universities all over the world began to use the network to ___________. They use it for work and _______ .

the 1960s wereworried about

linking

share ideasfor fun

Discuss with your partner:

1. What worried the Pentagon in the 1960s?

2. What do people in universities use the network for?

Questions:

Answers:

• 1. They were worried about communications after a nuclear war.

• 2. To share ideas.

Discuss with your partner:

1. What do you use the Internet for?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet?

Practice:

Homework:• Try to design a website in a

group of four.

Please hand it in next Monday.