1、unit 4,the virtual life,movie clip appreciation,youve got mail -tom hanks -meg ryan,how does the internet affect peoples lives?,interior monologue of kathleen,“dear friend, i like to start my notes to you as if we are already in the middle of a conversation. i pretend that we are the oldest and dear

2、est friends as opposed to what we actually are people who dont know each others names and met in a chat room where we both claimed weve never been before. what will ny152 say today, i wonder. i turn on my computer. i wait impatiently as it connects. i go online and my breath catches in my chest unti

3、l i hear three little words, “youve got mail.” i hear nothing, not even a sound on the streets of new york, just the beat of my own heart. i have mail, from you.”,movie review,i thought this film was one of the first to really give an accurate portrayal of the way in which the internet has so powerf

4、ully affected the lives of people. heres the main and completely irrelevant reason to love this movie: new york city in the fall. without even resorting to shots of central park in all its glory (and really, who can resist that?), youve got mail takes you on a lovely scenic tour of the upper west si

5、de, starbucks and all. its picture-perfect, and if its a bit surreal, i wont admit it: new york really is rather lovely in the fall. meg ryan and tom hanks shine in this romantic comedy. this is the second time this duo have performed together (sleepless in seattle). perhaps that helps create the sm

6、ooth natural tone of the interactions between the two.,computer-related vocabulary items,combing forms: virtual world/life 虛擬世界、生活 virtualoffice/community 虛擬辦公室/社區(qū) web page/website 網(wǎng)頁/網(wǎng)站 webmaster 網(wǎng)站維護(hù)者 web tv 網(wǎng)絡(luò)電視 cyber culture 網(wǎng)絡(luò)文化 cyber-interaction 網(wǎng)絡(luò)互動,cybernaut 網(wǎng)蟲 cyberpet 電子寵物 cyber space 網(wǎng)絡(luò)空間

7、 e-card/e-cash 電子賀卡/電子貨幣 email 電子郵件 e-journal/e-book 電子雜志/電子書籍 e-shopper 網(wǎng)購者 e-business/ecommerce 電子商務(wù),prefix+verb cybersurf 網(wǎng)絡(luò)漫游 netsurf websurf email 發(fā)送電子郵件,cyber/net+suffix cyberian 網(wǎng)絡(luò)用戶 cyberphobia 電腦恐懼癥 netter 網(wǎng)民 webify 使萬維網(wǎng)化 cyberize 使聯(lián)網(wǎng),task: find out the internet-related words or phrases fro

8、m the text,clipped words,cyberdoc cyber+doctor netcast net+broadcast netizen net+citizen netpreneur net+entrepreneur e-tailing electronic+retailing e-zine electronic+ magazine,webcam web+camera webliography web+bibiliography webcasting web+broadcasting webnomics web+economics,what could we do with t

9、he internet?,romance (blind-match, 世紀(jì)佳緣) business / commerce (taobao, dangdang, amazon, ebay, etc.) personal spaces and weblog (sina, soho, tianya, qq, 163, etc.) job-hunting ( 智聯(lián)招聘) education (virtual college, net college, networking academy) work on the net (playwright, free-columnist, journalist,

10、 taobao businessmen, novelist, etc., software designer, accountant, etc.) entertainment (movie, games, music, museum, travelling, etc.) news and informations (weather report, financing) communications (emails, e-card, qq, msn, skype ),the defects of the internet,unsafety time-assuming bad for health

11、 crime privacy generation gap values mental problem,key words or phrases,abuse prefix “ab-/abs” submit interpret communicate prefix “inter-”,take in symptom jar in sight cue flee,abusevt. 說明, 領(lǐng)會， 演繹 he interpreted a difficult passage in a book. 他解釋了書中一段難懂的文字。 i interpreted his silence as a refusal.

12、我把他的沉默看作是拒絕的表示。 vt. misunderstand. 誤解,communicate (page101 表達(dá) a politician must be able to communicate. 政治家必須善于表達(dá)自己的觀點。 she reluctantly communicated the facts. 她不愿把真實情況講出來。 通訊; 交際, 交流 she and i dont communicate any more. 我和她不再通信了. 相連; 相通 her bedroom communicates with the bathroom. 她的臥室和浴室相通。 useful

13、sentences and phrases communicate news 溝通情況 communicate a disease 傳染疾病 communicate a secret 告知秘密 we communicate by telephone. 我們通過電話聯(lián)系。 we integrate, you communicate. (三菱電工):我們集大成，您超越自我。 communicate nonverbally by telepathy. 不用語言、靠心靈感應(yīng)來交流。 communicate (with) in writing. 用書寫的方式來交流。,inter-互相；在之間,relat

14、ed words and phrases interactinterchange intercity intercom(內(nèi)部通話系統(tǒng))interrupt interdependentinterdisciplinary (跨學(xué)科的 ) interfuse/intermingleinterlocutor (對話者 ) intermedia (多種藝術(shù)手段)international interuniversityinterracial intersect (指線條、道路等相交, 交叉 ) interpret diplomatic/commercial intercourse外交/ 商務(wù)往來 an

15、intercontinental ballistic missile洲際彈道導(dǎo)彈 inter-parliamentary union 各國議會聯(lián)盟 inter-library loan 館際互借 inter-american development bank泛美開發(fā)銀行 inter-bank loan market同業(yè)拆借市場,take in (page 101 使上當(dāng) the salesman finds it easy to take in old ladies. 領(lǐng)會; 理解 i wonder if hes really taking it in. 接待; 收留 he had nowhe

16、re to go, so i took him in. my house is full; i cant take in any more guests. 吸入 the boat is taking in water! bbc cases: i would urge families to take in orphans whose parents have died of aids to comfort them instead of dismissing these innocent children. which newspaper do you take in?,symptom n.

17、page102,sign of the existence of sth. bad e.g.高利率是經(jīng)濟(jì)不景氣的征兆 high interest rates are a symptom of a weak economy. e.g. they regard the increase in crime as a symptom of a more general decline in moral standards. 2) change in the body that indicates an illness e.g. a cold, fever and headache are the us

18、ual symptoms of flu.,jar: have a harsh or an unpleasant effect(jar sth., jar on sb./sth.) page 102,you shouldnt have too many colors in a small space as the effect can jar. the loud bang jarred my nerves. 他的態(tài)度讓他們很吃驚。 his manner jars on them.,in sight page102,1)visible it was early in the morning and

19、 there wasnt anyone in sight on campus. 當(dāng)火車開進(jìn)車站時，我一下子看見父母站在月臺上。 as the train pulled into the station my parents standing on the platform were soon in sight. 2) likely to come soon two months passed, and victory was not yet in sight. the end of the economic nightmare is still nowhere in sight.,cue: a

20、nything that serves as a signal about what to do or say 提示，暗示 page 103(followed by to/for),when he started to talk about the finances, that was our cue to get up quietly and leave. 當(dāng)我點頭的時候，就是給你提示把樣品給客戶看。 when i nod my head, thats your cue to give flowers to him.,flee: run away (from) (flee from/to;

21、flee some place),the customers fled from the bank when the alarm sounded. during the war, thousands upon thousands of afghans fled the country. 共計5百萬政治難民逃到了國外。 up to five million political refugees have fled to other countries.,information age,when we say that we live in the information age, we mean

22、 thatwe live in a time when information is very important and easy to get. the information age is an era of fundamental and global change in intellectual, philosophical, cultural and social terms.,information age,todays information age began with the telegraph. it was the first instrument to transfo

23、rm information into electrical form and transmit it reliably over long distances. new techniques of encoding and distributing digital information are pacing the spread of the information age throughout society.,extra information popular vocabulary related to network,上網(wǎng) 網(wǎng)吧 網(wǎng)民 網(wǎng)友 網(wǎng)戀,get online, cyber

24、surfing, surf the net,cyber cafe, internet caf, net bar,netizen (net citizen), cyber citizen,cyber love (affair),cyber friend /buddy,cyber slacker : 喜歡在上班的時候使用工作單位的網(wǎng)絡(luò)做一些私人的事情 cybertourist: 平常沒有時間上網(wǎng)，只有在節(jié)假日的時候上網(wǎng)玩玩 newbie:網(wǎng)絡(luò)新手 net. god (net dot god): 網(wǎng)絡(luò)大蝦，對internet特別輕車熟路的人 hacker: 黑客 flamer: 有一些人則常常在bb

25、s，newsgroup或email里發(fā)送一些招人討厭的圖片或文件,spam，uce (unsolicited commercial email) junk email: 垃圾郵件 network pirate: 通過局域網(wǎng)(lan: local area network)騷擾同 學(xué)、同事、朋友 digital plagiarism: 抄襲別人的網(wǎng)頁上的內(nèi)容 網(wǎng)絡(luò)犯罪(internet crimes) : 包括利用互聯(lián)網(wǎng)監(jiān)視他人的活動 詐騙 (cyberfraud) 偷取信用卡 (credit card theft) 偷取身份 (identity theft),cultural notes,nb

26、c (the national broadcasting company): the first of the original three us national broad- casting companies. it was established in 1926 by radio corporation of america as two groups of radio stations. the first nbc television channel opened in 1940. the company is now owned by general electric. its

27、main offices are at rockefeller center in new york.,cultural notes,pbs (the public broadcasting service): (in the us) a television system that broadcasts programs to an association of local stations which use no television advertisements and do not make a profit. it was established by the public bro

28、adcasting act and is supported by money from the us government, large companies and the public. pbs is known for the high quality of its programs.,cultural notes,abc (the american broadcasting company): one of the original three major television networks in america. it began in 1943 as the blue netw

29、ork of six radio stations. abc is now owned by the walt disney company.,text organization,questions about the text,1.what is the main idea of text a? despite the many negative effects of virtual life, the author prefers it to real life. 2.what are the roles of the first paragraph and the last? the first paragraph tells about the consequences of living a virtual life and the last tells about the authors return to it. together, they show us the dilemma people are in at present: because of modern technology, we h