1、Learn to read some charts about Internet use; Practice listening by finishing A1, A2; 1. Do you often use the Internet? How about your parents? 2. In which way do you usually access the Internet, using a mobile device or other devices? 3. What do you often do on the Internet? Listening skills 1. Rea
2、d before you listen. 听前预读听前预读 2. Catch the key words. 抓关键词抓关键词 3. Take notes quickly. 快速笔记快速笔记 4. Be in a good mood. 心态良好心态良好 A Mr Tan, an IT teacher, is giving a brief introduction to the Internet. Listen and finish the exercises below. Focus on key words Do not try to catch every word. Instead, li
3、sten for key words and phrases. You should focus on getting the main idea, not on single words or grammar. 1. What does Mr Tan mainly talk about in his introduction to the Internet? 2. How many computers were connected in the beginning? 3. What did scientists around the world originally use the Inte
4、rnet as? 4.What did Tim Berners-Lee teach others to do? A1 Listen to the talk and answer the following questions. Be careful when listening for years: it is normal to treat the first two numbers and the last two numbers separately, but there are various ways of saying them. In general, speakers try
5、to use the shortest way possible, for example, 1979 (nineteen eventy-nine), 2003 (two thousand and three), 1805 (eighteen o five). Sometimes we add mid- before a certain year, e.g. mid-2008. We also use expressions like the early / late 1980s. Listening for years Listening material B Mr Tan also sho
6、ws the students some charts about Internet use. View the charts below and answer the questions. There are different types of charts to show information. Bar charts are often used to show how something changes over time or to compare different things. Pie charts are used to show percentages. Line cha
7、rts are often used to show trends. To understand a chart, it is important to read the title and captions. Viewing charts 1. According to the first chart, which use of the Internet has increased the most during the last five years? Travel booking. As can be seen/conveyed/illustrated/reflected from th
8、e bar chart, over the past five years, the number of people using the Internet for news /search engines/instant messaging / shopping /payment /travel booking has risen /increased from 65% to 82%, from 92% to 98%, from 80% to 90%, from about 39% to 61%, from about 31% to 61%, from about 8% to 40% res
9、pectively. 2. What change can you see from the two pie charts? More and more people use mobile devices to access the Internet. As can be reflected from the pie charts, over the past five years, the number of users who access the Internet using mobile devices have risen/increased from 69% to 95%, whi
10、le the percentage of users who access the Internet without using mobile devices has dropped/decreased from 31% to 5%. 3. In the last chart, what change do you notice in the Internet users above 59? There are more Internet users above 59 now. As can be conveyed from the chart, over the past five years, the number of Internet users has been increasing in most age groups, but the 20-39 age group has decreased by about 10%. Plan your report.
