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Unit 8
An Interactive Life
Teaching Points
? I,Background information
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions for discussion
I,Background Information
? 1,Broadway
? 2,Peter Jennings
? 3,Newsweek
II,Introduction to the Passage
? 1,Type of literature:
? -- a piece of exposition
Introduction to the Passage
? 2,The purpose of a piece of exposition,
to inform of explain
? 3,Ways of developing the thesis of a
piece of exposition:
? --comparison,contrast,analogy,
identification,illustration,analysis,
definition,etc,
Introduction to the Passage
? 4,The central thought or thesis
III, Effective Writing Skills
? 1,making effective use of specific verbs
? 2,using elliptical and short,simple
sentences to achieve certain effect
IV, Rhetorical Devices
? 1,metaphor
? 2,simile
V,Text Analysis
VI, Special Difficulties
? 1,Paraphrasing some sentences
? 2,Some computer terms
VII, Questions for Discussion
? 1,What will an interactive life of the future
be like? Describe some of its possible features,
? 2,Why should a person step into the past to
get an idea of what the future might bring?
? 3,How would Peter Jennings become
obsolete?
? 4,What is called,fake interactive”?
? 5,Why would video telephony mean an end
of anonymous phone calls?
VIII,Exercises
? P.