《Information Technology》Lesson1 Avatars PPT
第一部分內(nèi)容：Period 1
Brainstorm
Look at the screenshot of our WeChat group, describe your avatar and share the reason why you use it.
Example:
I use____________ as my avatar in order to/ because_____________________________.
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Prediction
What would you like to learn about avatars?
Write down your questions.
Discussion and Deep Thinking
Why do people obviously make their avatars look better than they do in real life?
Do you agree with the writer that “the avatar you choose says a lot about your personality”? Give examples to support your opinion.
Are there any risks of using avatars? Any examples?
How should we use avatars in a safer and healthier way on the Internet? Any suggestions?
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Homework
Create an avatar for one of the students/teachers in our class. Introduce it next time.
Who would you give it to?
What does it look like?
Why did you decide to create it this way?
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Information Technology PPT，第二部分內(nèi)容：Period 2
Review and Practice
Complete the short text with information from the reading. The answers can be one word or more.
Avatars are digital 1__________ that you use to represent yourself online. You can choose an avatar from 2_____________of ready-made images, or 3________________________. Although avatars haven’t been around for long, they are widely used.
Avatars let you 4______________ and give you 5______________________. But the use of avatars has also caused 6________. Some users worry that they are spending too much time 7______________ that they are becoming afraid of meeting people in the real world. The use of several avatars can also be 8_____, as people can use avatars to 9_________________. However, many people see avatars in 10___________________.
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Language Learning
Work in pairs and ask the following questions about the change of avatars. Write down the answers from the text:
1) In the past, like the 1980s, what was people’s prediction about future avatars?
2) When people started creating avatars, what was their plan?
3) Since when did people start to have more than one avatar?
1)Yet very few people knew that future avatars would have such a wide variety of forms and uses.
2)When people started creating their own avatars, they discovered that they were going to have the power to create new identities that did not look or act like their real selves at all.
3)Also, many Internet users realized that their avatars would be seen by many people, not just their friends.
Form: _____________________
Function:_____________________________________
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Language in Use
Think about what changes has technology brought to our lives. Make a list of four changes in groups and describe the changes by using past future tense.
Example: In the past, I never thought that we would …
Complete the following sentences using past future tense.
In the 1990s, few people knew that _________________________________________.
When computers were invented, it was believed that ____________________________________.
In the past few years, users of smartphones realised that ____________________________________.
The convenience of the Internet made Internet users discover that _______________________.
When avatars first appeared in the 1980s, few people believed that ___________________________.
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Creative Writing
Suppose you were at the age of ten, how would you fancy your life in the future with the help of technology? Complete the story by using past future tense.
Example: When I was ten, I believed that any one who could use a computer would become the most intelligent person in the future. I fancied that I would have a beeper , like the one my father had. I thought that I was going to buy a robot to help with my homework and exams.
Homework
Writing— “_______ in the past, present and future”. You can also use past future tense to show the changes.
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