Chapter 4 Computer Technology

[課堂學習]
 i duty report and everyday english.
 ii words dictation
iii homework checking and group learning
預習情況檢查與交流。（小組討論，老師點撥）

iv pre-reading
1. read the phrases.
2. game: who can read best?（revise the words and phrases.）
3. finish ex. c1 and c2.

iv while-reading
1. read the passage again and choose the right words to complete the passage.
 tiny, type, hardly, operate, print, unaware, cleverer, better, being, lives, future, judges
 
not so many years ago, we could ________ ever see computers. but now they are everywhere. there are __________, hidden computers in your home, but you might be __________ of them.
computers can do a lot of things. they can calculate, ________, _________ and draw. more importantly, they can __________ railways and fly planes and spaceships.
a computer is not __________ than a man for the time _______. in the _________, they many even be ________ at doing their jobs than doctors, __________ and teachers. they will change our ________.

2. language points.
1) not many years ago, you hardly ever saw computers.
  hardly ever: seldom
 他的房間很骯臟因為他幾乎沒有打掃過。
 ex. his room is very dirty because he ___________________________________.
tony is a good student and he hardly ever ___________________________.
(gets late/ sleeps in class/ talks in class/ throws rubbish on the floor...)
2) you are more dependent on computers than you realize.
  be dependent on: 依賴，依靠
ex. 年輕人不應該總是依賴父母。
________________________________________________________________
  realize: understand
ex. sometimes, we don’t ________ _________ ________ our parents love us.
         有時候，我們沒有意識到父母有多愛我們。
       he ____________ his mistake and ________  ________ _______ his parents.
     他認識到自己的錯誤，并向父母道了歉。
3) ..., but you don’t be unaware of them.
   be unaware of: don’t know about
     ex. the mouse was unaware of the cat coming.
     = ___________________________________________________________.
4) they are faster at calculating than people.
  =_____________________________________________________________
  in the future, they may even be better at doing their jobs than doctors.
be better at doing sth. 在…（方面）做得更好
ex. people _______ ________  _____  __________  than ______________.
人在創造力方面（creating）要勝過電腦。