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课件网) Module 9 Great inventions 外研九年级上册 Module 9 Unit 2 Will books be replaced by the Internet How long has it been used It’s been used for more than 50 years. Who invented it It was invented by Americans. When was it invented It was invented in 1946. What can it be used for It can be used for … Free talk Warming up Do you use computers How often do you use computers How do you get information Reading books Or surfing the Internet Do you think books will be replaced by the Internet Warming up Work in pairs. Read the title of the passage in Activity 2. Discuss and make a list of the advantages of books and the Internet. Reading and vocabulary 01 Books are inexpensive. Books can go with you anywhere and be read everywhere. Books can help you keep your brains sharp. … You can get information quickly. You can get a great amount of information at a time. The machine is smaller and lighter. … Advantages of books Advantages of the Internet Reading and vocabulary Read the passage and match the main ideas with the paragraphs. The world before printed books The world after the invention of printing Life with paper and printing Technology and books The future of books 1 2 3 4 5 02 Reading and vocabulary Will books be replaced by the Internet Every morning, my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day, I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or printing Reading and vocabulary 2 Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago in China. After its invention, people started to write on paper to make books. In those days, books were only produced one at a time by hand. As a result, there were not many books, and they were expensive. So, few people had the chance to learn to read. Reading and vocabulary 3 Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, developments in printing made it possible to produce books more quickly and cheaply. A trade in books resulted, and more people learnt to read. Knowledge and ideas spread faster than ever before. In a way, we can compare the invention of paper and printing to the introduction of the Internet in the twentieth century. Reading and vocabulary 4 Although the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast, and may become more powerful than printing. A much larger amount of information can be stored in more varied forms on the Internet than in books. Someone with an Internet connection can find information much more easily than they can find it in printed forms. And the machines we use to read it are now small and light, often smaller and lighter than a single book. Reading and vocabulary 5 Computers and the Internet are used in classrooms now, and newspapers and magazines are already read online. So what directi ... ...
