(课件网) UNIT 10 CONNECTIONS LESSON 1 HOW CLOSELY CONNECTED ARE WE 北师大版高中英语选择性必修第四册 HOW CLOSELY CONNECTED ARE WE ACTIVATE AND SHARE How many contacts do you have on social media How many people do you regularly communicate with Activity 1 ACTIVATE AND SHARE Read the first two paragraphs of the article on the theory“Six Degrees of Separation”. What does it mean and who invented this theory Activity 2 It states that any person on Earth can be connected to any other person through a chain of no more than five other people. The theory was first introduced by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy，in the early 20th century. Read the rest of the article. Find out about the development of the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory. Take notes in the table below. Then talk about how the theory developed based on your notes. Activity 3 1967 Mid-1990s Who How Findings/ Results Stanley Milgram He chose a random sample of people in the middle of America and asked them to send packages to a stranger in the state of Massachusetts. It only took between five and seven people to get the parcels delivered. Two college students in the United States They invented a game. The idea of the game was to link any actor to Kevin Bacon，a famous American actor and musician，through no more than six links. They game was being played in universities across the United States. Read the rest of the article. Find out about the development of the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory. Take notes in the table below. Then talk about how the theory developed based on your notes. Activity 3 2001 2011 Who How Findings/ results Columbia University The“Columbia Small-world Project”：Columbia University tried to recreate Milgram’s experiment on the Internet. The experiment involved 24，163 email chains with 18 target people in 13 different countries. The results confirmed that the average number of links in the chain was six. University of Milan The experiment analysed the relationship between 721 million social media users. 92% were connected by only four stages. Group Work Read the article again. Take turns to explain the “Six Degrees of Separation” theory. Use the diagram to help you. Activity 4 Group Work Think and share. 1 Why did Milgram and Columbia University both label their experiments “Small-world” 2 Why do you think people study how people are connected Activity 5 Because they believed that any person on Earth could be connected to any other person through a chain of no more than five other people. In this sense the world is small. Probably people want to study the structures of human society，the rules of human social activities，and how people are connected with each other. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words. Activity 6 random sociologist network publish package chain 1 In 1967，a called Stanley Milgram did an experiment to find out how many degrees o ... ...
