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Unit 1 of Module 7 Project
Making a list of advantages and disadvantages
Learning Aims: By the end of the class, the students will be able to master the meanings and usages of some words and phrases.
Learning procedures:
Part One－Self-exploration
I. Remember the following important phrases.
1. 一个基督教团体
2. 引进技术
3. 电力公司
4. 面对面地
5. 对……方便
6. 通过电话线
7. 那么重要8. 专心致志于
9. 打断谈话10. 短消息
11. 专注于12. 额外地
13. 使……摆脱14. 电子装置
15. 事实上16. 反对拥有电话II. Fast reading.
1. Which group of people are talked about?
_______________________________________________________
2. What do you know about this group of people?
_______________________________________________________
3. Why do they reject most modern technology?
_______________________________________________________
III. Enjoy the following sentences, fill in each blank with a proper word, and then translate them into Chinese orally.
1.In the USA, the Amish—________ ________ ________(一个基督教团体) —are famous because they drive carriages ________ _________ cars, do not use TVs or refrigerators, and do not have ________ _________(私人电话).
2.________ _________(实际上)，________ (无论何时) a new technology is ________ (被引进), the Amish meet and discuss its ________ ________ _________(优点和缺点).
3.________ (由于)the Amish ________ ________ ________ _________ ________ _________(重视面对面的交流), they ________ ________ _________(反对拥有电话) in their houses.
4.Then, when you ________ ________ _________ (专注于) a book or simply trying to rest, the phone ________ _________ ________ _________ _________(似乎总是响个不停), ________ _________ peace you might have(打破了你本来可以享有的一切安宁).
5.Maybe we should throw all of our phones into the dustbin, ________ ________ （连同）
our cars and TVs ________ _________ _________(额外地).
6.Maybe we should ________ ourselves ________ （摆脱）modern technology and return to simpler times.
Title To phone or not to phone?
(1) ___________
to the Amish way of life In the USA, the Amish are famous because they don’t use any
(2)_________technology such as TVs, private telephones. They think phones are not their (3) __________and dislike dealing with strangers.
(4)_________ of the telephone ·There is something important about staying (5)_________ and sharing life not found over a telephone wire.
·(6)_________
_ the circumstances are, when the telephone rings ,everything is interrupt ed.
Real relationships are often (7)__________ , and whatever personal peac e one has is destroyed whenever the phone rings.
Possible (8)_________ to the use of phones Maybe we should (9)_________ away all of our phones into the dustbin. Maybe we should (10) _______ away from modern technology.
V. Summary.
In the USA there is a famous (1) _______ group who drive carriages instead of cars and do not use TVs, refrigerators. It’s (2) ________that the Amish must have religious reason,（3）_______ is not true. The fact is that whenever a new technology is introduced, the Amish get together and discuss the advantages and disadvantages. And as the Amish value seeing each other (4) __________, they are (5) _________ to having telephones in their houses.
It is (6)_______for most people to communicate through telephones but maybe the Amish have a (7)___________opinion. First of all, There is something important about being together and sharing life that can’t be (8)_________ through a telephone wire. Secondly, no matter what the (9)_________ are, when the phone rings, everything stops so that the call can be answered. In addition, real relationships are often (10) ___________ and the personal peace is destroyed.
