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UNIT 2
THE INTERNET
LEAD-IN
1 Work in small groups. Draw up a diagram of using the Internet.
Share your ideas with the rest of the class.
2 Answer the questions.
· What does the Internet mean to you?
· What do you use the Internet for?
· What are the positive and negative aspects of the
Internet?
READING
3 Look at the title of the text and try to guess what ideas are expressed in
it. Scan the text and find out why the Internet is called a big picture.
4 Read the text more carefully. Seven paragraphs have been removed.
Decide which paragraphs (A-G) fit the gaps (1-6), there is one extra
paragraph.
THE BIG PICTURE
The Internet, or the Net as it’s often called, is a
real bag of tricks. You can find an answer to any
question, shop the globe, send documents worldwide
in a flash, hear new music, dabble in the stock market,
visit art galleries, read books, play games, video chat
with far-away relatives, make friends with similar
interests, catch up on your latest hometown news,
make phone calls, grab free software, manage your
bank account - or just fritter away your spare time
surfing the almost infinite content of the Web.
1.
The Internet consists of millions of computers connected via cables and radio
waves. At the core of this giant network are a series of computers permanently
joined together through high-speed connections. To connect to the Net, you
simply connect your computer to any one of these networked computers via an
Internet Service Provider (ISP). The moment you do this, your computer itself
becomes part of the Internet. Of course, the Net is not really about the
computers or the cables and satellites that string them together. It's about
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