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Reading:

TV and audio devices: a review
Questionnaire:
1.Do you have a MP3?
  Yes           No

2.Do you always take it with you
  even at school?
  Always     Sometimes     Never

3.Do you agree to take MP3 at shool?
  Yes           No

4.How long do you spend listening to
 your MP3 a day?
  More than 2 hours
  About 1 hours       Below 30 mins.
       TV and audio devices: a review
Reading strategy: understanding subtitles
 Subtitles appear after titles and give
 you more information about the text
 than the titles.
    TV             Early history of TV
(In order of time) The modern age: cable TV,
                   satellite TV, digital TV
                           Early history of
   Audio devices           audio devices
(By types of equipment) Tape recorders and
                          players
                          Sound goes digital
 First reading: read the text and finish
 Part A on P2
• 1. When did regular public TV
  broadcasting?
 It began on 11 May 1928 in New York
 and in London on 20 Agugust 1929.

• 2. What is WebTV?
 It is the TV set combined with the
 World Wide Web.

• 3. What was invented in 1954?
 The cassette recorder.
Careful reading:Read the
text again and complete
Parts C1 and C2.
C1:True or false exercises
1. Thomas Edison made the first recording
   of a human voice.
2. Until 1972, most people used black-and-
   white TV.
3. Satellite TV is delivered with greater
   Digital TV
   clarity than digital TV.
                  satellite TV
4. The first record player was invented
   before 1877.
   after
5. Transistor technology was first used to
      for military programmes, and then to
   receive radio use
   develop cassette recorders.
6. CDs were invented about ten years before the
   MD player was invented.
7. MP3 technology began in Germany in 1987.
C2: Fill in the form
Year                                       Event
1877 First recording of a human voice was made
        First public showings of wireless TV transmissions were made in the USA.
1925
1948 Cable TV began in the USA; 3 American scientists invented
        the transistor.
1951 Colour broadcasts began in the USA.
1954 Invention of transistor led to the development of cassette recorders.
1958 First LPs(long-play records) came onto the market.
1962 Satellites began to be used to broadcast TV.
1982 First CDs produced by using digital technology were made available.
1987 Development of MP3 technology started in Germany.
1989 International standards for digital TV were established.
1992 Development of MD player began.
            First WebTV set-top boxes came onto the market.
Part D: Match the following words with
 1. reviewthe correct definitions.
                      e
                     ___   a. able to be carried
 2. uncertain         d
                     ___   b. asking for sth, firmly
                           c. a written list of questions for
 3. superior                  finding information or opinions
                      h
                     ___
                           d. not sure, feeling doubt about sth
 4. questionnaires         e. a report on sth. that shows a
                      c
                     ___
                              sequence of events
 5. wound up               f. a paper that proves you are the
                      g
                     ___
                              only person or company able to
 6. patent            f
                              produce a certain product.
                     ___
                           g. made to move around itself or
 7. portable          a
                     ___
                              sth.
                              else.
 8. demanding         b
                     ___   h. better
Part E:Fill in the blanks with words given in the box.
 broadcasting Germany households recording 200
 recorders      wireless compact     Britain     65
I was really surprised to find out that the first public
                      wireless
showings of (1)__________ TV transmissions took
place way back in 1925. It took another three years
                                                  broadcasting
before there are any regular public(2)____________,
first in the USA and in the following year in (3)______. Britain
Personally,I think people must have found it quite
a delight when colour TV was first broadcast in 1929.
                                          65
However, within the next (4)_________ years, people
would be able to choose what to match from a variety
            200
of (5)_________ different channels because of cable
TV. It is reported that in 1998, 66 per cent of
     households
(6)____________ in the USA had cable TV.
The other information I got was about the
evolution of audio devices, starting with
                                  recording
Thomas Edison’s first (7)__________, then
moving on to different kinds of tape
     recorders
(8)__________ and finally CDs (meaning
     compact
(9)__________ discs), which were introduced
in the 1980s. I was also really surprised to
                    Germany
learn that (10)___________ was the birthplace
of MP3, not Japan or the USA as I had
Assumed they would be. These things all
bring great convenience and delight to
people’s lives.
 Discussion:
• 1.More and more people are using
  computers for information and
  entertainment. Do you think we will
  still need books and TVs in the
  future? Why or why not?

• 2.What are the possible
  disadvantages of having a lot of
  technology in our lives?
      Homework

1.Finish A1, A2 on P 102.
2.Preview word power.