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1、 Read and ExploreUnit 2 Man and TechnologyGet StartedListen and RespondOptional Classroom ActivitiesEnhance YourLanguageAwareness新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started3Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes Work in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions.1. What changes have taken place
2、 in our life with the advancement of technology? 2. Do you think technology makes your life easier? Could you give some examples?3. Is the advancement of technology always a good thing?Get Started- discussion新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started4DiscussionQuotes Watching and DiscussionQuotes 1Study
3、 the following quotes about man and technology and discuss in pairs what you can learn from them. 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started5DiscussionQuotes Watching and DiscussionQuotes 1The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac As
4、imov Interpretation: This quote tells us that knowledge is not wisdom. Knowledge alone does not necessarily make us wiser. Although science has brought about a rapid growth in knowledge, todays society has not witnessed any corresponding increase in wisdom. And what we are in desperate need of today
5、 is wisdom rather than scientific knowledge, for knowledge helps us make a living while wisdom helps us make a life. Click Picture新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started6DiscussionQuotes Watching and DiscussionQuotes 2Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
6、 Erich Fromm Interpretation: This quote questions the rigidity of the formal educational systems. Machines are often considered as being controlled by others and have no individual thoughts. This quote indicates that the formal educational system controls the development of students and washes away
7、the individual creativity.Click Picture新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started7DiscussionQuotes Watching and DiscussionquotesInterpretation: According to Marx, under capitalism, overproduction leads to economic crises and unemployment. The production of too many useful things results in too many usel
8、ess people. Karl Marx Click Picture新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started8DiscussionQuotes Watching and DiscussionquotesInterpretation: Advances in science and technology have given birth to many things once only dreamed of.It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are t
9、he hopes of today, and the realities of tomorrow. Robert H. Goddard Click Picture新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started9Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes Inception is a 2010 science fiction thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb,
10、 a professional thief who commits corporate espionage（商业间谍业间谍 ）by infiltrating（潜入）the subconscious of his targets. He is assigned a task considered to be impossible: “inception”, the implantation of another persons idea into a targets subconscious.新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started10Watching and
11、 DiscussionDiscussionQuotes Watch the following video clip “Inception” and then complete the tasks that follow:click hereClick here新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started11Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes video1.Fill in the missing words according to what you hear from the video clip. You crea
12、te the world of the dream. Youll bring the subject , and then they feel it in their subconscious. How could you enough detail to make him think thats reality? Our dreams. We while were in them. Its only when we that we realize something actually strange. May I ask you a question? You never really re
13、member the beginning of your dreams, do you? You always right in the middle of whats going on. into that dreamever requirefeel real wake upwind up_ _videoclick hereClick here新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Unit 2Get Started12Watching and DiscussionDiscussionQuotes video2.Discuss the topic with your group membe
14、rs: Are you afraid that technology may destroy human civilization? Share your opinion with your peers. (Open.)Click hereUnit 2Listen and Respond13Word BankTask One Task Two 新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4evolve v. develop gradually by a long continuous process （使）演变； （使）进化shuttle n. a spacecraft that can be u
15、sed more than once 航天飞机prolong vt. make longer; lengthen 延长，拉长，拖长 Listen and Respond Word BankUnit 2Listen and Respond14Task One Word Bank新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）综合教程4Task Two Choose the best answer to each of the following questions according to the information contained in the listening passage. L even if, even though; whether.or.; no matter+疑问词，疑问词-ever，regardless of+名词/名 词短语/名词从句，despite，in spite of。1、though, although表示“虽然，纵然”之意。这两个连词意思大致相同，在 一般情况下可以互换使用。在口语
