Unit1 Living with technology.

Project Project

高二选修 7

Project

Making a list of pros and cons

Project

Making a list of pros and cons

Lead-in questions

1. How many of you have a mobile phone?

2. Why do you use mobile phones?

3. Can you list some functions of mobile phones?

Different functions of mobile phones

making a phone call

taking photos

listening to music

Surfing the Internet

sending short messages

Mobile phones have become part of people’s life and do bring us lots of advantages,but there have been an argument about the safety of using them for many years. What’s your idea on this issue? Do you think the use of mobile phones is dangerous or not? Why?

Now let’s read a newspaper article about the possible negative effects of mobile phone use on people’s health.

Reading strategy

a newspaper article

the title

the first paragraph

Read the title and the first paragraph carefully and answer the following questions.What might be the writer’s attitude towards mobile phone use? Why do you think so?

He might be worried about the use of mobile phones because he says, ‘Scientists have recently provide uswith some worrying findings.’

Main points Supporting details

Now let’s read the article and find out the main ideas of the article to fill the following form.

1. Using a mobile phone doubles

the risk of developing brain cancer.

2. Digital mobile phones are an actual danger.

3. The reasons why there is no definite

scientific evidence available now

about the effects of mobile phones

on people’s health.

Main points

• Main point 1:

• Using a mobile phone doubles the risk of developing brain cancer.

• Supporting details

• The report is based on the findings of research that was carried o

ut in Sweden, comparing 1,617 patients found to have brain tumo

urs between 1997 and 2003 with the same number of healthy peo

ple.

• Main point 2

• Digital mobile phones are an actual danger.

• Supporting details:

• The study, conducted with 200 mice, of which half were exposed

to radiation while the other half did not receive any radiation,

shows that the first half were found to have more than twice the

cancer rate of the second half after eighteen months.

• Main point 3

• The reasons why there is no definite scientific evidence available

now about the effects of mobile phones on people’s health.

• Supporting details:

• Enormous profit from the telecommunications industry prevents

the bad results of findings from being exposed.

• Read the article again. Ask questions about the places that you do not understand.

Questions

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