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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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