Unit Four

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Unit Four

• The Virtual World
• Text A
• A Virtual Life

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Dictation For the past two weeks, other
participants of the Net Survival Contest and I
have been shut up in bare hotel rooms. Our only
link to the real world has been a computer that
is hooked up to the Internet. We have relied on
it, not only for food, bed sheets and other daily
necessities, but also to set up an e-business of
our own. Now complete the next paragraph Now it
is time for me to walk out into the light of day
again
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• Discussion
• What is virtual world and what is virtual life?
• How have computer and internet changed your
  life?
• What can people do on the internet?
• Some people prefer to live a life in contact with
  real things and real people, but others favor a
  virtual existence. Which life do you think is
  better?

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• Computer related words
• Combining forms/prefixesnoun
• virtual world, virtual community, virtual
  office, virtual life, virtual pet, virtual
  reality, cyber-interaction, cyberculture,
  cybernut, cyberpet, cyberspace, netwriter,
  netead, Webmaster, Web, page, website, Web TV,
  E-book, E-shopper, e-card, e-mail, e-journal,
  e-business, e-cash, e-commerce
• 2. Combining forms/ prefixesverb
• cybersurf, netsurf, websurf, email
• 3. Words with prefixes like cyber, net, etc
• cyberian, cyberphobia, cybernaut, netter,
  Webify, cyberize
• 4. Chipped words
• Netcast, Netiquette, Netizen, Netpreneur,
  Webcam, Webcasting, Webliogrophy, Webnomics,
  Webzine, E-tailing, e-zine.

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Text Organization
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• virtual--1.made, done, seen etc on the Internet
  or on a computer, rather than in the real world
• The website allows you to take a virtual tour of
  the art gallery.
• constructing virtual worlds
• --2. very nearly a particular thing
• Car ownership is a virtual necessity when you
  live in the country.
• Finding a cheap place to rent is a virtual
  impossibility in this area.

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• A secretarys clipped tone seems more rejecting
  than Id imagined it would be.
• --A secretarys quick and clear tone is even
  harder to accept than I had expected.
• clipped1. a clipped voice is quick and clear but
  not very friendly
• 2. --cut so that it is short and neat
• a neatly clipped hedge

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• We start to feel an aversion to outside forms of
  socializing.
• --we start to dislike the normal social forms in
  the real world.
• aversion--a strong dislike of something or
  someone
• aversion to
• Despite his aversion to publicity, Arnold was
  persuaded to talk to the press.
• have an aversion to something
• I have an aversion to housework.

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We have become the Net critics worst
nightmare. --we have got into a situation that
people who are against the Net called the most
dreadful situation.
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• I found myself sucked in by soap operas, or
  needing to keep up with the latest news and
  weather.
• --I found myself trapped in the things I am not
  interested in and not intend to get.
• suck--transitive to pull someone or something
  with great power and force into or out of a
  particular place
• suck something into something
• A bird was sucked into one of the jet's engines.
• something sucks
• spoken not polite used when you dislike something
  very much or think something is very bad
• If you ask me, the whole thing sucks.

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• be sucked in
• --to become involved in a situation, especially a
  bad situation, when you do not want to
• The US has no intention of getting sucked into
  another war in Europe.
• suck up
• --to say or do a lot of nice things in order to
  make someone like you or to get what you want -
  used to show disapproval
• suck up to
• He's always sucking up to the boss.

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• I dont realize that Im projecting
• --I dont realize that I am thinking on my own
  position instead of others.
• project--?FEELING?to imagine that someone else is
  feeling the same emotions as you
• project something on/onto somebody
• You're projecting your insecurity onto me.
• --to make the picture of a film, photograph etc
  appear in a larger form on a screen or flat
  surface
• She projected the slide onto the wall.
• -- to try to make other people have a particular
  idea about you
• I hope the team will project a smart,
  professional image .
• his attempts to project himself as a potential
  leader

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• misinterpreting his intentions because of the
  lack of emotional cues given by our typed
  dialogue.
• --misunderstanding his words because we dont
  have enough emotional signals used in our typed
  dialogue online.
• cue--an action or event that is a signal for
  something else to happen
• Our success was the cue for other companies to
  press ahead with new investment.
• I think that's my cue to explain why I'm here.
• --a word, phrase, or action in a play that is a
  signal for the next person to speak or act
• She stood nervously in the wings waiting for her
  cue. miss your cue (not speak or act when you
  are supposed to)
• --(right/as if) happening or done at exactly the
  right moment
• on cue
• And then, on cue, the weather changed. As if on
  cue, Sam arrived.

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• The fight takes hours, because the system keeps
  crashing.
• --The fight lasts for hours because the system
  keeps out of order.
• crash--?COMPUTER?intransitive and transitive if
  a computer crashes, or if you crash the computer,
  it suddenly stops working
• The system crashed and I lost three hours' worth
  of work.
• --?FINANCIAL?intransitive if a stock market or
  shares crash, they suddenly lose a lot of value
• --?SPORT?intransitive British English to lose
  very badly in a sports event
• Liverpool crashed to their worst defeat of the
  season.

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• dogged--dogged behavior shows that you are very
  determined to continue doing something
• In the end we succeeded, through dogged
  determination plus a bit of good luck.
• The dogged persistence of the police finally paid
  off when Hooper told them what he knew.
• Fortunately the dogged good sense of the ordinary
  man is far from dead.
• His dogged refusal to countenance devaluation
  ensures the economic failure of a future Labour
  government.

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