老师：Hello everyone. How is everything going? I'm Rebecca. Welcome to my class. Today we'll go on exploring Unit 2, looking into the future, and we will focus on reading for writing in this period. In this class, you will work out the content, structure and language features of the reading passage and write your opinion in an essay about the changes caused by new technology. Let's get started. With the development of science and technology. Our lives have been greatly changed. What's your point of view on new technology? What new devices or apps have you been using recently? Are they helpful or not? Please think for a while and then share your opinion.
老师：There's no doubt that we benefit a lot from new technology in many different ways. For example, we can shop online, play computer games and take online courses. Apart from this, new discoveries in medicine improve people's health which allows us to enjoy a longer life. We can also travel around the world by various transportation. However, just like a double edged sword, size can cause trouble too. Online cheating and cyber bullying become great concern. And most of the improvements in science are made at the cost of our precious natural resources and have done great harm to the environment. Therefore, how to deal with the process of science and technology properly is worth over careful consideration.
老师：In 2000,16 passenger dies when car crashes in driveless mode. These three breaking news caused a heated discussion over new technology. Should we fight new technology? Let's read a passage together to find answers, please take out our text ban and turn to pay twenty. You are expected to go through the passage quickly and find the main idea. Let's get started. Okay.
老师：Now, can you tell me the main idea of the passage? That's right. Is about the advantages and disadvantages of new technology and the author's own opinion. How does the author organize the information? In which paragraphs does the author describe the issue, give an opinion, discuss the advantages, discuss the disadvantages. Please read the passage carefully again to find out the structure. Let's go. Okay. Have you finished? What are the author mainly talk about in the first paragraph? Great.
老师：The author describes the issue in the first paragraph. He saw the shocking news in the morning. Passenger dies when car crashes in driveless mode. And various people said that the public should oppose the idea of developing driverless cars. And most of the advances in technology were unnecessary and could be even dangerous. Hence, we should cease accepting technology just because it is new. However, the car company still claimed that most people would be traveling in jobless cars one day soon. So that's the issue the author describes in
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