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Examples: We gave Wang credit for his remarkable achievements in biotechnology. Tim Berners-Lee should be given credit for the creation of WWW. Credit should go to Frank for the team’s success.

2. …access to the Internet— the opportunity to use the Internet. Access meaning “the means or opportunity or right to use or see something” is followed by the preposition to.

The internet itself is of no harm nor benefit. It is the uses to which it is applied that determine its value.
III Language points


1. It turns out you can “enquire” about nearly anything…— It happens that you can ask about almost anything… Turn out meaning “happen to be, or be found to be” is usually followed by a noun or an adjective. It may also be followed by a that clause.

Me: Girl, let’s fall in love! Lonely girl: Good. After all, I can fall in love. Me: Well, didn’t you love someone before? Lonely girl: No. They always said I was a dinosaur. Me: Umm, in this case, we’d better break up at the moment. Lonely girl: No, I don’t agree. It’s my first love… 55555555555… Now the last girl left, I would especially cherish her. Me: Girl, don’t you want to fall in love with me? Jiaojiao: I think it’s OK, but I’d like to ask for my father’s advice. Me: My God! You asked your father this kind of thing? You surely don’t have your own definite idea! Jiaojiao: It’s not like that. I am just 5 years old and haven’t learnt to type. It is my father who types for me. Me: … Then I said: Hello, uncle.

4. It started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. Of all places, of all things, or of all people are used to suggest that a particular place, thing, or person seems surprising or unlikely when there are many other places where something might happen, many other things which might be expected to be done, or many other people who might be present or be doing something.


6. keep track of all the random associations one comes across… Keep track of means “keep oneself informed about something” or “pay attention to something so that one knows what is happening.”
Teaching Tasks and Process

I. Pre-reading questions

How do you think of the internet. Is it conducive or detrimental to university students as well as to the whole society?


Example: We read newspapers every day to keep track of current events. The opposite of keep track of is lose track of. Example: We’ve lost track of him since he left Shanghai for home. Random means “unplanned, unintentional, aimless, purposeless, etc.”



Examples: Of all places, they went vacationing in an unknown village. Of all things, she bought an ordinary bowl as a souvenir. I can’t understand why she, of all people, should speak to us about how to use the computer.




Examples: Mark is very smart. He can deal with (handle) all kinds of difficult situations. Recently I read an article which dealt with (concerned / was concerned with) the latest developments in computer science. Be cautious about what kind of business firms you deal with (do business with).




Examples: While everyone was discussing the question seriously, John made a few random remarks now and then. He was whiling away his time by putting down some random thoughts on paper. At random is used adverbially. Examples: He put the books on the bookshelves at random (i.e., without putting them in any order). She chose a number of books at random to lend to her neighbor.
新编英语教程4
For your promising future
Unit Five
Objectives


1. to get familiar with ways of making introduction to a celebrity. 2. to grasp the usage of the words such as turn out to be, access and cash in on.

5. … that dealt with information in a “brainlike” way —that handled information in the way as the brain does. Deal with is used in different ways with different meanings.


Examples: Much to his disappointment, his experiment turned out a failure. After a long spell of rain, it turned out to be fine and sunny on the day of our sports meet. It turned out that the unexpected visitor was one of my mother’s former students.


Examples: In a university library, we have access to large numbers of academic books. In our country every child has access to education.

3. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb—Thomas Edison received recognition for the light bulb. Credit for something is the recognition or respect or praise given to someone because of something they have done or achieved.