Teaching Objectives To get students imagine and describe the future world To understand the purpose of writing and organization of the text To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises
The nature of language A definition: Language is human speech; the ability to communicate by this means; a system of vocal sounds and combinations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed, used for the expression or communication of thoughts and feelings; the written representation of such a system. (Webster's New World Dictionary)
Purposes 1. To get students make full and good use of computers. 2. To understand the purpose of writing. 3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises
Assignment Reading Model-based Diagnosis-Lecture notes Propositional Logic AIMA Chapter 6 Problem set Model-based Diagnosis implementation Propositional Logic 16.413: Hello World implementation Due Monday, November 17th
he World's Largest-Capacity 8kV/3.6kA Light-Triggered Thyristor by Katsumi sato* Mitsubishi Electric has developed an 8kV/3.6kA light-triggered thyristor (LTT) based on a six inch wafer for power-converter applications in igh-voltage DC transmission and back-to-back systems. New design features give the device
UN/T 3 TEXT A PRE-READING QUESTIONS 1.Can you tell us something about Stevie Wonder according to our text? 2.What does the title mean? 3. What do you think of his accomplishment? ANSWER TO QUESTION (1) ? pop star/ born blind/ black/ poor family/ love music ? learn to play instruments very quickly/has been recording artist since the age of ten ? being an adult,encounter serious car accident/fight back from the shadow of death begin to pay more attention to the world outside/bring sunshine
