Step 2 Checking preview
Step 3 Reading strategies 1
What do you think is the best way to get the most important information in such a long passage?
Follow the chronological order.
P4 C2
• 1887—Emile Berliner invented a record player that used discs to record on.
• 1925—The first public TV broadcasts were made, in the USA.
• 1929—Regular public broadcasting began in London.
• 1938—The first colour TV programme was broadcast.
• 1962—Satellites were used to broadcast TV.
• 1967—Regular colour TV broadcasts began in the UK.
• 1982—The first CDs were made available.
• 1993—The VCD was born.
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Times sure have changed!
• Transitive verbs are verbs that take an object. Intransitive verbs do not take an object.
Step 2 Discovering more
Read through P8 and try to find out more differences between them.
• 1. An American, Philo Farnsworth, made important breakthroughs in the development of the TV in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
• 2. It was not until the early 1950s that most tape recorders began using plastic tape as they do today.
• 3. Who can foresee what the future will bring?
• The object can be a noun, a pronoun, an infinitive, a verb-ing or an object clause.
动词的种类
动词的种类比较复杂，大致可以根据其在句子中的功用分为及物动词与不及物动词，连系动词介乎二者之间。
及物动词和不及物动词(Transitive and intransitive verbs)
1. 及物动词要求有直接宾语。如：John Ford himself opened the door to me.
