U校园新视野新视野大学英语1读写教程答案Units321.pdf

1. Traditional classroom: • Advantages: more direct communication between the teacher and students; a be er learning atmosphere. • Disadvantages: little interaction either among students or between students and the teacher; the teacher tending to dominate the class; writing on blackboard reducing efficiency. Multimedia learning: • Advantages: more vivid teaching materials; students better engaged in classroom learning. • Disadvantages: too many distractions with too many pictures and vid eos in multimedia classrooms. Studying online: • Advantages: being able to choose when and what you want to learn; easy access to the wide range of online information. • Disadvantages: making it easier for students to copy answers from the Internet; lack of face-to-face communication between the teacher and students; the possibility for students to develop Internet addiction. 2. • I prefer the multimedia way of learning. A multimedia classroom is vivid with teaching materials presented in differen ways: slides, pictures, and even movies. Compared with a traditional classroom, a multimedia classroom is more interesting. • To be frank, I prefer to study online. In this way I can manage my own time. I can have my own priorities and do things at my own pace. It is simply what I want. 3. • Yes. The Internet is indispensable in teaching and learning nowadays. It is hard to imagine what it would be like without the Internet. We would have no easy or quick way to learn abou the lates developmen of teaching and learning. We would miss the many interesting online courses; we couldn communicate effectively with teachers after class. We just cant afford to lose the Internet. • No. Teaching and learning had been carried out long before the Internet came into being. And people did just as well without the Internet or the computer. It is true that the Internet makes teaching and