Outlining -- the Standard Topic Outline Form
1. General Comprehension: True or False Questions.
(1)
We would feel deaf and blind if we were to live in the Middle Ages, because of the lack of communication.
(2)
Satellites and microelectronics have enabled us to do anything we want to in the field of communication.
(3)
In the future there will be no local calls because there will be no cities or countries.
(4)
Voices from the Sky is a book written by the speaker.
(5)
The speaker is very sure that English will be the world language in the future.
(6)
According to the speaker, people will transport more for pleasure than for work.
2. Suggested abbreviations:
general: gen. microelectronics: microel.
3. Note-taking: Make an outline for the second part of the lecture you have heard on the tape.
Outlining—the Standard Topic Outline Form
1. General Comprehension: True or False Questions.
(1)
We would feel deaf and blind if we were to live in the Middle Ages, because of the lack of communication.
(2)
Satellites and microelectronics have enabled us to do anything we want to in the field of communication.
(3)
In the future there will be no local calls because there will be no cities or countries.
(4)
Voices from the Sky is a book written by the speaker.
(5)
The speaker is very sure that English will be the world language in the future.
(6)
According to the speaker, people will transport more for pleasure than for work.
2. Suggested abbreviations:
general: gen. microelectronics: microel.
3. Note-taking: Make an outline for the second part of the lecture you have heard on the tape.
1. Gen. vision:
(1) 1 revolution in our time
(2) next or final:
a. result of satellites & microel.
b. transfer: sound, vision, all sense impressions
2. Specific:
(1) TV: a. broadcast via satellites
b. direct broadcast poss. within 5 ys.—good for underdeveloped countries
(2) Telephone: global system, no local call
(3) Newspapers:
a. press a button, get any info. by dialing the right channel
b. get any published paper from a TV-like console connected to a library
(4) Mail: electronic delivery
3. Info. processing:
(1) 1/3 GNP spent on it; increasing
(2) Consequences:
a. a world lang.
b. Pattern of transport: not for work but for pleasure
Result: live where people want to live; cities disintegrated