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4. Read the information again and answer the questions in pairs.

1. What is a peripheral?

What is its function?

How many examples of peripherals do you know?

2. What is a printer?

What are its advantages and disadvantages?

What does MFP mean?

3. What is an image scanner?

How does it work?

What are its disadvantages?

4. What is a digital camera?

What are its advantages?

5. What is a webcam?

What is its etymology?

What are its advantages?

6. What is a loudspeaker?

Where are they used?

7. What is a microphone?

Who invented it?

Where are they used?

8. Which peripheral do you use more than the others?

5. Read the statements and decide if they are true (t) or false (f). Prove your answer.

1. A peripheral isn’t dependent on the host.

2. A scanner, a mike, a speaker and a digicam are peripherals.

3. MFP means multifunction peripheral.

4. The printer was invented by Charles Babbage in the 19th century.

5. Reflection is one of the advantages of scanners.

6. A digital camera records images via an electronic image sensor.

7. A webcam is a video camera which feeds its images in unreal time to a computer or a computer network.

8. A webcam doesn’t allow computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations.

9. Loudspeaker systems are used in theatres and concerts.

10. A microphone converts sound into an electrical signal.

6. Find English equivalents in the information above.

1. главный ЭВМ

2. архитектура ЭВМ

3. пример

4. производить

5. хранить, запасать

6. источник

7. 30 страниц в минуту

8. быстрый

9. высокий

10. однако, тем не менее

11. эффективность

12. включать

13. прибор, аппарат

14. изобретать

15. зрительно, оптически

16. изображение

17. рукописный материал

18. отражение

19. тень

20. низкая контрастность

21. снимать на видео

22. фотографировать

23. век, столетие

24. немедленно, тотчас же

25. единственный

26. память

27. удалить

28. пространство

29. неподвижный

30. универсальная последовательная шина

31. сетевая плата

32. беспроводная точность

33. видеосвязь

34. распространенный

35. развивать

36. аксессуар

37. усилие

38. электронная лампа, вакуумная трубка

39. полезный

40. применение

41. слуховой аппарат

42. радио- и телевещание

7. Match the words from the two columns to have the word combinations. They all are in the information about peripherals.

1. to expand

2. core

3. to incorporate

4. to attach

5. in response to

6. to record

7. distortion and

8. flexibility and

9. to improve

10. sound

11. electro acoustic

12. a telephone voice

13. the establishment

a) a device to a host computer

b) computer architecture

c) low contrast

d) transducer

e) of video links

f) capabilities

g) low manufacturing cost

h) printers

i) into a lot of devices

j) images

k) an electrical audio signal

l) reinforcement

m) transmitter