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4. Try to answer these questions. Use the information from the text.

1. What is the Internet?

2. What does the Internet consist of?

3. What are the peculiarities of sending and receiving information over the Internet?

4. What are the full and the shorter forms of the word ‘Internet’?

5. What does the full form of ‘Internet’ mean?

6. What are the peculiarities of writing ‘the Internet’?

7. Where and when did the Internet appear?

8. When did the popularization of using the Internet begin?

9. What are the two types of computer-mediated communication?

10 What are the examples of asynchronous communication?

11. What are the examples of synchronous communication?

12. What is the connection between newspapers, books, other print publishing and blogging and web feeds?

13. How can people communicate using the Internet?

5. Are the statement true (t) or false (f)? Prove your answer. Use the information above.

1. The Internet is used only in Russia and the United States of America.

2. The Internet is composed of millions of networks which are connected by a lot of networking technologies.

3. ‘Internetwork’ is a short form of ‘Internet’.

4. People prefer the technical term ‘the Internetwork’ to the ‘Net’.

5. The term ‘the Internet’ is a proper noun which is written with an initial capital letter.

6. People knew about the Internet at the end of the 19th century.

7. Computer-mediated communication can be synchronous and asynchronous.

8. Using the Internet people can communicate, read books, listen to music and watch movies.

6. Complete the tables. Pay attention to the part of speech. Translate all words. Use your dictionary if it is necessary.

Noun

Verb

Noun

Adjective

carriage

1

capitalization

16

2

chain

privacy

17

3

delay

definition

18

4

earth

19

popular

treatment

5

entirety

20

knock

6

initials

21

link

7

instance

22

8

trade

23

pathless

9

populate

24

popular

10

quarter

11

retail

route

12

stay

13

supplies

14

15

touch

7. Match the words with a similar meaning.

1. commonplace

2. reshape

3. to link

4. merger

5. definite

6. initial

7. to knock

8. delay

9. instant

10. message

11. to treat

12. to stay

13. path

14. to route

15. entire

a) banality

b) determined

c) hold-up

d) whole

e) first

f) momentary

g) to hit

h) to connect

i) connection

j) notification

k) road

l) change

m) to travel

n) to remain

o) to regard