- •Unit 1 computer users
- •Using Computers
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 1
- •Text 1a. Computerusers
- •Table a Table b
- •The digital age
- •Text 1b. Computers make the world smaller and smarter
- •Grammar review present forms
- •Verbs usually not used in any of the progressive tenses
- •Grammar Exercises
- •The Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
- •Writing
- •Unit 2 computer architecture
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 2
- •Text 2a. Computer architecture
- •Text 2b. Cache memory
- •How a disk cache works
- •Grammar review. Past forms
- •The present perfect and past simple
- •I have done I did
- •The present perfect continuous and present perfect
- •I have been doing I have done
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Speaking/writing
- •Unit 3 peripherals
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 3
- •Text a. Peripherals
- •Post-reading activity
- •Specialist reading
- •Text b. Types of Printers
- •Grammar review future forms
- •It is interesting to know:
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Exercise 10. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Perfect or the Futures Simple.
- •Exercise 11. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Continuous or the Future Perfect.
- •Writing
- •Text 4a. Personalcomputers
- •Specialist reading
- •Text 4b.Data mining
- •Grammar review. The passive voice
- •Table of passive voice
- •Active and passive voice (compare) Active Voice
- •Passive Voice
- •Grammar Exercises
- •The Prepositions
- •Grammar Exercises prepositions
- •Prepositions of location:
- •In used to show location or destination in an area:
- •Intended goal/target
- •In is used for
- •Other common prepositions with multiple meaning
- •Writing/speaking Think about advantages and disadvantages of using a desktop computer, a laptop and a palm computer. Compare them.
Post-reading activity
Task 1. Answer the following questions.
1. What peripheral devices can be attached to the host computer? 2.What are the functions of input devices such as a keyboard, a scanner, a mouse and a light pen?3. What do you know about such output devices as monitors?4. What kind of printers do you know? 5. What is a keyboard designed for? 6. Can you explain the difference between CRT and LCD? 7. What are speakers and headphones used for? 8. What is a printer? 9. How are printers connected to the computer?
Task 2. Match the terms in Table A with the definitions in Table B.
Table A |
Table B |
1. barcode reader |
a) a piece of equipment that is connected to the central processing unit of a computer system. |
2. peripheral |
b) a measure of the quality of a display screen in terms of the amount of graphical information that can be shown on the screen |
3. resolution |
c) a symbol on the monitor screen that indicates the point on the screen that is being used |
4. cursor |
d) an optical input device that uses the reflection of a light beam to read barcode labels |
5. keyboard |
e) a common cursor control input device used with a graphical user interface. It commonly has 2 or 3 button switches on top and a ball underneath that is rolled on a flat surface |
6. mouse |
f) the main electronic input device that has keys arranged in a similar layout to a typewriter |
Task 3. Complete the gaps.
1. The image displayed on the screen is composed of many rows of tiny dots, called … .
2. Printers create paper copies, called … , of information sent from the computer.
3. Monitors are often called VDUs (video display units), VDTs (video display terminals), or simply … .
4. Peripheral devices can be classified generally as … .
5. The quality of images on the screen is measured in terms of … .
6. A mouse is an input device that operates by controlling the position of the ….
Task 4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.
printers, software, capacity, drive, pixels, scanner, peripherals, barcode, removable |
1. Digital cameras can be attached to a computer to directly transfer pictures for editing using special … and unwanted pictures can be deleted. 2. The resolution of a camera is measured in … and given as two numbers. 3. Other factors that vary between storage devices include: the speed at which the … moves the media past the read/write head and reads or writes data to the storage media and the … of the media. 4. There are various types of … for out-putting text and graphics to paper. 5. Data can take many forms and there is a wide variety of input, output, storage and communication … . 6. … is an input device that acts like a miniature photocopy machine connected to a computer, copying graphic images into the computer and allowing type- written pages to be entered without retyping. 7. … reader is used for looking up prices. 8. … storage enables the user to change the media and transfer it to another computer.
Task 5. These sentences contain typical mistakes. Correct them.
1. A mouse is a device which connected to the computer.
2. These are three main types of a peripherals.
3. Input devices refers to the computer components.
4. Data is processing by the CPU.
5. Printer is peripheral which produces a hard copy.
6. They make our interactions with computers easier.
7. These devices can describe as hard disks.