- •Предисловие
- •4 Тематических текста первого уровня сложности (ia, ib, ic, id) со следующими за ними лексическими упражнениями непосредственно по текстам
- •4 Тематических текста второй степени сложности(iia, iib, iic, iid) со следующими за ними лексическими упражнениями непосредственно по текстам
- •Unit One
- •Vocabulary:
- •Text I-a
- •Part one Primary school
- •Public School
- •University
- •System of higher education in the usa
- •Topics to discuss.
- •American Terminology is sometimes confusing
- •Placement– определение места
- •Many experiments are carried outby us in our laboratory.
- •Ex23:Translate into English using the Passive Voice
- •The articles Ex24: Insert articles where necessary
- •Vocabulary
- •Text5 "Альма-матер" наших дней.
- •Reviewing Exercises
- •Keys to the above Ex-s:
- •Supplementary material
- •By Anne c.Lewis
- •Vocabulary
- •Benjamin Franklin
- •Сочетания с глаголами широкой семантики: take, get, make – do…
- •The school curriculum and academic programs
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary to the text
- •Managing your study time
- •Vocational Education
- •Text 1-d Text 1-d Easy living at Japan's colleges
- •Text iib
- •By Nicholas Morgan
- •Vocabulary
- •Now a High School Senoir
- •Ex 2 Replace the infinitive in brackets by the correct tense form – the Present Perfect or the Past Indefinite (Active)
- •Ex 3 Make up sentences following the model
- •Ex 4 Draw conclusions.
- •Ex 5 Make up the dialogues following the model using the words given below,
- •Ex 6 Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the usage of the Present Perfect Present Perfect Continuous – Past Perfect Continuous.
- •Ex 8 Translate into English using the Present Continuous, the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous.
- •Ex 9 Open the brackets putting the verbs in the Past Indefinite and Past Perfect.
- •Ex 10 Open the brackets using the proper tense forms.
- •Ex 11 Open the brackets putting the infinitive in the Future Perfect.
- •Ex 12 Put the verbs in brackets in the proper tense form (Active)
- •Ex 14 Change the following sentences into Indirect Speech following the examples. Notice the changes in the pronouns.
- •Vocabulary
- •Зачеты и учебные нагрузки
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Quotations and jokes.
- •Part 1 Uniting two campuses
- •Part 3 Room to grow
- •Text I-c
- •Part 4 New campus to train for future
- •Text I-d
- •Part 6 Lab expands health program
- •Renovating for expansion
- •Shortening Year does no Harm
- •Free and Open competition
- •Avoiding a Brain Drain
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Ex.13 Translate the sentences into English using the verb need as in the examples ( Need)
- •The Comparison of Adjective and Adverbs
- •Foundation Considers Options
- •Bewildering Array of Institutes
- •Efforts to Aid Russia's Scholars Are More Than a Humanitarian Gesture
- •'Someone Specific'
- •Favorable Exchange Rate
- •'Flood of Applications
- •Vocabulary
- •Sports clubs
- •Fencing club
- •The Rugby Club
- •Regular practices
- •Quotations and jokes.
- •What is engineering
- •Word Study to the Text
- •Science and Engineering
- •Word Study to the Text
- •Artificial stupidity
- •Gameboys and girls stay in to play Buy a computer, one mother explains, and life can never be the same again
- •Engineering Ethics
- •The Gerund
- •Speech practice
- •Ex.Interpret the following passages using the given words
- •В сетях компьютера
- •Часть 1. "Персоналки'
- •Часть 2. Компьютер-шпион (spy)
- •Буду вечно молодым?
- •Supplementary Texts Public Image of Engineering
- •Coming soon – robot slave for everyone
- •Engineering Education
- •Electronics
- •Realms of Engineering
- •Ex. Answer the following questions
- •Engineering Work
- •Глобализация образования. Коммуникация Интернет как образовательная система: преимущества и недостатки; возможности
- •Languages
- •The library of the future
- •A lesson learned
- •Distance education: a means to an end, no more, no less.
- •В сетях компьютера
- •Мировая паутина
- •Рукописи не горят, а дискеты устаревают
- •В мире изобретений.
- •Самое значительное достижение
- •Compaq computer
- •People Like Electronic Announcers
- •Do men and women speak the same languages?
- •Quatations and jokes
- •Unit VI Карьера и выдающиеся личности современности Биографии выдающихся людей из разных областей знаний, автобиография. Авторское резюме
- •Introductory text Our Century and the next One
- •Young engineers.
- •Oceans of research.
- •The assembly line
- •Still Sprinting
- •Not so snow white after all.
- •William Randolph Hearst
- •They write in the newspapers he was invited to
- •Travel writer
- •Publisher
- •Ines de la Fresange Model
- •Actress
- •Record Producer
- •Improve your interpreting skills
- •It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
- •Скромность украшает.
- •У Нewlett-Рackard - новый президент. Карлтон фьорина сменяет платта.
- •Дело о пеликанах.
- •Кэрол Хиггинс Кларк
- •Профессор Умберто Эко.
- •Billion dollar brain.
- •Pablo Picasso's Fortune
- •The private side.
- •Taking a flier on tne web.
- •Экология человека в естественной и кибер-интеллектуальной среде
- •Introductory text
- •Artificial stupidity
- •We Are in the Middle of a Cyberwar
- •Portable databases help doctors practice more efficient.
- •A case for smokeless zones
- •In Britain’s offices).
- •Nicotine traps
- •Pipe dream
- •Speak English outside of class
- •Use a dictionary when he writs
- •Attending a conference
- •Первый раз дедушка пожаловался на ревматизм в 1812 г.
- •Воздействие (influence) компьютера на человека.
- •Флирт в сети.
- •A workaholic economy.
- •Baltic sea problems.
- •The right time and place
- •Dealing with stress
- •Pollution
- •Quatations and jokes
- •Права человека Права личности и права учащегося.
- •Introductory text age of majority (or gaining rights)
- •Intellectual property.
- •Legal Status of Engineering Societies
- •Bridging the digital divide.
- •1.Government records
- •2. Personal files
- •Book banning must be stopped
- •Five Key Questions about Modern Medical Science
- •Tenancy agreement No._______
- •Improve your interpreting skills
- •Gender in Education
- •Часть 1.
- •Часть 2.
- •Часть 3.
- •Text 4. Хакеры и «крэкеры». Agree or disagree with the author.
- •Invasion of the Sight to Privacy
- •United States Legal System
- •The whole world is watching.
- •By Jennifer Tanaka
- •Secretaries: the wasted asset.
- •Quatations and jokes
- •Список основных сокращений, используемых в деловой корреспонденции:
- •1. Post-school or tertiary education usa
- •Great britain
- •1. University people
- •1. University degrees
- •1. Grading system
- •Grades: a, d, c, d, f Quality points: 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.5, 2.0,0.0
- •1. Some additional university terms
- •Неправильные глаголы
- •Unit I. Системы образования
- •Direct & Indirect Speech. Сочетания с глаголами широкой семантики:
- •Education:East and West
- •Навыки перевода (Rus – Eng)
- •Gender in Education Навыки перевода (Rus – Eng)
- •1. Защита прав потребителей
- •1. Computer Crime
The whole world is watching.
As more and more cameras are connected to the net, the web is growing eyes.
But is everyone ready for a close-up?
Webcams have been around for a few yeas now, transmitting round the-clock images of famous buildings, the surf conditions up and down the Pacific coastline, heavy traffic, street scenes and fish tanks. Since the first one went live sometime in the early '90s, Webcams have been proliferating steadily - though no one knows for sure how many are out there. An Internet search for the phrase "live Webcam" showed 9,28 Web pages. But there were many links to personal Webcam page where people are connecting cameras to the Internet and, privacy be damned, letting the world watch.
And the world is tuning in. Observers of the Webcam phenomenon say it's the logical next step for a society hooked on reality based television shows like "Cops" and MTV's popular "Real World" series. People are already turning cameras on themselves the Internet allows them to effectively broadcast those images, cheaply and continuously. Why watch other people's lives when other people could be watching yours?
Unfortunately, as entertainment, watching someone's life is even more boring than it sounds. Webcams tend to catch people in their most routine moments: sitting at a desk in front of their computer, staring at their monitors or typing. And yet, for a growing number of the voyeuristically inclined, these cyber transmissions have a strange appeal. Brian Cury, who runs a large Web-based directory of Webcam sites atwww.earthcam.com, says, "You develop a relationship with that person and you start to care about them."
There is, for example, the Webcam Dave Williams set up for his daughter, Danielle. The Williamses' Web site featured a window where you could watch a live snapshot of the baby that was updated once an hour, throughout the day and night, by a small $ 150 video-camera hanging above her crib. At the time Williams thought it would be a neat way for friends and family to watch Dani as she grew up. Then the fan e-mail started coming. From strangers in France. And Japan. And from a class of second grade somewhere in a small town .
Most of these people simply stumbled on the site in the course of regular Web surfing. Traffic to the DaniCam site grew from a few hits a month to 1,000 a day. At first Dave and his wife, Sheryl, were amused by the attention. The true horror of what they had done didn't hit them until they saw "The Truman Show," the 1998 movie in which a man unknowingly lives his life in front of cameras and a worldwide audience of prime-time viewers. "We're sitting there watching the movie and Sheryl turns to me and says, 'You're disconnecting the Dani Cam'." That night, the DaniCam went dark "To this day," says Williams, "people send e-mail saying, 'We miss Dani'."
Those Dani-addicts could migrate to the Marrero family camera, which is Webcasting images of Samantha, 2 y.o., and her brothel Matthew, who's a year old, live from their shared bedroom in Newark, N.J. or to Web Dorm.com, where you can watch real-life college students eat, sleep and study in their natural habitat 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Ryan Scott, a senior at Southen Methodist University, has kept his Webcam going for two years and uses it to socialize with friends and family, and meet new people. Cody Ward, a 20-year-old at the University of Florida, starting Web-camming a year ago out of curiosity but says he forgets the camera's even there anymore. "It's whatever. It's on."
Nobody knows this strange new world better than the female star of the Webcam that started it all in 1996 - the JenniCam at www.jennicam.org (be careful; porn lives right next door at www.jenny cam.org). Jennifer Ringley, now 23, is still there, living her life. The site started as a project for a computer class that Bingley took as a junior in college. She had seen a Webcam called The Amazing Fish Cam (pointed at an aquarium in the offices of Netscape, the browser-software company) and thought to herself, "Why not?" Three years later, the site gets 4.5 million hits a day and costs upwards of $15,000 a month to maintain. To help the financials break even, she charges $15 a year for a "subscription.
There probably won't be too many more such Jennis in our lifetime. But Webcams are sure to be a feature of tomorrow's technology landscape. People are increasingly discovering practical uses for them, such as monitoring a beach house during winter months or peeking in on kids through Webcammed day-care centers. In the future Webcams might allow you to check out the scene inside a nightclub before you stand in line, or help you get out of traffic using highway Webcams that can beam gridlock conditions to your moving car. These sorts of applications may well prove indispensable - and, in the process, make Webcam-addicts of us all.