- •2. Find Russian equivalents to every English word:
- •3. Read and translate the text: what is a computer?
- •Looking at hardware
- •Procesor and memory
- •4. Translate the following word-combinations:
- •5. Find sentences with the following words in the text.
- •6. Speak about processor and memory and other parts your computer consist of. Unit II
- •2. Read and translate texts: monitor
- •Keyboard
- •Arrow Keys
- •Function Keys
- •Additional keys
- •3. Translate the words and word-combinations into Russian:
- •4. Name all basic keys on the keyboard.
- •7. Translate the names of the keys on the extended keyboard and determine their functions:
- •9. Make up the story about the keyboards and their using. Unit III
- •1. Read the text, write down the new words. Learn the words.
- •Additional hardware
- •Using disks and disk drives
- •Labeling and Caring for a Floppy Disk
- •Protecting Information on a Floppy Disk
- •Inserting and Removing a Floppy Disk
- •Personal Computer (pc)
- •What is a computer?
- •4. General understanding. Answer the questions to the text:
- •5. Which of the listed below terms have Russian equivalents:
- •6. Which of the listed above statements are true/false. Specify your answer using the text:
- •7. Match the following:
- •8. Questions for group discussion:
- •Hardware
- •3. General understanding. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the listed below statements are true/false? Specify your answer using the text:
- •5. Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary
- •6. Which of the following is Hardware and which is Software?
- •7. Match the following, learn the definitions:
- •8. Questions for group discussion:
- •Looking at operating system What is ms-dos?
- •Vocabulary:
- •3. Find in the text sentences with the subordinate clause. Read and explain the rule. Translate these sentences.
- •2. Speak how to organize your files and directories.
- •3. Translate the following computer messages:
- •4. Look through all the texts and find the synonyms:
- •5. Read, translate and match the following, learn the definitions:
- •Unit XIII
- •2. Read and translate the text: types of software
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the following is Software:
- •5. Which of the listed below statements are true or false?
- •6. Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary:
- •7. Speak about Software.
- •8. Say: What is it?
- •9. Translate the following computer messages:
- •Unit XIV
- •2. Read and translate the text: operating systems
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Speak about operating systems.
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the listed above statements are true or false? Specify your answer using the text:
- •5. Say: What is:
- •6. Discuss the following problems:
- •7. Speak about the operating system Windows you use on your computer. Unit XVI
- •1. Read and translate the text:
- •How much shold an educated man know about computers?
- •3. Speak on the problem that is discussed in the text. Are you agree? If not, why? What do you think about educated man?
- •4. Read the text: programming languages
- •5. Ask the questions on the text. Make up the dialogue to the text. Unit XVII
- •1. Translate the following words, pronounce them correctly:
- •2. Memorize the following word-combinations:
- •High level programming languages fortran
- •The elements of programming
- •8. Read and translate the text:
- •1. Read and learn the new words:
- •Introduction to the www and the internet
- •4. Which of the listed below statements are true/false. Specify your answer using the text.
- •5. Define the following using the vocabulary:
- •6. Say in English:
- •7. Match the following:
- •8. Read the text and ask questions to it: The Internet
- •9. Questions for group discussion:
- •10. Read the text and render in English: Bill Gates
- •My future profession
- •4. Add to your vocabulary:
- •5. How do you see your future profession? Please answer the following questions:
- •6. Please, discuss with your group advantages and disadvantages of your future profession.
- •Is it well paid? How difficult is it to find a good work in this field?
- •1. Put the following sentences in plural and write them down.
- •2. Put the following sentences in plural and write them down.
- •3. Use the Possessive Case of the Nouns:
- •12. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form. Use Past Tenses:
- •13. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form:
Using disks and disk drives
A disk is a data storage medium consisting of a flat, circular, magnetic surface on which information can be recorded. You will receive several disks with your computer. These already contain information and programs, and are ready to use.
Hard disk is the main device for long-time storage of the big sizes of the data and programs. The data are stored in a chip about floppy and hard disks, about the processor and some other devices of the motherboard. Due to this chip, the computer precisely watches time and a calendar.
A disk, like a cassette tape, is reusable storage device that holds information, such as software and data, in files. As with random access memory, the amount of space on a disk is measured in bytes. Unlike information stored in random-access memory, however, information stored on a disk is not deleted when you turn off your computer. If you choose to, you can delete the information on a disk, and with proper care, you can use the disk over and over again. Your computer’s disk drives move information stored on the disks into and out of random-access memory. For example, your computer can read software instructions from a disk into random-access memory, and write your data to a disk for safekeeping.
There are two kinds of disk drives: a hard disk drive and floppy disk drive. A hard disk drive contains a non-removable disk that is built in your system. With a hard disk drive, you can store large amounts of information in one convenient place, instead of storing it on many floppy disks.
The hard disk drive can also write and read information to and from your system much faster than a floppy disk drive can write and read information to and from a disk. When your system writes or reads information to or from a disk, the indicator light on the drive goes on.
Each disk drive has a letter assigned to it so you can tell your system where to find instructions and information. For example on many systems the floppy disk drive is called the A drive, and the hard disk drive is called the C drive.
Your computer may have either one or two disk drives, which MS-DOS knows as drives A: and C:.
The default drive is the one which MS-DOS uses unless you tell it to do otherwise. It is shown by the prompt that MS-DOS displays.
For operative carry of small information amount use floppy disks which are inserted into a special disk drive. The principle of operation of the device will consist in reading numerical data with the help of the laser ray mirrored from a surface of a disk. The digital recording on CD differs from record on A floppy disk drive.
Floppy disk drive holds a removable floppy disk, which has less storage capacity than a hard disk drive. Floppy disks are removable and come in various sizes. Some systems used 5.25-inch floppy disks. This floppy disk was thin and flexible, and therefore somewhat fragile. Standard floppy disk has a size of 3.5 inches, which capacity is 1.4 Mb. It is labeled by characters HD (high destiny). This kind of floppy disk is protected by a hard plastic cover.
Front and back view of a 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disk
3. Find the appropriate English forms for the following
expressions:
reusable storage device различные размеры
to hold information твердая пластиковая оболочка
an amount of space дисковод жесткого диска
unlike information stored гореть
with proper care дисковод гибкого диска
to a disk for safekeeping свет индикатора
hard disk drive в какой-то степени хрупкий
non-removable disk намного быстрее
floppy disk drive содержать информацию
to be built into количество свободного места
in one convenient place в отличие от хранимой информации
removable floppy disk устройство многократного
хранения
much faster с надлежащей осторожностью
indicator light несъемный диск
to go on на диск для безопасного хранения
various sizes съемный гибкий диск
somewhat fragile быть встроенным
hard plastic cover в одном удобном месте
4. Give English equivalent to the following words and words combinations:
данные; файлы; выбирать; снова и снова; передавать информацию; большое количество информации; вместо; меньший объем хранения; намного быстрее, чем гибкий диск; индикаторная лампочка; присвоенная буква; искать информацию; выпускать различных размеров; тонкий и гибкий; такой вид; быть защищённым; подобно магнитофонной кассете (кассетной ленте); в отличие от информации.
Аsk questions to the text.
UNIT V
Translate the following words with the dictionary. Learn the words:
safe place write-protect tab
dust to protect
moisture to change
magnetic fields to slide
to label to reveal
to identify the write-protect hole
to stick to remove
exposed area to replace
soft permanently
to damage to prevent
write protect notch accidentally
Read and translate texts: