- •Introduction to the Computing……………………………………….5
- •Definitions.……………………………………………………………….45
- •Topics for Essays, Oral or Written Reports……………………….92
- •Introduction to the Computing
- •I.1 translate the following phrases.
- •I.4 Do you agree with the statements below? Correct the wrong ones.
- •I.5 Ask questions to each other.
- •I.6 Ask your fellow students some questions to each sentence.
- •I.9 a) Having read the dialogue above you should decide whether the following statements and suggestions are true or false. Change a false statement to make it true.
- •1. Prefix tables
- •I.10 Practise using underlined words with negative prefixes. Contradict the following statements in the same way as the example. Not all the words you need are in the table above.
- •I.13 construct words or phrases to replace the underlined words.
- •I.18 a) Translate the following into Russian, mind the prefixes.
- •7. Space / time the following units of measure are used to define storage and transmission capacities
- •I.19 match the words with their definitions.
- •*** Key expressions to be used in your own Dialogues
- •I.22 Do you know the difference? Translate the words below the table & put them in.
- •I.23 Do you know these words? Translate them…
- •I.24 decide what the prefixes mean in the following.
- •I.25 Fill in the gaps with the correct prefix from the box.
- •I.26 a) Fill in the table below with the words underneath.
- •I.29 match the beginnings & the endings (there are several definitions for some terms).
- •I.30 Ask each other questions using the above-mentioned terms.
- •This is a computer Prereading Discussion
- •Text 1a Computing & Computers
- •1.2 Read the international words.
- •1.4 Staying their part of speech, translate the groups of words of the same root. Find different ones.
- •1.5 Translate the sentences.
- •1.6 Translate the sentences.
- •1.7 Translate the sentences.
- •1.8 B) match the following underlined phrases with the hints below the line.
- •1.9 Translate the sentences.
- •1.10 Translate the following phrases, mind the attributive groups.
- •1.11 Define the predicate & translate the sentences.
- •1.14 Complete the sentences:
- •Text1b Computer
- •Dialogue1.16 Dramatize the dialogue. Give your opinion about having a computer at home.
- •Vocabulary ratings
- •10-14 Correct: Good 15-17 correct: Excellent 18-20 correct: Exceptional
- •1.17 The statements below were results of the survey comparing boys and girls. Match the beginning with the endings. Girls… Boys…
- •Word Power
- •Text 1Cb) Read & translate the article, render it, & discuss the problem. Computer Studies?
- •1.18 A) find in text 1d underneath the answers to the questions.
- •1.19 Express the main idea of the article above using the following.
- •1.20 Choose the definition to match the given terms.
- •1.21 Match the best term to the given definition.
- •1.24 Fill in the gaps using the words from the box below.
- •1.26 Say if these statements are true or false (correct the false ones).
- •Unit Two
- •Choosing the right meaning
- •Ability n. Способность; умение; 2. Дарования, способности
- •2.2 Translate the words of the same root.
- •2.3 Match the synonyms.
- •2.4 Translate the phrases.
- •2.4 Match the following with the hints below the line.
- •2.7 Translate the following.
- •2.8 Complete the sentences according to the text.
- •Dialogue 2.10 Dramatize the dialogue & make your own ones. Using portable calculators
- •Text 2b Prehistory
- •2.12 A) Translate the following words. B) Give some examples from the dictionary.
- •2.13 Match the antonyms (there may be more then two of them).
- •2.14 A) Match the synonyms (there are more than two of them).
- •2.15 Find the answers to the questions below in text 2c.
- •2.16 Match the beginnings & the endings.
- •2.17 Say if the following statements are true or false. Change the false into the true ones.
- •2.18 Make your own dialogue about the prehistory of mind tools.
- •2.20 Answer the following questions & add your own to make a dialogue according to the text read.
- •2.21 Put in the proper words from the box.
- •2.22 Translate the sentences, mind the underlined words.
- •2.23 Translate into English.
- •How Modern Are You?
- •Add up Your Score and Read the Analysis
- •The Analysis
- •Unit three Computer Generations
- •The evolutionofcomputersinterms ofgenerations.
- •If therewerenocomputerstheyhadtobethoughtout.
- •3.1 Choose the proper term for each definition.
- •3.2 Choose the proper definition for the term, & translate them.
- •3.5 Find antonyms for the following words:
- •3.8 Find Russian equivalents for the given below.
- •3.12 Ask your interlocutors
- •3.13 Match the beginnings with the endings.
- •3.14 Translate the sentences below, mind the underlined words.
- •Dialogue 3.15 Complete the dialogue. Basic units of a computer
- •Dialogue 3.16 Complete the dialogue. Computer generations
- •What does the term the Fifth Generation describe?
- •It describes … .
- •3.17 Define the parts of speech & translate these words.
- •3.18 Translate.
- •3.19 Find Russian equivalents to the following words & phrases.
- •3.20 Translate these sentences.
- •3.21 Translate these sentences, say if the verb to have is: a) notional, b) auxiliary, c) modal, d) a part of a set phrase.
- •3.22 Define the -ed form & translate the sentences.
- •3.26 Translate into English.
- •Computer Systems
- •Handle n. 1. Ручка, рукоять, рукоятка; V.T. 2. Трогать, брать; обращаться, справляться 3. Торговать;
- •Amount n. 1. Сумма; 2. Количество; V.I. 3. Составлять, достигать, быть равным / равносильным; сводиться к;
- •4.3 Put the nouns into the proper column, add their meanings.
- •4.4 Find English equivalents to the following.
- •4.5 Using a dictionary match synonyms (a - b).
- •4.6 Match the following with the hints below the line.
- •4.7 Match each component in column I with its definition.
- •4.7 Complete the table in your exercise books.
- •4.8 Guess or Match the following abbreviations with the phrases and meanings.
- •4.13 Add another word, abbreviation, or part of a word, to complete common 'computer' words and phrases given below.
- •4.14 Complete this text with the words from the box.
- •4.15 Do you remember the English terms for the following?
- •4.16 Make sure you know what these mean in English.
- •4.17 Arrange the following terms around the most general one.
- •4.18 Express the main idea of the article above using the following.
- •4.25 Translate the sentences.
- •4.29 State the function of the infinitive and translate the following.
- •4.31 Translate the following.
I.26 a) Fill in the table below with the words underneath.
Noun (кто, что?) |
Adjective (какой?) |
Verb (что делать?) |
Adverb (как?) |
Supremacy / generate / advantage / damage / contribute / resistance / shorten / discrepancy / efficiency / magnetize / foundation / consumer / conductor / carrier / mainly / freedom / considerable / possible / interconnection / fundamental / impossible / insignificant / irregular / simultaneous / advantageous / misleading / electronics / installation / direction / condition / equipment / requirement / readiness / usefulness / leadership / length / aperiodic / abnormal / magnitude / antibody / capacity / conductivity / co-axial / measure / nature / counteract / desalt / disadvantage / enlarge / ex-president / various / non-conductor / important / efficient / output / aggregate / overestimate / unique / reconstruct / basic / political / semiconductor / superior / submarine / positive / superconductor / useful / unequal / useless / carefree / underestimate / humanlike / compulsory / noisy / sevenfold / forward / clockwise / likely / tenfold.
b) translate the words, mind the meaning of the suffixes.
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Read the text following the recording, then discuss, render or translate it.
Text C Information Technology - IT
by Trevor Hamlett
‘I don't think I'm getting the best out of my computer. I switch it on, and I turn the brightness up full - and then I use it as a light!' (Harry Hill)
Computers store1, arrange2, organise3 and process4 information. The user of the computer does not really need to know how computers work, unless they are interested in these workings. All you need to know is how to operate the Front End.
THE FRONT END You have to know how to get information into the computer. You have to know how to get the computer to process that information in the way you want, and you have to know how to get the results out.
There are two main problems here. First, you depend on the designer of the computer and the software5 that runs it, for the security and safety of your information. Second, the design of the software may force you to work and think in clumsy6 or undesirable ways. There are some advantages to the standardization of software by the huge companies that dominate7 the market, but variety and flexibility is important. Monopolies8 should be resisted.
CHANGE? Are computer machines just for doing what we did before, but doing it much much faster? Or are our lives being changed by computers in a fundamental way?
People who are keen9 to promote and sell new technology are predicting all sweetness and light. Others predict doom and gloom10. What seems certain is that the impact and potential of computers for better and for worse has been underestimated by almost everybody.
For thousands of years we have recorded information in the best ways available.
Writing had a huge effect, but it was slower to spread than IT. It was more under control. Writing was a powerful form of communication. The people who used it were powerful. It is hard to believe that it became the hell11 of bored office workers. The office worker is mostly used as a machine. Does the computer represent freedom from this?
FREEDOM? Strangely, IT has worked both ways at once. Microprocessors, which are at the heart of all computers, control everything from washing machines, to video players, to bank accounts, even the watch on wrist!
Twenty years ago, few people saw the vast computing and processing power that would be used in people's homes today. What people did predict was that the power of computers would free people from dull repetitive jobs. IT did. People are being freed from those dull12 old tasks. In areas like banking, half or three quarters of the workers! are no longer needed. They are thrown out13! Technology is no better than the vision14 of the people who use it.
'IT’ AND WORKING FROM HOME In modern societies people often live a long way from their work. They COMMUTE15 and POLLUTE. They WASTE time, WASTE energy, WASTE lives. It is probably obvious to all, that this daily migration15 is not for the common good. The question is who will pay for change, and what change? There are consequences for people trying to work at home. Perhaps office facilities should be communally owned. Then people could work for their distant company from an office near their home. If companies spread out like this, will they exist anywhere? What will this mean? Where is Coca Cola? Everywhere and nowhere!
DATABASE versus INTERNET Knowledge is power. A database is a store of information. Computers allow the storage, processing and cross-referencing of unthinkable amounts of information. Government and large commercial interests build databases. They know where you shop, what you buy, your health record17, your financial record, and they sell this information to other databases. Help!
The Internet was originally set up by the Americans as a world-wide network of automatically self-healing electronic pathways for military use. It is now available for anyone with a computer, a telephone, and, enough money to pay for the service. People can communicate on their computers throughout the world. Perhaps this will help to control the electronic oppression of people by their governments and big business. It seems that human nature does not change that much down the centuries. The way we express it does.
Like all new technologies, information technology has had large effects on patterns of work. Some jobs go. Some new jobs are created. New words enter the language.
The question remains: are the changes caused by the rise of IT going to be just matters of scale18 or level of change, or are the changes going to be so fundamental and powerful that we will be living in a different world!
Nowadays, change happens fast. We cannot predict the world of one hundred years away. Even five years is difficult.
The excitement of the glittering lights of our machines may blind us to the possibility that our basic needs and desires are the same as they have always been. How we express these is a matter for the infinite resourcefulness19 and versatility20 of the human mind.
*How many computer programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? 00000001.
i.27 Translate the explanations of the words used in Text C.
1. store: (here) keep somewhere. 2. arrange: (here) list. 3. organise: rearrange. 4. process: work on and use. 5. software: the internal instructions that control how a computer works. 6. clumsy: awkward, difficult. 7. dominate: rule and control. 8. monopoly: the only provider. 9. keen: eager. 10. doom and gloom: expression meaning disaster and depression. |
11. hell: opposite of heaven. 12. dull: boring. 13. thrown out: sacked, lose their jobs. 14. vision: the power of imagination. 15. commute: regular travel to and from work. 16. migration: movement of people or animals. 17. record: here, list of facts for information. 18. scale: proportion. 19. resourcefulness: ability to invent. 20. versatility: flexibility. |
Dialogues IV a) Answer the questions to make dialogues with your fellow student.
1. What are the functions of computers?
What do you need to know to operate the computer?
What will the computer Age be like from two existing points of view?
What is your own opinion?
For thousands of years we have recorded information in the best ways available.
What is the role of microprocessor?
Can it be regarded as blessing that the power of computers is freeing people from dull repetitive jobs?
Do you see any other disadvantages of the process of global information industry?
Do you think now daily migration of people to and from work can be eliminated with the help of computers?
If so, what consequences will it have?
***
2. What is knowledge?
What is a database?
What was the Internet originally set up as?
Who is it now available for? And what for?
What influence has information technology got on work and life of people?
***
3. What do the terms store, arrange, organise and process mean?
What does software mean?
What does commute mean?
What does the only provider mean?
What is the synonym of awkward, difficult?
What is the synonym of eager?
What is the synonym of boring?
What is the synonym of sacked/ lose their jobs?
Say in one word: regular travel to and from work.
How is the following expressed in the text: disaster and depression?
What is opposite of heaven?
b) Your questions, please!
Do You Think We Are Getting the Best out of our Computers?
… (Как работает компьютер, и что надо знать пользователю об этом)?
Computers store, arrange, organise and process information. The user of the computer does not really need to know how computers work, unless they are interested in these workings. All you need to know is how to operate the Front End.
… (что включает в себя понятие to operate the Front End)?
You have to know how to get information into the computer. You have to know how to get the computer to process that information in the way you want, and you have to know how to get the results out.
… (и это все)?
There are two main problems here. First, you depend on the designer of the computer and the software that runs it, for the security and safety of your information. Second, the design of the software may force you to work and think in clumsy or undesirable ways.
… (Значит, компьютеры предназначены, чтобы делать то, что мы делали раньше, только делать это гораздо быстрее? Или наша жизнь подвергнется фундаментальным изменениям?)
People who are keen to promote and sell new technology are predicting all sweetness and light. Others predict doom and gloom. What seems certain is that the impact and potential of computers for better and for worse has been underestimated by almost everybody.
(Давайте сравним прежние способы хранения информации с имеющимися в нашем распоряжении (available) сейчас).
For thousands of years we have recorded information in the best ways available. Writing had a huge effect, but it was slower to spread than IT. It was more under control. Writing was a powerful form of communication. The people who used it were powerful. It is hard to believe that it became the hell of bored office workers. The office worker is mostly used as a machine.
Освободит ли компьютер нас от этого?
c) You may continue the dialogues.
Definitions of Some Main Computer Terms
i.28 Study the following.
computer power - the effective performance of a computer. It can be expressed in MIPS (millions of instructions per second), clock speed (10Mhz, 16Mhz) and in word or bus size, (16-bit, 32-bit). Real power is whether it gets your job done quickly. A software package is "powerful" if it has a large number of features.
computer science - the field of computer hardware and software. It includes systems analysis & design, application and system software design and programming and datacenter operations. For young students, the emphasis is typically on learning a programming language or running a personal computer with little attention to information science, the study of information and its uses. If students were introduced to data administration, DBMS concepts and transaction and master files, they would have a better grasp of an organization's typical information requirements.
Hardware - machinery and equipment (CPU, disks, tapes, modem, cables, etc.). In operation, a computer is both hardware and software. One is useless without the
other. The hardware design specifies the commands it can follow, and the instructions tell it what to do.
Hardware Is "Storage and Transmission" The more memory and disk storage a computer has, the more work it can do. The faster the memory and disks transmit data and instructions to the CPU, the faster it gets done. A hardware requirement is based on the size of the databases that will be created and the number of users or applications that will be served at the same time. How much? How fast?
Software Is "Logic and Language" Software deals with the details of an ever-changing business and must process transactions in a logical fashion. Languages are used to program the software. The "logic and language" involved in analysis and programming is generally far more complicated than specifying a storage and transmission requirement.
Software - instructions for the computer. A series of instructions that performs a particular task is called a program. The two major categories are system software and application software. System software is made up of control programs, including the operating system, communications software and database manager.
Application software is any program that processes data for the user (inventory, payroll, spreadsheet, word processor, etc.). A common misconception is that software is also data. It is not. Software tells the hardware how to process the data. "Software is "run." Data is "processed."
Data - (1) technically, raw facts and figures, such as orders and payments, which are processed into information, such as balance due and quantity on hand. However, in common usage, the terms data and information are used synonymously. The amount of data versus information kept in the computer is a tradeoff. Data can be processed into different forms of information, but it takes time to sort and sum transactions. Up-to-date information can provide instant answers. A common misconception is that software is also data. Software is executed, or run, by the computer. Data is "processed." Software is "run." (2) Any form of information whether in paper or electronic form. In electronic form, data refers to files and databases, text documents, images and digitally-encoded voice and video. (3) The plural form of datum.
Database - (1) a set of interrelated files that is created and managed by a DBMS1.
(2) Any electronically-stored collection of data.
NB 1DBMS - DataBase Management System.
information - the summarization of data. Technically, data are raw facts and figures that are processed into information, such as summaries and totals. But since information can also be raw data for the next job or person, the two terms cannot be precisely defined. Both terms are used synonymously and interchangeably. As office automation and data processing merge, it may be more helpful to view information the way data is defined and used, namely: data, text, spreadsheets, pictures, voice and video. Data are discretely defined fields. Text is a collection of words. Spreadsheets are data in matrix (row and column) form. Pictures are lists of vectors or frames of bits. Voice is a continuous stream of sound waves. Video is a sequence of frames. Future databases will routinely integrate all these forms of information.
information industry - (1) organizations that publish information via online services or through distribution by diskette or CD-ROM. (2) All computer, communications and electronics-related organizations, including hardware, software and services.
Information Systems - the formal title for a data processing, MIS2, or IS department. Other titles are Data Processing, Information Processing, Information Services, Management Information Systems, Management Information Services & Information Technology.
NB 2MIS - Management Information System.