- •Read and Learn the words:
- •2. Find Russian equivalents to every English word:
- •3. Read and translate the text: what is a computer?
- •Looking at hardware
- •Procesor and memory
- •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.
- •Look at the pictures and explain functions of the keys in English:
- •Put the key names in the table according to their form:
- •7. Translate the names of the keys on the extended keyboard and determine their functions:
- •Find the answers in the text:
- •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
- •Give Russian equivalents to the word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text: using disks and disk drives
- •Read and translate texts: Labeling and Caring for a Floppy Disk
- •Protecting Information on a Floppy Disk
- •Inserting and Removing a Floppy Disk
- •Personal Computer (pc)
- •Read and translate the text: 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:
- •Read and translate the text: 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:
- •Find in the text and translate the following words with the dictionary. Learn the words:
- •Read and translate the texts: looking at operating system What is ms-dos?
- •Find the appropriate English forms for the following
- •Unit XI
- •1. Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: using files and directories
- •3. Find in the text sentences with the subordinate clause. Read and explain the rule. Translate these sentences.
- •4. Find in the text sentences written in different tenses.
- •5. Translate the following computer messages:
- •Unit XII
- •Organizing Files into Directories
- •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
- •Read and learn the words:
- •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
- •Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: operating systems
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Speak about operating systems.
- •5. Discuss what operating system is the most popular and useful and why? unit XV
- •1. Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: windows 95
- •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?
- •Find the meaning of the words. Learn the words:
- •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
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Speak on arithmetic and logical assignment statements in fortran.
- •Read and speak about the elements of programming. The elements of programming
- •8. Read and translate the text:
- •1. Read and learn the new words:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Introduction to the www and the internet
- •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. 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
- •Read and learn the new words:
- •Read and translate the text: my future profession
- •Translate into English:
- •4. Add to your vocabulary:
- •5. How do you see your future profession? Please answer the following questions:
- •2. Put the following sentences in plural and write them down.
- •3. Use the Possessive Case of the Nouns:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Open the brackets using the right form of adjectives:
- •6. Translate the sentences:
- •12. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form. Use Past Tenses:
- •13. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form:
9. Questions for group discussion:
1) Some people think that Internet is very harmful, especially for young people, because it carries a lot of information about sex, drugs, violence and terrorism. Do you think that some kind of censorship is necessary on the WWW?
2) World famous authors and publishers say that the Internet violates their copyright because Web-programmers put all kinds of books, pictures, music, films and programs free on the Internet and this reduces their sales and profits.
3) Has anyone in your group experience working on the Internet?
Ask them 1) about the difficulties they had; 2) useful information retrieved; 3) fun they got? Why so few people have experience working on the Internet?
4) When and why the Internet was developed?
5) What purposes does the Internet serve nowadays?
10. Read the text and render in English: Bill Gates
William Henry Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955. He is an American business executive, chairman and chief executive officer of the Microsoft Corporation. Gates was the founder of Microsoft in 1975 together with Paul Alien, his partner in computer language development. While attending Harvard in 1975, Gates together with Alien developed a version of the BASIC computer programming language for the first personal computer.
In the early 1980s, Gates led Microsoft's evolution from the developer of computer programming languages to a large computer software company. This transition began with the introduction of MS-DOS, the operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer in 1981. Gates also led Microsoft towards the introduction of application software such as the Microsoft Word processor. Much of Gates' success is based on his ability to translate technical visions into market strategy. Although Gates has accumulated great wealth from his holdings of Microsoft stock, he has been known as a tough competitor who seems to value winning in a competitive environment over money. Gates continues to work personally in product development at Microsoft.
UNIT XX
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Read and learn the new words:
to comprise — включать в себя
automated manufacturing of products — автоматизированное производство товаров
robotics — робототехника
cheap — дешевый
to generate — генерировать, производить
scale — масштаб
unprecedented in history — не имеющий прецедентов в истории
explosive — взрывной
to deal with — иметь дело с, заниматься чем-либо
application — приложение, использование
Fourier analysis — анализ Фурье
linear systems theory — теория линейных систем
linear algebra — линейная алгебра
differential equations — дифференциальные уравнения
probability theory — теория вероятности
fibre optics — оптоволоконные технологии
immunity — защищенность, невосприимчивость
carrying capacity — пропускная способность
superconducting — сверх проводимость
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Read and translate the text: my future profession
Hi, there! Here is Ann Sokolova. I am afraid this will be my last meeting with you because I need to pack my suitcase. I am leaving for Sochi tonight. I have passed all the exams successfully and I'm free till the 1st of September.
As I have already told you, I was always good in mathematics and physics. My parents bought me a computer when I was in the 10th form. Since then I knew that I would become a specialist in computer technologies — a computer engineer.
Computer industry is developing so fast, that it comprises almost all spheres of professional life. No business now is possible without computers. This is especially true about automated manufacturing of products and robotics. Computer control of automated production opens new horizons for the cheap and quality production of goods. Information is now generated, transmitted, received, and stored electronically through computer networks on a scale unprecedented in history, and there is every indication that the explosive rate of growth in this field will continue.
Computer engineering is a general field. It deals with both electric and electronic industries.
Electronic engineering deals with the research, design, integration, and application of circuits and devices used in the transmission and processing of information.
Engineers in the field of electric and electronic engineering are concerned with all aspects of electrical communications, from fundamental questions such as «What is information?» to the highly practical, such as the design of telephone systems. In designing communication systems, engineers rely on various branches of advanced mathematics, such as Fourier analysis, linear systems theory, linear algebra, differential equations, and probability theory.
Engineers work on control systems, which are used extensively in automated manufacturing and in robotics.
Major developments in the field of communications and control have been the replacement of analogue systems with digital systems; fibre optics is used now instead of copper cables. Digital systems offer far greater immunity to electrical noise. Fibre optics is likewise immune to interference; they also have great carrying capacity, and are extremely light and inexpensive to manufacture.
Computer engineering is now the most rapidly growing field. The electronics of computers is the design and manufacture of memory systems, of central processing units, and of peripheral devices. The prospective industry now is the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and new computer architectures. The field of computer science is closely related to computer engineering; however, the task of making computers more «intelligent» (artificial intelligence), through creation of sophisticated programs or development of higher-level machine languages or other means, is generally regarded as the dream of computer science.
One current trend in computer engineering is microminiaturization. Engineers continue to work to fit greater and greater numbers of circuit elements onto smaller and smaller chips.
Another trend is towards increasing the speed of computer operations with parallel processors and superconducting materials.
Therefore, as you see, there are many employment opportunities in my field. I do not worry about finding a job. The most important thing for me now is to study well and to graduate from the Academy.