- •Учебное пособие
- •My future profession
- •Look at these job advertisements. Which of them would interest you? Why?
- •Then please ring Paul a. Lawrence on 266407 or write to him at
- •Ring 45326.
- •Vocabulary List
- •Personnel Officer – руководитель отдела кадров
- •Use these clues to help you fill in the puzzle and find the hidden word. You can find all the words in the newspaper advertisements.
- •This is a questionnaire (анкета, опросный лист) for applicants. Answer the following questions:
- •How long were you in your last job?
- •Here are some thoughts of a student about his future profession. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Vocabulary List
- •Hobby, addiction, or future job?
- •Look through the text and divide it into logical parts. Say: What do they deal with?
- •Computer studies?
- •Vocabulary List
- •Retell the last 2 paragraphs in the reported speech.
- •Can you confess to being an information junky. How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet?
- •Output data 7
- •Vocabulary List
- •Text III
- •To your health
- •Vocabulary List eyestrain – зрительное напряжение
- •Find in the text equivalents to:
- •Fill in the table:
- •A) Translate the following recommendations. B) Give your recommendations how to cope.
- •Related Reading
- •Skim over the texts and say: What are they about?
- •Choose the text which interests you, read it and give the summary of the text. Masters of invention
- •All the news that fit to click
- •Look through the text and divide it into logical parts. Say: What do they deal with?
- •Read the text and find out if these statements correspond to the content of the text:
- •Prehistory
- •Vocabulary List
- •Look through the text and divide it into logical parts. Say: What do they deal with?
- •Read the text and find out how many stages there were in the development of computers. Complete the table containing some information about the development of computers.
- •The development of computers
- •Vocabulary List
- •True or false? Express your opinion.
- •Text III
- •Babbage's dream come true
- •Vocabulary List
- •Complete the table:
- •Translate into English
- •Related Reading
- •1. Look through the text and divide it into logical parts. Say: What do they deal with?
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •Billion dollar brain
- •Vocabulary List
- •Topics to discuss
- •Personal computer Prereading Discussion
- •Look through the text and answer the questions.
- •Personal computer
- •Vocabulary List
- •Give the summary of the text.
- •Make up the topic “ The computers we use at the university”.
- •4. Topic to discuss.
- •Text II
- •Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •What is a computer?
- •Vocabulary List
- •Which of the listed above statements are true/ false. Specify your answer using the text.
- •Match the following:
- •Text III
- •Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Hardware
- •Vocabulary List
- •Which of the listed below statements are true/ false. Specify your answer using the text.
- •Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary.
- •Which of the following is Hardware?
- •Match the following:
- •Discuss in groups:
- •Text IV
- •Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Types of software
- •Vocabulary List
- •2. Which of the following is Software?
- •3. Which of the listed below statements are true/ false. Specify your answer using the text:
- •4. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •5. Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary:
- •6. Discuss in groups:
- •Operating systems Prereading Discussion
- •Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Operating systems
- •Vocabulary List
- •Match the following:
- •Which of the listed below statements are true or false? Specify your answer using the text.
- •Translate into English:
- •5. Discuss the following in groups:
- •Text II
- •1. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Windows 95
- •Vocabulary List
- •2. Which of the listed above statements are true/false. Specify your answer using the text.
- •Find the equivalents in the text:
- •What is:
- •Discuss in groups:
- •The internet Prereading Discussion
- •Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •The internet
- •Vocabulary List
- •Match the phrases with their Russian equivalents:
- •Find English equivalents to the following phrases:
- •Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Express your opinion to the following statements:
- •Text II
- •1. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •The www and the internet
- •Vocabulary List World Wide Web- “Всемирная Паутина”
- •2. Which of the listed below statements are true/ false. Specify your answer using the text.
- •3. Define the following using the vocabulary:
- •Find the equivalents:
- •5. Match the following:
- •6. Discuss in groups:
- •Text III
- •1. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •The language of e-mail
- •Vocabulary List
- •3. Write a summary of the text. Include only the information, ignore any extra remarks. Write in a neutral rather than an informal style.
- •7. Match these smileys to their meanings listed below:
- •Discuss:
- •Computer and crime Prereading Discussion
- •Skim over the text and say: What is it about?
- •Read the text and find out if these statements correspond to the content of the text:
- •The first hackers
- •Vocabulary List
- •Text II
- •Computer crimes
- •Vocabulary List
- •Find in the text the English equivalents to:
- •Analyze the underlined grammar constructions.
- •True or false?
- •Construct other sentences in these patterns (transitional expressions):
- •Text III Prereading Discussion
- •How many generations of hackers have there been?
- •Read the text and find out if these statements correspond to the content of the text:
- •Hackers of today
- •Vocabulary List
- •Analyze the underlined grammar constructions.
- •Translate into English. Хакеры: плохие или хорошие?
- •What is your opinion of hackers? Have you ever tried to break into else’s computer?
- •Viruses and vaccines Prereading Discussion
- •Read the articles from a newspaper and try to select the questions to the texts given below:
- •Vocabulary List
- •Analyze the underlined grammar constructions. Explain their use.
- •Give a short answer to each question. Text II.
- •Look through the text and divide it into logical parts. Say: What do they deal with?
- •Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Viruses and vaccines
- •Vocabulary List
- •Give a summary of the text.
- •A) Translate the following advices into English: Если вы используете компьютер в своем бизнесе, то вы должны иметь антивирусные программы и обновлять их постоянно.
- •Express your opinion to the statements:
- •Text III
- •Read the article from The Observer and find out if these statements correspond to the content of the text:
- •Viruses infect one email in every 300
- •Vocabulary List
- •Oa programmers
- •Oa программистов
- •Список использованной литературы
Vocabulary List
to conceive - представлять себе, задумывать
to point out – показывать, обращать внимание
to amaze – поражать, удивлять
obsolete – устаревший, выышедший из употребления
to render – приводить в к.-л. состояние
plug board – штекерная панель, коммутационная доска
switchboard – коммутатор
to specify – устанавливать, задавать
by far – намного
binary notation – двоичная система счисления
decimal notation – десятичная система счисления
ingenious – искусный, оригинальный, хитроумный
to circulate – циркулировать
column of mercury – столбик ртути
bulky – большой, громоздкий
to tie down – привязывать, связывать
latticework – решетка, сетка
to string – нанизывать
doughnut [`d∂unΛt] – баранка, пончик
bead – шарик, бусина
core – сердечник, ядро
core memory – память на магнитных сердечниках
to retrieve – восстановить, отыскать
encompassing – обобщающий
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Give Russian equivalents to:
a punched paper tape, complex mechanical linkages, success and failure, magnetic-core memory, high-speed memory, integrated circuit, integrated-circuit memory, large-scale integrated circuit, high-capacity integrated-circuit memory, protective package, general-purpose processor-on-a-chip.
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Give synonyms to:
bulky, simply, ongoing, linkage, to conceive, to anticipate, to be familiar with, fast, advanced, obsolete.
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Give antonyms to:
success, externally, to store, energy-consuming, cumbersome, expensive, binary notation, end in sight, obsolete.
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Answer the following questions:
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What was the main shortcoming of the Mark I and the other electromechanical computers?
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What is an acronym? Give examples of acronyms.
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What was the distinguishing feature of ENIAC?
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What were the two distinguishing features of EDVAC?
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What is a von Neumann machine?
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Describe the technological features characteristic of each computer generation.
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What type of computer memory was once so widely used that its name became almost synonymous with "high-speed memory"?
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What technological developments made (a) minicomputers and (b) microcomputers possible?
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Complete the table:
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Times |
Inventions/ Developments |
Inventors |
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thousands of years ago |
Abacus |
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17th century |
Mechanical calculator |
Paskual (Leibnitz) |
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19th century |
Analytical Engine Punched card |
Charles Babbage |
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early 20th century |
Primitive calculating devices |
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in 1944 |
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Aiken |
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World War II |
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Atanasoff / Berry Von Neumann |
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after World War II 40s – 50s |
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1948 |
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in the late 50s |
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1960s |
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mid1970s |
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recent times |
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