- •What is a computer?
- •Read and memorize the following words and expressions. Translate the sentences:
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and translate the text: what is the computer?
- •Translate into Ukrainian:
- •Find in the text English equivalents for the following:
- •Make up sentences:
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи
- •1. Fill in the blanks with the necessary words:
- •Match the word with corresponding definition:
- •From the history of computer
- •Read and memorize the following words and expressions:
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and translate the text: from the history of computer
- •Translate into Ukrainian:
- •Say what we can do with the help of a computer:
- •Say whether these statements are true or false. If some of them are false, give your version using the following expressions:
- •I disagree; to my mind; in my opinion; as far as I know; I think; It’s absolutely wrong; etc.
- •List the difference between digital, analogue and hybrid computers. Завдання для самостійної роботи
- •Find in the text English equivalents of the following:
- •2. Give synonyms to the words in bold type:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
- •Communication with computer
- •1. Read and memorize the following words and expressions:
- •2. Learn the following phrases:
- •3. Read and translate the text: communication with computer
- •4. Find in the text the sentences in which the following words and phrases are used and translate them into Ukrainian:
- •Answer the following questions using the following expressions:
- •6. Translate into English:
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи (communication with computer)
- •1. Fill in the blanks with a suitable words:
- •2. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •3. Put questions to the words in bold type:
- •Computers in our life
- •Exercises for home reading (computers in our life)
- •Answer the following questions:
- •The software and the hardware exercises
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and translate the text: the software and the hardware
- •Translate into Ukrainian:
- •Say whether these statements are true or false. If some of them are false, give your version using the following expressions:
- •I disagree; to my mind; in my opinion; as far as I know; I think; it’s absolutely wrong; etc.
- •Put questions to the words in bold type:
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи (the sotftware and the hardware)
- •Find in the text English equivalents of the following:
- •Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
- •Translate the following sentences into English:
- •Electronic mail exercises
- •Read and memorize the following words and expressions:
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and translate the text: electronic mail
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи (electronic mail)
- •Find in the text English equivalents:
- •Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
- •Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •The internet exercises
- •Read and memorize the following words and expressions:
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and translate the text: the internet
- •Translate into Ukrainian:
- •Say whether these statements are true or false. If some of them are false, give your version using the following expressions:
- •I disagree; to my mind; in my opinion; as far as I know; I think; it’s absolutely wrong; etc.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи (the internet)
- •Find in the text English equivalents:
- •Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
- •Make the following sentences complete:
- •Computer memory
- •Exercises for home reading (computer memory)
- •The computer as a communications tool exercises
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and translate the text: the computer as a communications tool
- •Translate the following sentences:
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи
- •Find in the text English equivalents:
- •Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
- •Input; circuits; control; output; memory; programmer; area
- •3. Translate into Ukrainian and answer the questions:
- •Exercises
- •Read and memorize the following words and expressions:
- •Learn the following phrases:
- •Read and retell the text:
- •Translate into Ukrainian:
- •Read and dramatize the following dialogues:
- •Завдання для самостійної роботи
- •Put questions to the words in bold type:
- •Program structure
- •Exercises for home reading (program structure)
- •Translate the following expressions:
- •Correct the following false statements using information from the text:
- •Complete the following sentences:
Read and translate the text: what is the computer?
A computer is a machine in many ways similar to other machines. It runs on electricity. It contains a number of parts that work together. It’s designed to perform certain tasks.
So far we could just as easily be describing a hair dryer, a power drill, or an electric lawnmower as a computer. What is it that makes the computer special?
Several things. First, computers are fast. Not sixty-miles-per-hour fast. Blink-of-an-eye fast. Think about this: a “slow” computer can add hundreds of thousands of numbers per second. In fact, when computer users discuss computer speed, they often don’t even use the word second. They talk in terms of microseconds or nanoseconds. How small a unit of time do this term refer to? Well – a second contains one million microseconds or one billion nanoseconds.
Besides being incredibly fast, computers are also extremely reliable. The average person using a pencil and paper to do arithmetic might make one or more mistakes in an hour. After several hours of work, the person would get tired and probably make more mistakes. By comparison, a computer can do arithmetic more quickly and more accurately, and it can continue working for hours or days at a time. Long after any human would have fallen asleep at his desk, the computer would still be calculating along – without so much as a yawn!
A third feature of computers that makes them unique machines is that they can receive, store, and use information and instructions that you give them. What other machines can you think of that are able to do all that? (Careful, now – don’t include machines containing microprocessors!) Can an ordinary mechanical typewriter, for example, remember tomorrow the letter you type today? A computer can – and, at your command, it can reproduce that same letter ten times, addressed to ten different people!
Notes:
certain [‘sə:tn] звичайний
lawnmower [lo:n’məuə] газонокосарка
to add [æd] додавати
to refer to [ri’fə:] відноситися
incredibly [in’kredəbli] неймовірно
yawn [jo:n] позіхання
so far we could just as easily be describing … не так давно ми легко могли описати ...
per-hour за годину
blink-of-an-eye миттєвий
unit of time одиниця часу, відрізок часу
Translate into Ukrainian:
similar; runs on electricity; contains; perform; power drill, electric lawnmower; blink-of-an-eye; speed; unit of time; besides; extremely; average person; by comparison; feature; unique; ordinary; typewriter; reproduce.
Find in the text English equivalents for the following:
додавати, без позіхань, працюють разом, не так давно, за годину, користувачі, неймовірно швидкий, потужний, швидкість, ймовірно, рахувати, отримувати, зберігати, використовувати інформацію, команда.