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5.This application offer both internet and gaming acceleration. It can quickly _____hance your computing experience with a single click of a button.

6.You should know that too many little icons can easily _____tract your website visitors.

7._____loading usually refers to transfer from a larger "host" system to a smaller "client" system, and "_____load" usually means to transfer data or files from a peripheral or subordinate system to a larger or more central one.

8.Is it possible to create a simple image map with _____bedded hyperlinks that I can use online?

9._____learning is pedagogy _____powered by digital technology.

10.Their aim is to make sure that every home becomes Internet _____abled in the next 10 years.

GRAMMAR FOCUS: Participle II

8. Translate the sentences into Russian and define the functions of Participles. If you need help use

GRAMMAR FILES 7 (p. 114).

1.Multimedia technologies, whether delivered online or offline, offer significant advantages over alternative communications mediums.

2.Interested users may sign up to receive future information concerning electronically delivered products via e-mail.

3.A new web based program for MP3 files runs silently in the background and can be accessed by any machine on your local network.

4.The word “play” suggests different notions to a child, an actor or a footballer, and has in

their speech different meaning. The same applies to the word “track” as used by a pilot, a sportsman, DJ or the word “keyboard” as understood by a programmer, a musician or a telephone operator.

5.In the 24-bit mode, the digital data is recorded onto the internal hard drive as 32-bit data, ensuring even higher recording and playback quality.

6.If used in a computer based training environment, the students’ computer can be connected to the A input, whilst the teacher computer can be connected to the B input.

7.Computer graphic designs are picture images created and manipulated digitally on computers.

8.Certain videos are empty when downloaded. Why does it happen?

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COMPREHENSION CHECK

13. Reread the text, tick the “false” sentences and correct them.

Multimedia represents a combination of media including video, coded representation, audio, printed text in such a way that can be accessed interactively.

Linear multimedia is characterized by the absence of navigational control for the viewer.

Online multimedia contains not only photo galleries with both images and title user-updated, but also displayonly illustrations, animations and videos.

A computer-based training course is a set of texts, illustrations and multimedia presentations.

When users browse through an Internet page they have to create a

“predictable structure of mental model of information”.

The style of writing in the Web is highly refined and designed to greatly impress readers.

Haptic technology enhances the multimedia experience.

Being an example of linear content hypermedia offers users certain interactivity.

In Education, reference books are still produced without any multimedia content.

Several multimedia formats are intended to make it easier and faster to convey information.

Any website should be characterized by distinct continuity between the elements and subsections of the multimedia production.

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SPECIALIST READING B: Multimedia Web Design

14. Scan the text, identify different parts and entitle them.

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WRITING: Summary

16. Summarize the general ideas of text B:

Multimedia Web Design. Follow these This text goes under the headline...

steps:

1. Read the text again.

2.Underline the relevant information in each paragraph.

3.Make notes about the main points. Leave out details such as examples.

4.Make sentences from the notes and link the sentences with connectors (and, but, because, therefore, etc.).

5.Write your first draft.

6.Improve your first draft by reducing sentences. For example:

cut out unnecessary phrases;

omit qualifying words (adjectives or modifying adverbs);

transform relative clauses into -ing participle clauses

7.Write the final version of your summary.

8.Don't forget to check the spelling and grammar.

SPEAKING: Multimedia applications

17. Prepare a report and take part in a round table discussion on the topic “Multimedia applications”. Pay attention to the following points:

1.Online multimedia.

2.Edutainment applications and CBT courses.

3.Engineering multimedia applications.

4.Multimedia web design software.

5.Rich media components.

Use Supplementary reading section text “Rich media features” to express your opinion.

The following discourse markers may help you:

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Unit 8 Telecommunication

Suffixes -able, -ize Passive infinitives Telecommunication Satellite services Viewpoint adverbs

LEAD-IN: Telecommunication devices

1. Match the telecommunication devices with their implementations:

provides information to the viewer

provides communication as well as access of information and contribution of information via the internet

provides information to the listener

allows sending and receiving e-mails and SMS with a high level of security through on-device message encription

provides communication between individuals

provides access of information and contribution of information on the internet

allows wired communication devices to connect to a wireless network using Wi-Fi

is a device used to connect a computer or ... termination broad band adapter

uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network to establish a dialled connection to an Internet service provider via telephone lines

access (v) - a) to obtain or retrieve (information) from a storage device; b) to place (information) in a storage device: direct access, sequential access;

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4. Match the following words with their synonyms (A, B):

5. Match the following words with their equivalents in Russian:

6. Complete the puzzle using the clues.

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7. Match a verb in A with a noun in B:

WORD BUILDING: Suffixes -able, -ize

SUFFIX –ABLE is used to form the adjectives having the necessary power, resources, skill, time, opportunity, etc., to do something.

SUFFIX –IZE is used to form the verbs with the following meanings

1)to cause to become, resemble, or agree with

2)to become; change into

3)to affect in a specified way;

4)to act according to some practice, principle, policy

8.Form the adjectives from the following verb roots with suffix -able and translate them:

Example: drink – drinkable (пригодный для питья).

Wash, eat (!), suit, use, note, detect, operate, consume, count, enjoy, read, separate, love.

What do these words mean? Use it can ... or it can't... . Use a dictionary if necessary.

Example: If something is 1) washable, it can be washed.

If something is 2) unbreakable, it … If something is 3) edible, it …

If something is 4) unusable, … If something is 5) invisible, … If something is 6) portable, …

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9. Form the verbs with the help of the suffix −ize and translate them:

Customer – customize – изготовлять по техническим условиям заказчика (делать на заказ)

GRAMMAR FOCUS : Infinitive

10.Read and translate the following sentences paying attention to the Passive Infinitives. If you need help use GRAMMAR FILES 8 (p. 115).

1.The word "communication" has been used in a very broad sense, it includes all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another.

2.All kinds of distortions of sound to be conveyed by telephone communication are called noise.

3.In the mathematical theory of communication the word "information" to be used in a special sense must not be confused with its ordinary usage.

4.The conference to be held in Moscow will discuss questions dealing with communication problems.

5.There are Markoff processes to be widely involved in the theory of communication.

6.The effectiveness problem must have been concerned with the demands of the design.

7.Only one information must have been given at the moment.

8.Zero and one may have been taken symbolically to represent any two choices.

9.This subject will be dealt with in the next chapter.

10.A new type of computing equipment is being produced at our plant.

11.Rewrite these sentences. Instead of using 'somebody' or 'they', write a passive sentence.

1.Somebody has locked the computer. − The computer has been locked.

2.They have postponed the conference. The conference __________________________.

3.Somebody is using the computer at the moment. The computer __________________________.

4.I didn't realize that somebody was recording our conversation. I didn't realize that __________________.

5.When we got to the stadium we found that they had cancelled the game. When we got to the stadium, we found that __________________________.

6.They are building a new ring road round the city. __________________________.

7.They have built a new hospital near the airport. __________________________.

12. Complete these sentences with one of the following verbs in the correct form: carry cause do make repair send spend wake up. Sometimes you need have ('might have', 'could have' etc.).

1.The situation is serious. Something must be done before it's too late.

2.I haven't received the e-mail. It might _____________________ to the wrong address.

3.A decision will not _____________________ until the next meeting.

4.I told the hotel receptionist that I wanted to _____________________ at 6.30 the next morning.

5.Do you think that less money should _____________________ on equipment?

6.This net is in very bad condition. It should _____________________ a long time ago.

7.The injured man couldn't walk and had to _____________________.

8.It's not certain how the fire started but it might _____________________ by an electrical fault.

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