- •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.
2.12 A) Translate the following words. B) Give some examples from the dictionary.
To speculate; to lift; to move; to cut; to shape; to develop; to aid; the tools of communication; are designed; to serve our minds; to transmit; information; to preserve; to modify; to consider; to distort; to classify, to single out, to appear; abacus, the counting frame; rather than, merely; the so-called mind tools; the widespread use; forerunner.
2.13 Match the antonyms (there may be more then two of them).
1) a defect / an ancestor / intelligence / in ancient times / clever / widely / until
2) a descendant / a virtue / in modern times / brute strength / after / in recent times / strong / limited / tightly / narrowly
b) Give antonyms to: descendants / automated machine / exception / to transmit / reliable / sufficient / in the early 19th century
2.14 A) Match the synonyms (there are more than two of them).
1) Information-processing machines / an ancestor / device / development / sophisticated / widely.
2) Over a large area / mind tools / refined / keen / a forerunner / to a large extent / machine / instrument / invention
b) Give synonyms to: to aid / strength / to speculate / to lift / to manufacture / precision / to perfect / in recent times / pattern / to develop / tool
2.15 Find the answers to the questions below in text 2c.
1. What do we use tools for? 2. What is technology? 3. Our ape-like ancestors were already putting technology to use, weren’t they? 4. Why did these creatures evolve into human beings? 5. What count for more in a tool-using society: manual dexterity and intelligence or brute strength? 6. Who inherited the earth: the clever or the strong? 7. What most of the tools have aided: our bodies or our minds? 8. When did we develop tools to aid our minds? 9. What device were mechanical calculators replaced by in recent times? 10. What is main difference between the tools of communication and the computers / calculators (the so-called mind tools)? 11. What devices are may be called the more important forerunners of the computer? 12. What is the Latin word for pebble, from which we get the words abacus and calculate? 13. What people contributed to the development of mechanical calculators? 14. What were the calculators Pascal and Leibniz built? Why? 15. What were most information processing machines designed to do until modern times? 16. What was Jacquard's automated loom designed for? 17. When did Jacquard looms come into widespread use? 18. What is it the ancestor of?
2.16 Match the beginnings & the endings.
Tools are any objects that …
When you use a screwdriver, a hammer, or an axe…
We tend to think of technology as …
But the reverse is…
The abacus is the counting frame…
Early versions of the abacus consisted of …
Calculators more sophisticated …
Blaise Pascal & Wilhelm von Leibniz ...
The mechanical technology of the time was…
The Latin word for pebble is…
Mechanical calculators …
The widespread use of machines for information processing is …
a board with grooves in which pebbles could slide.
a human invention.
closer to the truth.
a modern development.
whose use persisted into modern times in the Orient.
you are using technology.
we use to help us do our work.
calculus, from which we get the words abacus and calculate.
than the abacus began to appear.
usually are singled out as pioneers.
not capable of manufacturing the parts with sufficient precision.
were replaced by electronic calculators in recent times.