- •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.
3.22 Define the -ed form & translate the sentences.
1. The method described in his paper helped to increase the speed of operation. 2. Input devices developed in this laboratory operated very well. 3. The new system developed provided great reliability. 4. Information produced by such an output unit as printer is called a hard copy. 5. The electronic device designed by this group of scientists increased the speed of processing information. 6. In the late 1960s, integrated circuits began to be used for high-speed memory. 7. The trend toward integrated-circuit memory has continued until today, when it has largely replaced magnetic-core memory. 8. The most recent jump in computer technology came with the introduction of large-scale integrated circuits, often referred to simply as chips. 9. Whereas the older integrated circuits contained hundred of transistors, the new ones contain thousands or tens of thousands. 10. All these recent developments have resulted in a microprocessor revolution. 11. EDVAC's program was stored in the machine's memory, just like the data. 12.vacuum tubes used in ENIAC made it bulky and expensive. 13. With increased use of computers, their structure changed to meet new requirements.
3.23 Put in the proper words from the following list: analytical, digital, unreliable, sophisticated, solve, core, processor, computations, an integral circuit.
1. The Difference Engine could ... equations and led to another calculating machine, the ... Engine, which embodied the key parts of a computer system: an input device, a ..., a control unit, a storage place, and an output device. 2. Ada Lovelace helped to develop instructions for carrying out ... on Babbage machine. 3. J. Atanasoff devised the first... computer to work by electronic means. 4. First-generation computers were ..., the main form of memory being magnetic... 5. In the third generation software became more... . 6. What was the name of the first ... computer to work electronically? 7. When electricity passed through the ..., it could be magnetized as either "off' or "on". 8.A ... is a complete electronic circuit on a small chip of silicon.
Text 3C Computers in our country
a) Read the text without a dictionary.
A little over some decades ago computers were large, not very reliable and slow in operation. Since then, several generations of complex electronic computing machines have been developed. The use of advanced components of hardware provides modern generation of computers with super-high speed of operation (billions operations per second).
In our country computers development began with the MESM machine, conceived and constructed by academician Lebedev in Kiev. This machine was the first sequence-controlled electronic computer developed in continental Europe. Some years later digital computers BESM, URAL, RASDAH, KIEV, EM series and many others were constructed by Soviet scientists.
All these digital computers have the same basic units: input-output units, storage or memory unit, arithmetic unit and control unit. Research and development of all these computer units continue and tend to make them the smaller and the cheaper the better.
b) Make up dialogues using the information of Unit 3.
3.24 Make a timeline (временная последовательность) map.
Times |
Inventions/ Developments |
Inventors |
Recent times; 17th century; World War II; thousands of years ago; in 1944; 19th century; early 20th century; after World War II; in 1820; in 1830; in 1930; in 1946; in 1947; in 1950; in 1960; in 1965; in 1987. |
Analytical Engine; Abacus; the ten fingers of a man's hands; ENIAC/vacuum tubes; Primitive calculating devices; transistors, printed circuits, microchips; calculus, another branch of mathematics, the second generation of computers; the third-generation computers; Fourth-generation computers; Stored programs; Mechanical calculator; Punched card; First computer program; First PC; First digital computer; Mark I; the modern slide rule; the first real calculating machine; the first analog computer; UNIVAC I. |
Von Neumann; Pascal (Leibniz); Herman Hollerith; Charles Babbage; J.Napier Henry Briggs; George Boole; both Sir Isaac Newton & Leibniz; Ada Lovelace; Professor Howard Aiken and some people from IBM; Jobs & Wozniak; Atanasoff & Berry; unknown; Vannevar Bush; John von Newmann; J. Eckert & J. Maushly. |
Dialogues 3.25 Role-play the dialogues.
a) The Stored Program Concept
Do you know the computer's ability to call in instructions and follow them is known as the stored program concept?
Really? How does it work?
Instructions are copied into memory from a disk, tape or other source before any data can be processed. The computer is directed to start with the first instruction in the program. It copies the instruction from memory into its control unit circuit and matches it against its built-in set of instructions.
What for?
If the instruction is valid, the processor carries it out. If not, the computer comes to an abnormal end (abend, crash). The computer executes instructions sequentially until it finds a GOTO instruction.
What kind of instruction is it?
The GOTO instruction tells it to go to a different place in the program. It can execute millions of instructions per second tracing the logic of the program over and over again on each new set of data it brings in.
So fast!
As computers get faster, operations can be made to overlap1.
How can the computer manage to carry out several tasks at a time?
While one program is waiting for input from one user, the operating system (master control program) directs the computer to process data in another program.
You mean there exist any computers that are able to process the data of several users at a time?
Sure, large computers are designed to allow inputs and outputs to occur simultaneously with processing. While one user's data is being processed, data from the next user can be retrieved into the computer. It can take hundreds of thousands of discrete machine steps to perform very routine tasks. Your computer could easily execute a million instructions to put a requested record on screen for you.
That’s incredible! And how big a computer can be?
computers come in many sizes. Computers are as small as a chip or as large as a truck. The difference is in the amount of work they do within the same time frame. Its power is based on many factors, including word size and the speed of its CPU, memory and peripherals.
NB: 1overlap - заходить (один на другой); (частично) совпадать.
b) Computers step by step
I know that first-generation computers, starting with the UNIVAC I in 1951, used vacuum tubes, and their memories were made of thin tubes of liquid mercury and magnetic drums. And what do you know about second-generation computers?
Second-generation systems in the late 1950s replaced tubes with transistors and used magnetic cores for memories For example, IBM 1401, Honeywell 800. Their size was reduced and reliability was significantly improved.
As far as I remember, the third-generation computers, beginning in the mid 1960s, used the first integrated circuits.
Yes, they were such machines as IBM 360, CDC 6400, the first operating systems, and DBMSs. Online systems were widely developed, although most processing was still batch oriented using punched cards and magnetic tapes.
I don’t know the term ‘batch processing’. What does it mean?
‘Batch processing’ is processing a group of transactions at one time. Transactions are collected and processed against the master files at the end of the day or some other time period. This term is used in contrast with ‘transaction processing’ that means processing transactions as they are received by the computer. Also called online or realtime systems, transaction processing means that master files are updated as soon as transactions are entered at terminals or received over communications lines. Information systems typically use both batch and transaction processing methods.
Thanks for your explanations.
Starting in the mid 1970s, the fourth generation brought us computers made entirely of chips. It spawned1 the microprocessor and personal computer. It introduced distributed processing and office automation. Query languages, report writers and spreadsheets put large numbers of people in touch with the computer for the first time. By the way, do you know exactly what does the term ‘query language’ mean?
No, I’m afraid I don’t. Do you?
Yes, ‘query language’ is a generalized language that allows a user to select records from a database. It uses a command language, menu-driven method or a Query By Example (QBE) format for expressing the matching condition.
I see. And what generation computers are being designed nowadays? And what are their distinguishing features?
The fifth generation ought to become visible by the mid 1990s with the more widespread use of voice recognition, natural and foreign language translation, optical disks and fiber optic networks. Higher-speed machines combined with more sophisticated software will enable the average computer to talk to us with reasonable intelligence by the early years of the 21st century.
I believe the game isn't over. More surprises are in store.
You are undoubtedly right.
NB: 1spawn - плодить, порождать.