- •Unit 1 computer applications
- •Computers
- •What can computers do?
- •Unit 2 computer essentials
- •What is a computer?
- •Unit 3 inside the system
- •What’s inside a pc system?
- •Structure of the processor
- •Unit 4 bits and bites
- •Units of memory
- •Unit 5 magnetic drives
- •Technical details
- •Unit 6 optical breakthrough
- •Optical disks and drives
- •Iomega's removable drives
- •Unit 7 input / output devices
- •Voice recording device h. Keyboard
- •Unit 8 capture your favourite image
- •Vivid easy-to-use faster fashionable wide shots
- •Unit 9 viewing the output
- •The monitor
- •Unit 10 choosing a printer
- •Types of printers
- •Unit 11 operating systems Exercise 1.Look at the diagram below. What is the function of the operating system?
- •Exercise 4. Language work
- •Unit 12 the graphical user interface
- •Unit 13 a walk through word processing
- •Word-processing facilities
- •Unit 14 spreadsheets
- •Unit 15 databases
- •Basic features of database programs
- •Exercise 6. Writing
- •Unit 16 faces of the internet
- •Exercise 2. Maybe we can find it on the Internet.
- •Exercise 3. Reading.
- •Internet software
- •Irc, audio and video chatting
- •MIrc for Windows is a typical Internet relay chat program. You can get it at http://www.Mirc.Co.Uk/
- •Unit 17 programming and languages
- •Programs and programming languages
- •Exercise 3. These are answers to questions about the text. Write the questions.
- •Variables and the Declaration Statement
- •Unit 18 computer networks
- •Computer networks
- •Network configurations
- •4 Bus/Ethernet
- •Unit 19 computer viruses
- •How computer viruses work
- •Unit 20 computers in the office
- •Information systems
- •Using Computers
- •Information Technology (it)
- •Exercise 5. Link each statement (1-) with a purpose (a-j).
- •Exercise 6. Match the words from the box with their definitions.
- •The future? We’re virtually there!
Exercise 6. Writing
Imagine that you are Barry Stephens, the sales manager of Sunrise Computers.
Write а standard letter to your clients about ‘New software products on the market’ and offer them а free demonstration disk.
Consult the help box.
Help box BUSINESS LETTER The conventions and the components of basic business letters
Writer’s
address
Date
Reference
Recipient’s address
Salutation
Main body
of letter
Subscription
Signature
Designation
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Unit 16 faces of the internet
Exercise 1. Try to answer these questions.
What is the Internet?
What can you do on the Internet?
Make a list of possible applications.
3. How has the Internet changed the way people study/work/live?
4. Do you think the Internet will have an important influence on your daily life in future?
A program like Microsoft Internet Explorer allows you to search view and manage information over the Web.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
Exercise 2. Maybe we can find it on the Internet.
Words |
Meanings |
online |
using an Internet service |
browse |
go from place to place and look around |
web browser |
a service that helps you travel on the Internet |
search engine |
a service that helps you look for something specific on the Internet |
World Wide Web |
a part of the Internet where you find most of what you are looking for |
web site |
a location or destination on the Internet |
web page |
one screen, or “page”, of information on a web site |
URL |
an Internet address for finding a web site; for example, the URL for the Dominie Press web site is www.dominie.com |
www. |
an abbreviation for World Wide Web; appears at the beginning of most Internet addresses |
.com |
an abbreviation at the end of an Internet address, indicates that the web site is a commercial site; that is, it was put on the Internet by a company |
password |
a word or string of letters that only you know |
log on |
begin using an Internet service (type your password and so on) |
go to |
select an item on the screen; for example, “Go to Search on the toolbar.” |
Exercise 3. Reading.
А Which Internet utility (1 to 7) would you use to do each of these tasks (а to g)? Read the text to check your answers.
е-mail а send а message tо another person via the Internet
Web browser b transfer files from the Internet to your hard disk
Newsreader с have а live conversation (usually typed) on the Internet
IRC/chat program d connect tо а remote computer by entering certain instructions and run programs on it
FTP software е take part in public discussion areas, called newsgroups
Videoconferencing f fetch and view Web pages on the Internet
Telnet g participate in live conversations, using text, audio and video