- •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:
Learn the following phrases:
to stay in touch with бути пов’язаним з
host computers базові комп’ютери
reliable alternative надійна альтернатива
local service providers місцеві провайдери
to cover cost of покрити затрати
to save money заощадити гроші
drastically increase радикально зрости
garment center центр пошиття одягу
computer-aided-design specialist комп’ютерний дизайнер
computers-routers маршрутизатори
in spite of the fact that незважаючи на те, що
in the clear в чистому вигляді
take time to be resolved потребують часу для вирішення
Read and translate the text: the internet
The Internet, a global computer tetwork which embraces millions of users all over the world, began in the United States in 1969 as a military experiment. It was designed to servive a nuclear war. Information sent over the Internet takes the shortest path available from one computer to another. Because of this, any two computers on the Internet will be able to stay in touch with each other as long as there is a single route between them. This technology is called packet switching. Owing to this technology, if some computers on the network are knocked out (by a nuclear explosion, for example), information will just route around them. One such packet-swithing network wich has already survived a war is the Iraqi computer network which was not knocked out during the Gulf War.
Most of the Internet host computers (more than 50%) are in the United States, while the rest are located in more than 100 other countries. Although the number of host computers can be counted fairly accurately, nobody knows exactly how many people use the Internet, there are millions worldwide, and their number is growing by thousands each month.
The most popular Internet service is e-mail. Most of the people, who have access to the Internet, use the network only for sending and receiving e-mail messages. However, other popular services are available on the Internet: reading USENET News, using the World-Wide Web, Telnet, FTP and Gopher.
In many developing countries the Internet may provide businessmen with a reliable alternative to the expensive and unreliable telecommunications systems of these countries. Commercial users can communicate cheaply over the Internet with the rest of the world. When they send e-mail messages, they only have to pay for phone calls to their local service providers, not for calls across their countries or around the world. But who accually pays for sending e-mail messages over the Internet long distances, around the world? The answer is very simple: users pay their service provider a monthly or hourly fee. Part of this fee goes towards its costs to connect to a larger service provider, and part of the fee received by the larger provider goes to cover its cost of running a worldwide network of wires and wireless stations.
But saving money is only the first step. If people see that they can make money from the Internet, commercial use of this network will drastically increase. For example, some western architecture companies and garment centers already transmit their basic designs and concepts over the Internet into China, where they are reworked and refined by skilled – but expensive – Chinese computer-aided-design specialists.
However, some problems remain. The most important is security. When you send an e-mail message to somebody, this message can travel through many different networks and computers. The data is constantly being directed towards its destination by special computers called routes. However, because of this, it is possible to get into any of the computers along the rout, intercept and even change the data being sent over the Internet. In spite of the fact that there are many good encoding programs available, nearly all the information being sent over the Internet is transmitted without any form of encoding, i.e. „in the clear”. But when it becomes necessary to send important information over the network, these encoding programs may be useful. Some American banks and companies even conduct transactions over the Internet. However, there are still both commercial and technical problems which will take time to be resolved.