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2. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Justify your choice. Use the given phrases:

It’s right. Quite so.

I quite (fully) agree to it.

Certainly. Exactly.

I doubt that …

I don’t think so.

This is not the case.

It’s wrong, I am afraid.

Quite the reverse.

The definition is inappropriate.

1. It is easy to say what the future holds in store for information.

2. The machine can become cleverer than its creator.

3. The machine serves man, and not the other way round.

4. The principal use of computers has been in the area of applied mathematics.

5. Man’s technical progress is not reflected in the tools he has invented.

6. Informatics is a young science therefore it is not increasingly applied in various branches of industry and research.

3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is information?

2. Does the word “information” have a rather special definition in the discussions of computers?

3. In what way may information be recorded and manipulated in a large automatic electronic computer?

4. What does the term “informatics” designate?

5. How does informatics penetrate into the most widely different spheres of human activity?

6. Can the machine become “cleverer” than its creator?

7. Does machine replace man or serve him?

8. What is man’s technical progress reflected in?

9. What devices has man created from early times?

10. What devices has man developed with the advent of automatic digital computers?

11. What are the operations performed by computers?

12. Has the applications of computers to scientific problems become increasingly important? And why?

13. What do the scientists’ contributions to the progress of informatics consist of?

14. What theory does an important aspect of the work in informatics deal with?

15. What is informatics concerned with?

16. Can you name the problems which are under the scrutiny of informatics?

17. What branches of industry and research is informatics applied in?

18. What answer to two major questions does informatics endeavour to find?

4. Give the definitions of the terms “information” and “informatics”:

Information (data) is …

Informatics is …

Conversational Practice

1. Agree or disagree with the statement given below. Use the introductory phrases and develop the idea further. Use the following phrases:

I hold a similar view …

I share this viewpoint …

It’s correct to say …

This is a convincing argument …

I see no point at all to disagree that …

There is no point in denying that …

That doesn’t sound convincing enough …

Not quite so, I am afraid.

I don’t think this is just the case.

I doubt it. Far from that.

Just the other way round.

Not at all. Quite the reverse.

The definition is inappropriate.

1. For the time being, there is no unique, universally acceptable definitions of “information” and “informatics”. The formal informatics definition is: “Інформатика – наука про опис, осмислення, інтерпретацію, представлення, формалізацію і застосування знань за допомогою засобів обчислювальної техніки з метою пошуку нових знань у всіх сферах людської діяльності”. If you agree – translate the given definition into English, if you disagree – give your own version.