- •Unit 1 history of computer engineering
- •Vocabulary
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Watching
- •Hardware history overview
- •Find and learn Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •3. Create a wordfinder for any 20 computer terms using the following website:
- •Look at these sentences from the article, underline and name the Passive forms:
- •Find and underline other examples in the text.
- •Find the mistakes and correct the sentence.
- •Make up another sentence with the same meaning using passive structures.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •Translate the following sentences into English.
- •10. Answer the following questions.
- •What the first computer originally was?
- •Unit 2
- •Information is a fundamental property of the world around
- •Vocabulary
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Watching
- •Now watch a video ‘What is information?’ and mark True (t) or False (f).
- •1. Discuss with your partner the following questions.
- •Skim the text to check your ideas.
- •What is information?
- •Find and learn Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Information
- •Find and underline other examples in the text.
- •Find the mistakes and correct the sentence.
- •Use the prompts to make conditional sentences.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Topics for discussion.
- •Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
- •Unit 3 m Vocabulary easuring amount of information
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Watching
- •Nasa Kids Science News segment explains the difference between bits and bytes.Now watch a video ‘What’s the difference between bits and bytes?’ and mark True (t) or False (f).
- •Discuss with your partner the following question.
- •Skim the text to check your ideas.
- •How bits & bytes work
- •Find and learn Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and underline other examples of participles in the text.
- •Underline the correct item.
- •Find the mistakes and correct the sentence.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Topics for discussion.
- •Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
- •Standard ascii Character Set
- •Unit 4 m vocabulary icrosoft office
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Watching
- •Before you read
- •Discuss with your partner the following question.
- •Skim the text to check your ideas. Reading microsoft software suit
- •Find and learn Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn the definitions for the following abbreviations.
- •Find the example of this structure in the text and translate the sentence.
- •Complete the following sentences with the right preposition.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Topics for discussion.
- •References, useful links and further reading references and further reading Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
- •Unit 5 electronic dictionaries & machine translation
- •Vocabulary
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Watching
- •Find and learn Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find, underline and translate the other examples in the text.
- •Make compound nouns from the following words and phrases. Use the text above if necessary.
- •Find the mistakes and correct the sentence.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •Speaking section
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Topics for discussion.
- •Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
- •Vocabulary numeral systems
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Watching
- •Watch a video ‘Number Systems’, discuss with your partner and find the true answer to the following question:
- •Before you read
- •Discuss with your partner the following question.
- •What are people using the Number system for?
- •Skim the text to check your ideas.
- •Different systems of numeration
- •Language development
- •Find and learn Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Find and learn English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •Integer
- •Find, underline and translate the other examples in the text.
- •Find the mistakes and correct the sentence.
- •Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Topics for discussion.
- •Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
Speaking section
Answer the following questions.
Why they say that the history of MT began in 1666?
What was the main purpose of the meeting between Weaver and A.D. Booth?
How did the earliest “translation engines” work?
What do we need to do to process any translation?
What is the difference between bilingual and multilingual systems?
What does rule-based machine translation rely on?
What does statistical machine translation utilize?
Are there any advantages or disadvantages of rule-based and statistical MTs?
Topics for discussion.
Machine Translation.
Electronic Dictionaries.
Internet Translation Engines.
Prepare a presentation on the topic being discussed.
REFERENCES, USEFUL LINKS AND FURTHER READING
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
‘How computer works’, by Ron White, 2008, pp.8-9.
Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn. Analysing the effect of out-of-domain data on SMT systems.-Edinburgh.-2009.
Unit 6
Vocabulary numeral systems
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[ˌhɛksə'dɛsɪm(ə)l]
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Watching
Watch a video ‘Number Systems’, discuss with your partner and find the true answer to the following question:
Who were the true inventors of Number system?
Before you read
Discuss with your partner the following question.
What are people using the Number system for?
Skim the text to check your ideas.
Reading
Reading
READING