1. Discuss these questions with your partner.

a. How much time a week do you think you spend on the Internet?

b. What kind of websites do you use?

News websites

Shopping sites

Information sites

Social networking sites

e-Mail or messenger services

Search engines

Online gaming sites

Chat rooms and other types of forum

c. What are the popular social networking sites n our country? These are sites where

people have their own personal home page, and they are connected directly to friends.

d. Has there been a recent increase in the use of social networking sites? Do you use

any? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such sites?

e. What do you know about Facebook? ( read the article to get to know more about Facebook)

Vocabulary

Hear the following words while listening:

делиться интересами

иметь общее

добавлять

оказаться

загрузить

универсальный (многофункциональный)

поддаться (уступить)

подхватить( наверстать)

Match these words with their definitions:

a) can be used in many different ways

b) to give in to something; to be defeated by something

c) to add something to an Internet web page

d) to top up

e) to happen, to prove

f) to exchange

g) to take up, to nip up

h) to have smth general

Listening 2

Answer the questions:

1. How many specific sites are mentioned by name? What are the names?

2. What do these sites have in common?

3. Gavin gives example uses of one word from a social networking site. How many uses

4. does he give?. What are they?

5. 3. Which word except «facebook» is versatile?

6. Which word succumbs to these language changes?

Decide if the following statements are true or false:

a. People who use Myspace are generally not as old as people who use Facebook.

b. LinkedIn is for people with good jobs.

c. Sites like these have given new words such as adverbs and adjectives to the language.

d. «Myspace» has proven to be a less versatile word than «Facebook».

f. All three of the sites mentioned have provided some new words.

g. In this Internet context, ‘to comment’ means to leave a message for someone on their sites.

Unscramble the words:

Paolud, hsrea, cumbcus, mocomn, tilersave, dad, pa tuch.

LANGUAGE

1. There are many expressions and phrases which use the word ‘face’. Complete

the expressions below with words from the box. Use the definitions to help

you.

Value in straight pack earth face music can’t

a. to keep a ______ face: to not laugh or smile when you are playing a joke or trick on

someone; to hide your true feelings when playing a game such as poker.

b. face to ______: to meet someone in person to discuss something, rather than using

email or the telephone.

c. to accept something at face ______: to believe someone or something without

doubting it, or asking questions about the reasons behind something.

d. a face ______: something that you, usually women, put on your face to clean it and

make it fresh. It looks like mud, and you leave it on your face for a long time.

e. on the face of the ______: this is used to emphasis that something is the best or is unique.

f. ______the face of something: you do something despite the fact that there are many

difficulties or there is little support for your action.

g. to face the ______: to take responsibility for a mistake that you have made, or

something bad that you have done, and to accept the consequences of that action, for

example, punishment.

h. ______ face doing something: to not want to do something because it is too difficult

or unpleasant.

Use the correct phrase from Exercise 1 in the sentences below.

a. _______________ strong public opposition, the government still decided to go to war.

b. In his time, David Beckham was the best football player _______________.

c. I still haven’t told Dad that I have crashed his car. I guess I’d better go home

and _______________.

d. I got a real shock when she opened the door and she was wearing _______________.

She had forgotten that we had a date that night!

e. I would never accept what governments say _______________; they always have

hidden reasons for their policies and actions.

f. It was so funny when we put salt in the teacher’s cup of tea. It was hard to keep

_______________ as he drank it.

g. I try to do as much business as possible over the phone as I get nervous when I meet

people _______________.

h. I _______________ spending another day sitting in traffic jams; I’m going to cycle

to work!

Unit 12. E-mails

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Study the new words:

to be a bore

to ban

Internal emails

spam

definitive

employees

embedding

to get rid of

instant messaging

to eliminate

to keep records

to be cognisant

to adopt

Match the meanings with their definitions:

1. to adopt a. to keep evidence of things that happen

2. spam b. to stop or clear away

3. embedding c. to use, to take on

4. to get rid of` d. junk emails

5. to keep records e. to implant, to fix firmly

6. to ban f. emails sent or received by employees in the office

7. definitive g. to stop or forbid something

8. Internal emails h. something that is fixed

What is the main topic of the discussion?

1. The main topic of discussion is the company which aims to stop or to ban all the internal emails in the work place.

2. The main topic of discussion is internal emails, which take too much of employees` time.

3. The main topic is alternative ways of communication among employees in the work place.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentences:

1. The first thing you have to do after the holiday is to spend the morning going through all the … that have built up!

2. Spam is the word for annoying … emails.

3. For employees the natural and lazy way to communicate is to … .

4. e-Mail has become the … thing people use.

5. The company decides what the most effective way of communication is and … it within the organization.

6. Internal emails can be a good way of … .

7. Employees will communicate better with each other and a lot of time will be saved by …

Role-play a dialogue between Neil and Michelle, using the vocabulary.

Unit 13. SPAM

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SPEAKING