7. Complete the sentences with words from the text «The Internet».

1. Some people spend too much time playing ______________ games on the Internet.

2. You can sometimes have a computer ______________ that is not connected to the Internet.

3. It is easy to ______________ around a screen with a mouse.

4. Berners-Lee discovered how to ______________ links between computers in new ways.

5. Some people surf the net at ______________ just to see what they can find.

6. People use the Internet to _____________ information from one place to another.

7. When you surf the Internet, you are traveling in _______________ .

8. Render the following text. A Typical Web Page

At the top of the page is the URL address. URL means Uniform Resource Locator – the address of a file on the Internet. A typical URL looks like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/.

In this URL, http:// means Hypertext Transfer Protocol and tells the program to look for a web page. www means world wide web. bbc.co.uk is the domain name of the server that hosts the website – a company based in the UK; other top-level domains are .com (commercial site), .edu (education), .org (organization) or .net (network); radio is the directory path where the web page is located. The parts of the URL are separated by . (dot), / (slash) and : (colon). Some sites begin ftp://, a file transfer protocol used to copy files from one computer to another.

The toolbar shows all the navigation icons, which let you go back one page or go forward one page. You can also go to the home page or stop the current transfer when the circuits are busy.

Tab buttons let you view different sites at the same time, and the built-in search box helps you look for information. If the feed button lights up, it means the site offers RSS feeds, so you can automatically receive updates. When a web page won’t load, you can refresh the current page, meaning the page reloads (downloads again). If you want to mark a website address so that you can easily revisit the page at a later time, you can add it to your favourites (favorites in American English), or bookmark it. When you want to visit it again you simply click show favourites.

On the web page itself, most sites feature clickable image links and clickable hypertext links. Together, these are known as hyperlinks and take you to other web pages when clicked.

9. Explain given words and word expressions:

URL, file transfer protocol, toolbar, search box, to update, to reload, bookmark, hyperlink, to refresh.

10. Read the text «Research on the Internet» and choose the correct variant.

1. Google is a keyword/search engine.

2. This WORD is in upper/lower case.

3. AND/WHEN is a logical operator.

Research on the Internet

Finding information on the World Wide Web needs an Internet search engine such as Google, Alta Vista, Yandex, Rambler or Excite. Search engines have a text box where you type in a keyword or words. A search engine is a software program that reads the keywords in the text box and searches the Internet for Web pages, websites and other Internet files that use them. These documents are shown on the computer screen in a result listing.

When carrying our searches, you should usually be specific and brief in your choice of words. If the keyword is too general or includes too many general meanings, the results listing may not be useful. Different search engines categorize information in different ways, which changes the way they store and retrieve it.

Using upper case letters in a keyword search will only retrieve documents that use upper case. Typing in lower case is usually better because search engines will retrieve documents that use both upper case and lower case letters.

You can narrow a search using logical operators, such as AND, OR and NOT. AND retrieves all the words typed in the text box, OR retrieves either of the words and NOT excludes words. Spelling is important when typing in keywords, but a search engine will not usually read punctuation, prepositions and articles.