My pc is Giving Me Problems

(To the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, traditional)

My PC is giving me problems.

My PC is giving me hell.

It says it’s got inside it.

But its Intel inside is not well.

Chorus

Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my typewriter, please, oh please.

Bring back, bring back, oh bring back my typewriter, please.

It ______ on me three times this morning. virus

And wouldn’d connect to the ______. Net

It _emptied_____ my trash without warning. crashed

It’s some kind of ______, I bet. emptied

I ____ head office a memo. attachment

And sent ______in Word, error

But HQ’s computers are Apple occurred

And that’s when an _____ ______. E-mailed

I _______ on an icon to ______ program

A ______ that iMacs can read files

But lost half the ______ on my hard disk download

So somehow I must have miskeyed. clicked

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Now my spreadsheet has lost all its ______. upgrade

And sadly no ______ were made. helpline

I phoned up the ______ at Compaq. data

They told me I need to ______. backups

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They finally sent a ______, type

Who debugged my ______ with ease, printer

But something’s gone wrong with my _____, technical

Cause when I ______ ‘d’s it prints ‘c’s. desktop

I guess I’m ______ illiterate – keyboard

I don’t know my ______from my RAM. spam

My ______ skills are a disaster. computer

And my e-mails has filled up with ______. ROM

1. Match the captions

A. Computers have many applications in a great variety of fields. Match these captions with the text:

Using an automatic cash dispense

In education, computers can make all difference

Organizing the Tour de France demands the use of computer technology

Controlling air traffic

1. Computers can help students perform mathematical operations and solve difficult questions. They can be used to teach courses such as computer-aided design, language learning, programming, mathematics, etc.    PCs (personal computers) are also used for administrative purposes: for example, schools use databases and word processors to keep records of students, teachers and materials.

2. Race organizers and journalists rely on computers to provide them with the current positions of riders and teams in both the particular stages of the race and in the overall competition.

3. Workstations in the race buses provide the timing system and give up-to-the-minute timing information to TV stations. In the press room several PCs give real-time information on the state of the race. Computer databases are also used in the drug-detecting tests for competitors.

4. Computers score information about the amount of money held by each client and enable staff to access large databases and to carry out financial transactions at high speed. They also control the automatic cash dispensers which, by the use of a personal coded card, dispense money to clients.

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 B.   When you read texts like these, you don't always need to understand every word. But there are words which you can guess from the context. Look at these words. Are they nouns (n), verbs (v) or adjectives (adj) ? 

1) workstation__	2) data__	3) perform__	4) automatic__	5) monitor__
6) financial__	7) store__	8) connected__	9) word processor__	10) large__

  Now find the words in texts 1 to 4, and match them with the meanings below. 

   

	Information
	execute (do)
	connected with money
	keep (save)
	Massive
	Linked
	self-acting, mechanical
	Screen
	powerful computer usually connected to a network
	program used for text manipulation

 

3. Look at text 1 again and discuss these questions.

1. How are/were computers used in ZGIA?

2. What other areas of study would benefit from the introduction of computers?

3. Listening (or reading)

Listen (or read) to these people talking about how they use computers at work and write each speaker's job in the table.

1 I write music mainly for videos and plays. I work on a keyboard connected to a computer. I use the computer in two ways really: first of all to record what I play on the keyboard, in other words to store what I play on the keyboard. Secondly, the computer controls the sounds I can make with the different synthesizers I have here. I can use it to get different kinds of sounds from the synthesizers. The computer is the link between the keyboard which I play and the synthesizers which produce the sounds.

2 I use my computer to do the usual office things like write memos, letters, faxes and so on, but the thing which I find really useful is electronic mail. We are an international company and we have offices all over the world. We’re linked up to all of them by e-mail, with e-mail I can communicate with the offices around the world very efficiently. It’s really changed my life.

3 Well. I use computers for almost every aspect of my job. I use them to design electrical installations and lighting systems: for example the program will tell you how much lighting you need for a particular room, or how much cable you need, and it will show where the cable should go. I also use the computer to make drawings and to keep records. We have to test our installations every five years and the information is stored on computer.

4 I use computers to find information for people. Readers come in with a lot of queries and I use either our own database or the national database that we’re connected to find what they want. They might want to know the name and address of a particular society, or last year’s accounts of a company and we can find that out for them. Or they might want to find a particular newspaper article but they don’t know the exact date it was published so we can find it for them by checking on our online database for anything they can remember: a name or the general topic. And we use computers to catalogue the books in the library and to record the books that readers borrow.

Job:        a) electrical engineer         b) secretary         c) librarian         d) composer

	To record what he plays on keyboard.
	To write memos, letters, faxes.
	To make drawing.
	To find information for people.
	To get different sounds from the synthesizers.
	To design electrical installations and lighting systems.
	To record the books that readers borrow.
	To communicate with other offices by e-mail.
	To catalogue the books in the library.
	To keep records (of test).

 

3. Reading

  Now read the text below and indicate applications, in order.

What can computers do?

Computers and microchips have become part of our everyday lives: we visit shops and offices which have been designed with the help of computers, we read magazines which have been produced on computer, we pay bills prepared by computers. Just picking up a telephone and dialling a number involves the use of a sophisticated computer system, as does making a flight reservation or bank transaction.

We encounter daily many computers that spring to life the instant they're switched on (e.g. calculators, the car's electronic ignition, the timer in the microwave, or the programmer inside the TV set), all of which use chip technology.

What makes your computer such a miraculous device? Each time you turn it on, it is a tabula rasa that, with appropriate hardware and software, is capable of doing anything you ask. It is a calculating machine that speeds up financial calculations. It is an electronic filing cabinet which manages large collections of data such as customers' lists, accounts, or inventories. It is a magical typewriter that allows you to type and print any kind of document - letters, memos or legal documents. It is a personal communicator that enables you to interact with other computers and with people around the world. If you like gadgets and electronic entertainment, you can even use your PC to relax with computer games.

4. Language work: The present simple passive.

Look at the HELP box and then read the sentences. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Example Houses (design)....................................with the help of computers. Houses are designed with the help of computers

1. Various terminals (connect)____ to this workstation.

2. Microcomputers (know)_____ as 'PCs'.

3. Magazines (typeset)____ by computers.

4. When a particular program is run, the data (process)____ by the computer very rapidly.

5. Hard disks (use)____ for the permanent storage of information.

6. The drug-detecting test in the Tour de France (support)____ by computers.

7. All the activities of the computer system (coordinate) ____by the central processing unit.

8. In some modern systems information (hold)_____ in optical disks.

Help box The present simple passive You form the present simple passive with am/is/are + past participle, e.g.: - This program is written in a special computer language. - Programs and data are usually stored on disks. Remember that the word data takes a singular verb (3rd person singular) when it refers to the information operated or in a computer program. - The data is ready for processing.