2 A) Comment on the article and discuss how free should the press be.
b) Was the PCC convincing in controlling these excesses of the press?
Writing
Write a report about the press intrusion into private life of well-known people in your country or in Russia.
UNIT 7
Internet in uk.
Before reading
1 Discuss the following questions in pairs
1 Do you have a good understanding of the Internet? Explain why/ why not.
2 How often do you go online? What for?
3 Which website do you visit most often?
4 Have you ever bought things online? Explain why/ why not.
2 In pairs, decide if the following are examples connected with the Internet
digital divide |
broadband |
social networking |
code |
wireless |
search engine |
top-level domain |
cable |
fledgling companies |
DSL |
upload content |
access |
biggest advertising sector |
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While reading
1 Read the text ‘The Internet in uk” and decide if the following statements true or false.
1 In global internet league table the UK sits number seven.
2 The level of the Internet access in the UK is basically the same elsewhere.
3 The web is more trusted souse of information than TV.
4 Television is the biggest advertising sector in the UK.
5 Britain has the biggest online advertising market in the world.
6 Social networking is particularly popular among youngsters.
7 Those who create content online are mostly students.
8 The Internet in the UK is extremely profitable to the UK economy.
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.
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he
United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet since the
latter's creation. The Internet country code top-level domain for
the United Kingdom is .uk. Currently Internet access is available to
businesses and home users in various forms, including dial-up,
cable, DSL, and wireless.
In the global internet league table, the UK sits at number six. Ahead of the US, Germany and France. In 2010, 51,442,100 Internet users in the country accessed the Internet every day or almost every day, it is 82.5% of the population, according to The Oxford Internet Survey research1.
The number of adults who had never accessed the Internet in 2010 decreased to 9.2 million, from 10.2 million in 2009. There were 38.3 million adults who were Internet users (having accessed the Internet in the three months prior to interview).
Internet use is linked to various socio-economic and demographic indicators, such as age, location, marital status and education. For example, the majority of those aged 65 and over (60 per cent) had never accessed the Internet, compared with just 1 per cent of those aged 16 to 24. While 97 per cent of adults educated to degree level had accessed the Internet, 45 per cent without any formal qualifications had done so.
Another research of Boston Consulting Group found that there is a digital divide in the UK, with some parts of the country – including Scotland and Northern Ireland – lagging far behind London and the south-east. There were 19.2 million households with an Internet connection in 2010, representing 73 per cent of households. The region with the highest level of access was London, with 83 per cent; the lowest was the North East, with 59 per cent.
When adults were asked why their household did not have an Internet connection, the most common response was that they didn’t need it, at 39 per cent, followed by 21 per cent who said a lack of skills prevented them from having the Internet.