- •4. Look at the words in the box and complete the following sentences with them. Use the information in the text or Glossary if necessary.
- •5. Match the words and expressions on the left with their explanations on the right.
- •6. Find English equivalents for these words in the text:
- •II. Listening
- •1. Two friends are talking about how to move text by using the 'Cut and Paste' technique. Read the conversation and complete it with words from the box.
- •V. Writing
- •VI. Speaking
- •VII. Listening: Spreadsheets
- •Unit 10
- •3. Using the information in the text, complete these statements.
- •II. Grammar: Plurals
- •1. Study this information:
- •Write the plural of these words:
- •4. Puzzle
- •III. Listening
- •1. Listen to Helena Davies, an it trainer, explaining how to use mail merging to some employees. Number these steps in the order that you hear them.
- •2. Look at the illustration of mail merging and identify the three types of documents involved in this example of mail merging.
- •IV. Writing
- •1. Study this sample mail:
- •V. Listening
- •1. Try to answer these questions.
- •Listen to a conversation between a customer buying a pc and a sales assistant. Why do you think the sales assistant has to explain so much about the Internet?
- •Listen again and complete the customer’s notes.
- •VI. Reading: Internet software
- •1. Which Internet utility (1 to 7) would you use to do each of these tasks (a to g)?
- •2. Read the text to check your answers.
- •3. Read the text again and choose the right answer.
- •2. Look at these tasks and choose the most suitable Web site from the cyberlist.
- •3. Rearrange the letters to create the words described.
- •IX. Reading/ Speaking: Online
- •Read the interview below with a best-selling author Jessica Adams about her experiences with computers.
- •Complete the interview by matching the questions (a-l) below with the appropriate gaps in the article (1-12) in 1.
- •3. Work with a partner. Ask the questions from the interview.
- •X. Translation. Translate this text into Ukrainian.
- •XI. Writing: Dos and don’ts
- •4. Do you agree with the point of view of the author? Why/Why not?
- •5. Prepare a speech (up to 1 minute) to express your point of view.
3. Read the text again and choose the right answer.
1 An Internet service provider (ISP) is
a a program that connects you to the Internet.
b a company that gives you access to the Internet.
2 HTML is
a the software which allows you to fetch and see Web pages.
b the codes used to create hypertext documents for the Web.
3 An IRC channel is
a an IRC discussion area.
b a computer system dedicated to IRC.
4 Usenet is
a a big system of public discussion groups.
b a newsgroup.
5 An intranet is
a like a small version of the Internet inside a company.
b a commercial online service.
VII. Speaking
1. Ask your partner these questions.
What web site do you visit to chat with friends?
Which chat channels are you interested in?
Do you talk with strangers during web chats?
Do you use your real name or a nickname?
How long do you usually spend at the terminal?
Have you ever surfed the Web? What are your favourite web sites?
VIII. Vocabulary
1. Study the following information:
URL: uniform resource locator, the address of a file on the Internet. A URL looks like this: http://www.netscape.com/
'http://' means hypertext transfer protocol and tells the program to look for a web page
'www' means World Wide Web
'netscape.com' is the domain name and tells people that it is a commercial enterprise
Navigation buttons: buttons on the toolbar which allow you to go back or forward to other web pages. You can also return to your start-up page or stop the transfer when the circuits are busy
Links: shortcuts (underlined text or images) that, when clicked, take you to other web pages
Security on the Web: just a few websites are secure. When the page is not encrypted, the security lock is open
Basic functions of the toolbar:
a go to the home page
b retrace your steps
c go forward one page
d interrupt the current transfer
e update a page
f find words within a page
g load and display the page's images
6 The format of an e-mail address: celia@mail.sendanet.es
User name or nickname |
The @ sign means ‘at’ |
The computer system where the user gets e-mail. ‘Sendanet” is an Internet service provider |
Tells people that the company is based in Spain. Other countries include .fr for France, .nl for Holland, .uk for United Kingdom, etc. |
2. Look at these tasks and choose the most suitable Web site from the cyberlist.
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http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.greenpeace.org/ http://www.ibm.com/ http://www.gofly.com/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ http://www.oscars.org/
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