10. Answer the questions.

1. Why did the Net begin?

2. What year did it start in?

3. When did people start to call it the Internet?

4. When did the Internet start to grow very fast?

5. What do we use it for?

11. Complete the sentences.

1. A global computer network is ________________________________.

2. A computer directly connected to the Internet that provides services to other computers on the network is ______________________________.

3. A company that sells computer access to the Internet is ______________.

4. The most popular Internet service is ___________________________.

5. A way of sending messages between computers is ________________.

6. The most important symbol in an e-mail address is ________________.

7. A program that allows a computer to display documents containing text, graphics, photographs, sounds, videos, and animations is ___________.

8. Internet browsers are ______________________________.

9. A device that converts between analog and digital signals is _________.

10. On-line conversations are ____________________________.

11. The starting point of a website is _________________________.

12. Discuss these points and make up short dialogues.

1. How do you contact your friends?

2. Do you write e-mails?

3. Who do you write them to?

4. What do you write about?

13.Quiz "The Internet". True or false?

1. The e-mail address @bigmouthkingdom.net is correct.

2. You can send an e-mail to many people at the same time.

3. You can forward a mail you received to your other friends.

4. You can't send an e-mail without a stamp.

5. An e-mail is delivered much faster than any traditional mails.

6. An attachment is a file attached to an e-mail.

7. You can send images to your friends in an e-mail.

8. People like to use their true names in a chat room.

9. There are different subjects in a chat room. You can select a subject you like to talk about.

10. People can talk in the chat room even though they don't know each other.

11. You can book tickets or flowers in the chat room.

12. NNTP is a mail transfer protocol.

13. There is only news in the newsgroups.

14. Each user can only subscribe to one newsgroup.

15. You can post your opinion in the newsgroup by sending mail.

16. All newsgroups are charged.

17. With net meeting you can directly talk to each other with a microphone and a speaker.

18. You can draw a picture and show it to your partner on the electronic tablet.

19. "Call" means you make a call to somebody when you are online.

20. With a camera installed you can see your parent when you talk to him using net meeting.

21. You have to pay expensive international telephone fee when you speak to your foreign friend with I-phone.

22. There are no viruses on the Internet.

23. On the Internet if somebody asks you to tell him your name and school, you can tell him.

24. Minors can visit erotic and violent web sites.

25. You can't tell others your personal password to Internet.

26. You can go immediately if your net friend wants to meet you.