Speaking

1. Answer the following questions:

(a) What is Internet for?

(b) What do you know about the history of Internet?

(c) Who owns Internet?

(d) No organization controls Internet’s use, does it?

(e) Who and when posted the first message?

(f) How many channels does Internet already deliver?

(g) In future all will be connected to Internet, won’t they?

(h) What techniques can already be connected to Internet?

2. Ask your partner questions about:

(a) communication ways; (b) the help of Internet; (c) the history of Internet; (d) modem connection; (e) connection to the entire world; (f) the future of Internet.

3. Retell the text.

4. How do you understand the story? Discuss it with your partner.

Caller: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"

Tech Repairer: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"

Caller: "The cup holder on my PC is broken and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"

Tech Repairer: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"

Caller: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."

Tech Repairer: "Please excuse me if I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotion, at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"

Caller: "It came with my computer; I don't know anything about a promotion. It just has '4X' on it."

At this point the Tech Repairer had to mute the caller, because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard. The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder, and snapped it off the drive.

Grammar nouns

Definition. Nouns are the words we use for the names of things. They can be the names of people, places, objects, or even feelings. For example:

objects	hat, gate, spoon, lamp, notebook
feelings	joy, love, sadness, fear, anger
natural things	electricity, thunder, gravity, speed
groups	herd, pack, catalogue, crowd

There are three different types of noun:

Common nouns. This is the term for objects such as 'shoe', 'book', 'coat', 'man', and 'woman'.

Proper nouns. This is the term for names of people, places, days of the week, and months of the year. Proper nouns are written with a capital letter:

Abai Kunanbaev	April
Saturday	National Park

Abstract nouns. This is the term for feelings - such as 'anger', ‘love’, 'joy', 'fear', and 'sadness'.

If there is more than one thing being discussed, we use the plural.

Singular - girl

Plural - girls

Most plurals of nouns are formed by adding the letter 's'.

books   shoes   coats   dogs   cats

But there are a lot of words which have what are called irregular plurals:

Singular	Plural
Man	Men
Woman	Women
Child	Children
Ox	Oxen
Ostrich	Ostriches