Reading

1. Read the text.

2. Guess the meaning of the underlined words.

3. Define true and false sentences:

(a) Google is set on Thursday to significantly change the way some people use its car engine.

(b) The company is introducing a new feature called Search Wiki.

(c) Users must be logged out to Google to use Search Wiki

(d) Search Wiki may essentially allow users to rank and review the top sites for common searches.

(e) Marissa Mayer is Google’s president of search product and user experience.

(f) Marissa Mayer says that in internal tests, people’s notes in Search Wiki have tended to be more about the relevancy of the Web site to that particular search term.

Speaking

1. Answer the following questions:

(a) Do you consider yourself as a professional user of Internet?

(b) How often do you search information through Google?

(c) Did Google change your life?

(d) Can you tell about disadvantages and advantages of Google?

(e) Do you think that such web-sites are useful for information searching?

(f) If you cannot find necessary information where do you begin to seek after?

2. Ask your partner questions about:

(a) search engine.; (b) Google users; (c) spammers; (d) Search Wiki; (e) Marissa Mayer ; (f) annotations; (g) Yelp.com; (h) CitySearch.

3. Retell the text.

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

A technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and an invalid". The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.

Grammar Verb

Auxiliary Verbs are used together with a main verb to give grammatical information and therefore add extra meaning to a sentence, which is not given by the main verb.

• They are used to form the passive voice.

• They are used to form the continuous tense.

• They are used to form the perfect tense.

Be, Do and Have are auxiliary verbs; they are irregular verbs and can be used as main verbs. The verbs 'to be' and 'to have' are the most commonly used auxiliary verbs and work alongside the main verbs in any statement.

Modal verbs are also auxiliary verbs, but will be treated separately, these are can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, and would, they differ from the others in that they can never function as a main verb.

To be is the most common verb in the English language. It can be used as an auxiliary and a main verb. It is used a lot in its other forms.

Base form = be

Present form = am/is/are

Past form = was/were

Present Participle / Gerund = being

Past Participle = been

To do The verb do is one of the most common verbs in English. It can be used as an auxiliary and a main verb. It is often used in questions.

Base form = do

Present form = do/does

Past form = did

Present Participle / Gerund = doing

Past Participle = done

Note!

The auxiliary verb 'do' is always followed by the base form (infinitive).

To have is one of the most common verbs in the English language.

Base form = have

Present form = have / has

Past form = had

Present Participle / Gerund = having

Past Participle = had

Irregular Verbs have no rules for conjugation. These can only be learnt in context - sorry!

Regular Verbs are conjugated to easy to learn rules.

They all have a base form. e.g. to look