Vocabulary:

ect (etcetera) – и т. д.

means n – средство

nowadays adv – сейчас, в настоящее время

occur v –происходить, возникать

research n – исследование

simultaneously adv – одновременно

transmit v –передавать

within prp – в пределах, в, через

Задание 2. Просмотрите текст и ответьте на вопросы.

1. When did the first TV set appear?

2. Were people interested in the new invention?

3. Why was the TV production stopped in 1940?

4. What is cable television?

5. What is digital television?

6. What is high-definition television?

Задание 3. Укажите , какие из следующих утверждений соответствуют содержанию текста.

1.A lot of people owned television sets in the first years after its invention.

2. First television black-and-white pictures were excellent.

3. Only few people owned television sets in the next few years after their appearance.

4. Black-and-white television was rapidly replacing colour television.

5. First television black-and-white pictures were not very good.

6. Only a few years ago colour television was rapidly replacing black-and-white television.

7. When the war was over, TV sets stopped coming off factory assembly lines.

8. After World War II TV sets began coming off factory assembly lines.

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Задание 1. Read the text: Colour Television

Colour television is the transmission and reception of images in full colour. The colour television system can produce programs both in colour on colour receivers and in black and white on monochrome receivers. Also, colour receivers receive monochrome pictures when they are being transmitted. Colour transmission contains two basic com­ponents — brightness information and colour information. Red, green, and blue are the colours that are chosen for colour television.

Colour cameras. In a colour camera an optical system separates the red, green, and blue image components of a picture and concentrates these three components in sep­arate but identical colour camera tubes. Thus the output of one tube reacts to the red light image; another—to the green, and another — to the blue light image.

Colour kinescope. In a monochrome kinescope a single electron gun produces an electron beam. The brightness is controlled by an electron grid, which changes the elec­tron beam density.

In a colour kinescope three electron guns produce three electron beams which are synchronized. The intensities of beam are controlled by the voltage corresponding to the green, red, and blue components respectively of the col­our picture.

Задание 2. Practise the following words from the text:

to contain – содержать в себе

gun – трубка

to choose – выбирать

beam – луч

density – плотность

respectively– соответственно

to react – реагировать

Задание 3. Translate the following words without a dictionary:

monochrome, information, diameter, identical, inten­sity, reaction, vertical, horizontal, amplitude, kinescope

Задание 4. Read and translate the following word combinations:

colour information;

beam density; red image compo­nents; green image picture components;

identical camera tubes;

beam intensity control;

electron beam density;

identical colour camera tubes

Задание 5. Answer the questions:

1.What basic components does colour transmission contain? 2. What images docs' monochrome receivers receive? 3. What images does a colour receiver receive?

4. How many components docs an optical systems concentrate? 5. What are they? 6. What component changes the electron, beam density?

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Задание 1. Read the text: Internet

Millions of people around the world use the Internet to search for and retrieve information on all sorts of topics in a wide variety of areas including the arts, business, government, humanities, news, politics and recreation. People communicate through electronic mail(e-mail),discussion groups, chat channels and other means of informational exchange. They share information and make commercial and business transactions. All this activity is possible because tens of thousands of networks are connected to the Internet and exchange information in the same basic ways.

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a part of the Internet. But it's not a collection of networks. Rather, it is information that is connected or linked together like a web. You access this information through one interface or tool called a Web browser. The number of resources and services that are part of the World Wide Web is growing extremely fast. In 1996 there were more than 20 million users of the WWW, and more than half the information that is transferred across through the WWW. By using a computer terminal(hardware) connected to a network that is part of the Internet, and by using programme(software) to browse or retrieve information that is a part of the World Wide Web, the people connected to the Internet and World Wide Web through the local providers have access to a variety of information. Each browser provides a graphical interface. You move from place to place, from site to site on the Web by using a mouse to click on a portion of text, icon or region of a map. These items are called hyperlinks or links. Each link you select represent a document, an image, a video clip or an audio file somewhere on the Internet. The user doesn't need to know where it is, the browser follows the link.

All sorts of things are available on the WWW. One can use Internet for recreational purposes. Many TV and radio stations broadcast live on the WWW. Essentially, if something can be put into digital format and stored in a computer, then it's available on the WWW. You can even visit museums, gardens and cities throughout the world, learn foreign languages and meet new friends. And, of course, you can play computer games through WWW, competing with partners from other countries and continents.

Just a little bit of exploring the World Wide Web will show you what a lot of use and fun it is.

Задание 2.Which of listed below statements are true/false. Specify your answer using the text.

1) There are still not so many users of the Internet.

2) There is information on all sorts of topics on the Internet, including education and

weather forecasts.

3) People can communicate through e-mail and chat programmes only.

4) The Internet is tens of thousands of networks which exchange the information in

the same basic way.

5) You can access information available on the World Wide Web through the Web

browser.

6) You need a computer(hardware) and a special programme(software) to be a

WWW user.

7) You move from site to site by clicking on a portion of text only.

8) Every time the user wants to move somewhere on the web he/she needs to step by

step enter links and addresses.

9) Films and pictures are not available on the Internet.

10) Radio and TV-broadcasting is a future of Internet. They're not available yet.

Задание 3.Find the equivalents in the text:

1)Объем ресурсов и услуг, которые являются частью WWW, растет

черезвычайно быстро.

2)Каждая ссылка, выбранная вами представляет документ, графическое

изображение, видеоклип или аудио фаил где-то в Интернете.

3)Интернет может быть также использован для целей развлечения.

4)Вы получаете доступ к ресурсам Интернет через интерфейс или инструмент,

который называется веб-браузер.

5)Вся эта деятельность возможна благодаря десяткам тысяч компьютерных

сетей, подключенных к Интернет и обменивающихся информацией в одном

режиме.

6)Пользователи общаются через электронную почту, дискуссионные группы,

чэт-каналы(многоканальный разговор в реальном времени) и другие

средства информационного обмена.

Задание 4. Match the following:

1) You access the information through one interface or tool called a...

2) People connected to the WWW through the local... have access to a variety of

information.

3) The user doesn't need to know where the site is, the... follows the...

4) In 1996 there were more than 20 million users of the…

5) Each...provides a graphical interface.

6) Local...charge money for their services to access...resources.

Words to match with:

1) web browser, 2)providers, 3)link, 4)WWW

Задание 5. Questions for discussion:

1. Some people think that Internet is very harmful, especially for young people, because it carries a lot of information about sex, drugs, violence and terrorism.

2. Do you think that some kind of censorship(цензура) is necessary on the WWW?

3) World famous authors and publishers say that the Internet violates their copyright because Web-programmers put all kinds of books, pictures, music, films and programmes free on the Internet and this reduces their sales and profits.

4) Has anyone in your group experience working on the Internet?

Ask them 1) about the difficulties they had; 2)useful information retrieved;3)fun they got? Why so few people have experience working on the Internet?

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Задание 1. Read the text: Fax

Facsimile machines only came into widespread use in the late 1970s when international standards were set by the Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique (CCITT), a bode based in France. Before this, machines could only communicate with those made by the same manufacturer.

Since then, facsimile technology has become increasingly sophisticated. The latest machines, which must be linked to a special digital phone line, can send a document to several places at once for the price of one phone call.

Facsimile transmission involves sending a document along a telephone line and converting the received signals into a reproduction of the original. “Fax” machines can now send an A4 document, containing images as well as words, in less than a minute.

When you feed a document into a machine, a fluorescent lamp reflects the image on to a series of mirrors which reduce its size so that the whole document can be reflected on to a camera lens. The lens can only read the image in black and white. This information is converted, via a microprocessor, into binary information The machine records black as o and white as 1.

Another microprocessor then converts the binary data into a digital information, which allows more data to be stored on the microchip. But, because most telephone cannot read digital information, this is again changed, via another microprocessor (modem), into analogue tones, or pitches of noise. The first machine transmits these tones to the second.

Задание 2. Translate the text.

Задание 3. Retell the text.

Задание 4. Make up your own fax and send it to your friend.

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Задание 1. Read the dialogue: Telephone Conversation

Read the following radio telephone conversation between Peter Needham (PN), a salesman from Bradfield Electronics Ltd., Nutley, and John Brown (JB), area manager for Bradfield, who is in the factory at Nutley. Peter Needham is in his car heading for Greenwood, where he has to deliver some electronic equipment.

Peter Hello. Peter Needham speaking.

John Hello Peter. It’s John Brown here. Where are you now exactly?

Peter I’m on the A217 heading towards Greenwood. I’ve just gone past Chertsey windmill.

John Right. Well, I’ve got some good news for you. I’ve just had Swanford Tools on the phone …you know, the company over the Thurby. Apparently they’re very interested in the RPH radiophone documentation I left with them about a month ago, and would like someone to visit them as soon as possible.On the phone I got the impression they’re ready to bite.

Peter Good. We’ve had several inquiries about the radiophone recently. Our research is beginning to pay off.. What do you want me to do then… deliver the equipment to greenwood or get straight over to Thurby.

John I think it’d be a good idea to get straight over to Thurby.

Peter Can you give me some information on the best route?

John You said you ‘ve just gone past Chertsey windmill, didn’t you?

Peter Yes, that’s right.

John Well take the next turning on your right, the B 2378 to Slingdon. When you are on Slingdon, you’ll see a pub on your left called ‘The Bear Inn’, and right opposite the pub you’ll see the B 379 to Thurby. So turn right at the pub, and carry on for about 5 kilometres. Swanford Tools is on your left, just after the golf- course. It’s very close to the A19 which you can take to come back to Nutley.

Peter Fine. I’ll be in Thurby in about 20 minutes. What’s the name of the chap I’ve got to see there?

John Derek Salvage. He’s in charge of their equipment modernization scheme. Oh, one word of advice. Don’t mention the French contract to him. Few people know about it yet, and I wouldn’t like to become public knowledge.

Oh, and when you talk about the RPH radiophone, bring out all of the usual arguments: efficient businesses needing good communication, RPH’s profit – making capacities, saving on fuel costs, and meeting the customer’s needs. You know the sort of things I mean.

Peter Of course. I’ll deliver the equipment to Greenwood first thing tomorrow morning. I should be back in Nutley by 4. 30. The A 19 fro Thurby’s fast road and a lot of people will be going the other way towards Slingdon at about 4. See you later at the office then. ‘Bye John.

John ‘Bye.