2. Which of the 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 programs only.

4. Internet is tens of thousands of network 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 program (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.

3. Define the following using the vocabulary.

1. Internet 2. World Wide Web 3. Web browser

4. Internet provider 5. Hyperlinks 6. E-mail

4. Translate into English:

1. Об’єм ресурсів та послуг, що є частиною WWW, зростає надзвичайно швидко.

2. Кожне посилання, що обирається вами представляє: документ, графічне зображення, відео кліп, чи аудіо файл десь в Інтернеті.

3. Інтернет може також використовуватися з метою розваги.

4. Ви отримуєте доступ до ресурсів Інтернету через інтерфейс чи інструмент, що називається веб-браузер.

5. Уся ця діяльність можлива завдяки десяткам тисяч комп’ютерних мереж, підключених до Інтернету, що обмінюються інформацією в одному режимі.

6. Користувачі спілкуються через електронну пошту, дискусійні групи, чат-канали (багатоканальна розмова у реальному часі) та інші засоби обміну інформації.

5. Match the following:

web browser, providers, link, www

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 … resource.

Students’ individual work

1) The development of computers

The first computers used thousands of separate electrical components connected together with wires. In the late 1940s, computers were made using vacuum tubes, resistors, and diodes. These computers were called first generation сomputers.

In 1956, transistors were invented. Transistors are made from materials called semiconductors. Computers using transistors were called second generation computers. Second generation computers were smaller than first generation computers. Second generation computers also used less electrical power. Both first and second generation computers were very expensive.

Computer components, (such as transistors, diodes, resistors) can now be made from semiconductor materials of different shapes. Nowadays, complete circuits can be made from a single piece of semiconductor, called a chip. Such circuits are called integrated circuits (IC’s). Computers using integrated circuits were first produced in the 1960s. They were known as third generation computers. Their integrated circuits had about 200 components on a single chip. Today, we can produce more than 100,000 components on a single chip. A chip can be as small as 0.5 cm square.

With the invention of chips, computer manufacture has become much simpler. The manufacturer does not have to connect thousands of components together. Most of the connections are made inside the chip. It is even possible to build a complete processor in a single chip. A processor on a single chip is called a microprocessor.