2. Find English equivalents in the text:

Обов’язкова складова, пластини, магнітний носій запису, важливий, пилинка, непоправна шкода, обертатися, оберт, постійний гул, вентилятор, відшукувати інформацію, головки зчитування, проноситися над поверхнею, не торкаючись її, потік повітря, крутитись навколо осі назад і вперед, час доступу, швидкість передачі, вразливий, ударитися, осідати, підстрибувати, тендітний, різко, споживання енергії, зносостійкість.

3. Rewrite the false statements:

1. The platters inside a hard disk drive are usually made of plastic.

2. Nothing can cause damage to the proper functioning of the hard drive.

3. The platters don’t spin if you don’t retrieve or write any information.

4. The head usually bumps the platters.

5. The magnetic recording medium is not fragile.

6. HDD is a peripheral part of modern computers.

7. Moving your laptop carefully can cause head crash.

8. The arm with the heads on it begins to move only when you run a program.

9. “Head crash” occurs when platters crash into each other.

10. The platters are square-shaped.

4. Put questions to the sentences, making the type of a question specified in the brackets (consult Appendix 2):

1. The hard drive is where all of your programs and files are stored. (Where)

2. If the drive is damaged for some reason, you will lose everything on your computer. (When)

3. Hard drives contain round, mirror-like platters. (What)

4. A head inside your hard disk drive reads and writes data to the platters. (What)

5. The platters in a desktop computer hard disk drive typically get up to about 7,200 rotations per minute. (How many)

6. The arm with the heads on it can move back and forth across the surface of the platter. (How)

7. Because everything in the hard disk drive moves so quickly, the head never actually touches the platters. (Why)

8. People who use laptops should not move their laptop abruptly. (make a disjunctive question)

9. The magnetic recording medium is extremely fragile. (make an alternative question)

10. A hard drive uses similar memory storage technology to cassette tapes and video tapes. (make a general question)

5. Match the words to get word combinations and make your sentences with them:

1. to be covered with	a) 5,400 rpm
2. to be made of	b) a cushion of moving air
3. to run at	c) milliseconds
4. to write something to	d) “head crash”
5. to move back and forth across	e) magnetic recording medium
6. to skim just barely above	f) working
7. to be supported by	g) the memory
8. access time is measured in	h) the platters
9. to make the hard disk susceptible to	i) glass or aluminum
10. to quit	j) the surface