- •Unit 1 Computer users
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •Could computer games be good for you after all?
- •A career in computers
- •Are you a blogger too?
- •Unit 2 Computer Architecture
- •Floppy drive and cd drive are input or output devices?
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •Addiction to Internet ‘is an illness’
- •1. Find the answers to the questions in the article.
- •2. Find words in the text that mean the following.
- •3. Answer these questions for yourself or for someone you know and discuss the results. Do you think these test questions are a good indicator of Internet addiction?
- •If you answer ‘yes’ to five or more of these questions, you may have an Internet addiction!
- •Unit 3 Computer Applications
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •Information Society by Richard Sidaway
- •Unit 4 Peripherals
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •3) Forms used when comparing ideas
- •4. Conjunctions and connectors
- •Interview. Former student
- •Tiny devices may help reinvent wireless technology
- •Vocabulary and grammar work
- •1. Translate the sentences paying special attention to the words in italics.
- •2. Match the words and their meaning.
- •3. Insert prepositions necessary.
- •4. Supply the proper form of a verb in the sentences.
- •5. Fill in each blank with the words from the text.
- •6. Match the parts together.
- •1. State whether the sentences given below are true or false according to the text.
- •2. Test your understanding of the text.
- •Discussion
- •Discuss the questions above.
- •2. Imagine you are an inventor. Describe an invention you are working on. Think about:
- •Unit 6 Operating systems
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •No more downtime due to kernel patching
- •Computer diagnosis
- •Wearable computers
- •1) The gerund as a subject
- •2) Gerund after prepositions
- •Unit 7 Graphical user interface
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •Computers in our life
- •Five steps to a good password
- •Unit 8 Applications programs
- •Vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises
- •Cyber café
- •1) Asking for instructions
- •2) Giving instructions
- •Imperative form in English
- •1. Complete each gap in this text with a suitable word from this list .
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form in this description of gps. .
- •3. Rewrite each of these statements by replacing the words in italics with en-/-en or phrasal verbs of a similar meaning.
- •4. Translate into Ukrainian.
- •6. Complete the text with discourse markers from the box.
- •7. Read the text below. For each of the empty space choose the correct variant.
- •8. For questions 1-12, read the following text and decide which answer (a, b, c or d) best fits each gap.
- •Something not for everyone
Computer diagnosis
A Finish research team has come up with a new invention that can find out in a few seconds if someone is 1) ….. from lung diseases such as bronchitis or asthma. It is a computer called Corsa and is attached to a stethoscope and a small tube for breathing into. Corsa has been 2) ….. over eight years and has cost over a million pounds, but its everyday use is inexpensive. Plans are under way to scale down the computer so that it is small enough to fit into the pocket of a doctor’s coat.
As yet there is only one such computer in 3) ….. , but with recent funding, more computers will be produced by a German company.
There has been a great 4) ….. of interest in this machine and there is definitely a need for it, especially among children’s doctors. The stethoscope can be used to test for asthma, which afflicts 3 to 5 percent of European children. With traditional machines the patient has to blow into a tube, which can be difficult, especially for young children. Using this machine, the computer can 5) ….. you exactly what is wrong by simply hearing you breathe.
1. A) hurting B) suffering C) aching D) experiencing E) enduring
2. A) started B) structured C) planned D) thought of E) developed
3. A) life B) action C) existence D) reality E) routine
4. A) pack B) amount C) lot D) deal E) heap
5. A) learn B) say C) mention D) guess E) tell
Exercise 3. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.
Wearable computers
Once, only a few decades ago, computers took 1) ….. a whole room and were frequently operated by a team of experts. However, 2) ….. the technology developed, computers became smaller, lighter and more user-friendly. Nowadays, portable laptop computers, and even smaller versions like notepads and palms, are commonplace. But how 3) ….. you feel about the possibility of wearing a personal computer or PC?
According to the giant computer company IBM, in the 4) ….. too distant future, we will be wearing our PCs 5) ….. we go. Researchers at IBM have developed a tiny computer that is 6) ….. light it can be worn on your head.
In fact, this new miniature computer looks rather like half of a pair of glasses. 7) ….. the screen of a wearable computer is only one-inch square, it is used in the same 8) ….. as a full-sized PC with full-sized text. However, 9) ….. an ordinary desktop computer or a laptop, this new model does not need a keyboard – 10) ….. of typing, you speak into it. It uses similar technology to 11) ….. of a cell phone and is battery-operated.
This amazing, tiny computer 12) ….. work as well as any normal mobile phone, as 13) ….. as people remember to charge its batteries.
A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR: THE GERUND
The gerund has exactly the same form as the present participle: running, speaking, working etc.
1) The gerund as a subject
Gerund can be the subject of a sentence when the action is being considered in a general sense. We can say:
Reading French is easier than speaking it.
The gerund can be the subject of a clause place after believe, consider, discover, expect, find, think, wonder etc.
After find we can omit that and the verb be, i.e. we can say:
He found that parking was difficult or
He found parking difficult.
But it is safer not to omit be after the other verbs.