- •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
Unit 2 Computer Architecture
supercomputer, n – суперкомп’ютер
mainframe, n – центральний комп’ютер, мейнфрейм
multi-user - багатокористувацький
multi-task – який виконує багато завдань
minicomputer, n – міні-комп’ютер
personal computer (PC) – персональний комп’ютер (ПК)
desktop computer – настільний комп’ютер
workstation, n – робоча станція
portable, adj – портативний, переносний
laptop, n – портативний комп’ютер
notebook, n – ноутбук, блокнотний комп’ютер
handheld, adj– ручний, переносний, портативний
pen-based – з пером
PDA (Personal digital assistant) – КПК (кишеньковий персональний комп’ютер)
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) – джерело безперебійного живлення
processor, n – процесор
memory, n – пам’ять
RAM (Random-access memory) – оперативна пам’ять (ЗПДД)
ROM (Read-only memory) – постійна пам’ять (ПЗП)
CPU (Central Processing Unit) – центральний процесор (ЦП)
peripheral, n - периферійний пристрій, зовнішній пристрій
input device – вхідний пристрій
output device – вихідний пристрій
storage device – накопичувальний пристрій
storage, n - сховище
floppy disk – дискета, гнучкий магнітний диск
hard disk – жорсткий диск
CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read-only Memory – комп’ютерний компакт диск
CD-R (Recodable Compact Disk) – записуючий компакт диск
CD-RW (Rewritable Compact Disk)– ком пактдиск з багаторазовим записом
DVD (Digital Versatile Disk)– цифровий відеодиск
MO (Compact Dick Magneto-Optical)– магнітно-оптичний компакт диск
modem, n - модем
bus, n - шина
system bus – системна шина
address buss – шина адреса
data bus – інформаційна шина
electronic clock – електронний годинник
cache, n – кеш, надшвидкісна пам'ять
plotter, n - плотер
video card – відео карта
graphic card – графічна карта
soundcard, n – звукова карта
network, n - мережа
memory expansion slot – слот розширення для памяті
replicator, n – док-станція, порт-реплікатор
disk, n - диск
tape, n - касета
read/write head – зчитуюча/пишуча головка
track, n – звукова доріжка
crash, n - збій
barcode reader – сканер штрих-кода
scanner, n - сканер
barcode, n – штрих-код
power, n – живлення
speed, n - швидкість
capacity, n – потужність, продуктивність, ємність, здатність
Floppy drive and cd drive are input or output devices?
Floppy and CD drives are both output and input devices based on the context of their usage.
For instance, you know that both the drives can read and write their respective media, i.e. input and output. But consider the case where you insert a pre-recorded CD or write-protected floppy into the drive, here the drive falls-back to being an input device.
Classifying computer peripherals into I/O devices only is not very efficient now-a-days due to the Hybrid nature of these peripherals.
So instead, classifying CD and Floppy drives as Storage Access Devices is more appropriate. The term access here has significance, since the drives itself do not store any data as opposed to common parlance, instead they simply access the Compact Disk and the Floppy Disk for the data.
