Lexical and grammar exercises

1. Answer the following questions.

1. What is a website? 2. What features do good websites include? 3. Name the navigation features. 4. What are image maps? 5. What is initial set-up fee? 6. Who provides customer support? 7. What is required to access a user’s own storage area?

2. Give English equivalents to the following words (a) and word-combinations (b).

a) вебсторінка, підтримувати, сумісність, дозволяти, риса, включати, зв’язок, уникати, необхідний, ключове слово, альтернативний, рамка, різний, зникати, доступ, клієнт, власний, повністю, відокремлювати, площа, рахунок;

b) розробка вебсторінок, дуже відрізнятися, точні дані, використання графіки, сучасні дані, текстові заголовки, легко досягати, особливий зміст, незліченна кількість, карта зображення, зберігати сторінку постійною, розміщення навігаційних елементів, функція пошуку, друкувати ключові слова, вимагати плату, доступ до Інтернету, брати до розгляду, початкова плата, надійні послуги, забезпечувати зв’язок, плата за місцеві дзвінки, підтримка споживача, різні члени сім’ї, особисті дані.

3. Find synonyms among the given words.

Maintain, vary, up to date, way, frequently, appear, permit, look for, usually, but, connection, emerge, support, differ, modern, path, often, allow, search, normally, link, however.

4. Level a. Match the terms with the statements.

Level B. Translate the definitions and match them with their explanations.

Level C. Use a dictionary to match the tables.

1. Image maps 2. Initial set-up fee 3. Frames 4. Free web space 5. A website 6. Customer support 7. A good navigation system 8. A webmaster

a) a set of related webpages stored on a Web server is known as b) a person who sets up and maintains a website. c) A way of dividing the browser screen into separate windows, each with its own scrollbar. d) is a way of allowing visitors to move from webpage to webpage and find their way around your website. e) a small charge for first setting up the connection. f) storage space for users on a Web server computer where the users can set up their own websites. g) a help service that enables customers to obtain help for common computing problems. h) graphical images that provide links to different webpages depending on where on the image the user clicks.

5. Study these seven points for evaluating websites. What questions would you ask to evaluate a website on each point?

1. Design. 2. Navigation. 3. Ease of use. 4. Accuracy. 5. Up to date. 6. Helpful graphics. 7. Compatibility.

6. Understanding the writer’s purpose. Knowing who the writer is, what their purpose is and who they are writing for can help us to understand a text.

Study these extracts from a text. Decide:

1. What special expertise does the author have in this field?

2. Who are the intended readers?

3. What is the author’s purpose?

Title: Help Web-farers find their way.

Source: Windows Magazine, E-Business section

Subtitle: Here are nine ways to make it easy for visitors to navigate your website.

First paragraph:

Your website may be chock¹ full of information about your company and its products, but if visitors to the site can’t easily find their way around its pages they may never return. Besides content, the most important aspect of a website is its navigation scheme. Unfortunately, that may also be the most commonly neglected design consideration. These nine site-design pointers will kelp you build an effective navigation system.

Author information:

Matt Micklewicz offers advice and useful links for Webmasters at his Webmaster Resources site

(www.webmaster-resources.com).

Notes

¹choke /t∫ɜυk/ v – душити