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4.3. Choose the suitable connecting word from the given in brackets:

1. The house stands just in front of the river (as, so that) you cross the bridge and reach in 5 minutes.

2. (If, unless) she had got tickets yesterday, she would have already left.

3. I don’t know exactly (that, what) has happened.

4. The work was done perfectly (because, while) he was a first-rate specialist.

5. The task is quite simple (so that, since) you should do it in the shortest time.

6. We will work a lot (which, in order to) our team achieves good results.

7. I could hardly hear (what, that) he said.

8 The scientist was ready with the experiment before the fixed time (as, that) his young colleague had helped him a lot .

9. I see him seldom (so that, although) he works at the same company.

10. This is a primary reason (what, why) more and more people are opting for the gadgets of this trademark nowadays

V. Speaking

5.1. Translate the following quotes of Marshall McLuhan about it. Comment them. What quotes do you agree with and why?

1.We become what we behold. First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

2.Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

3.In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

4. As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

5. The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

6. Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

7. The most human thing about us is our technology.

8. The new electronic independence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

9. Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

10. Electronic man has no physical body.

11. Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

12. We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

5.2. Discuss these questions with your partner:

1. How one can avoid the Internet-addiction?

2. Do you personally use Internet reasonably?

3. What is your personal attitude to the different forms of plagiarism?

4. Do you think people who plagiarize should be punished?

5. Have you ever used online services to check your term papers or other works for the purpose of plagiarism?

TEXT 2. SILICON VALLEY

Рис

I. Warm-up activities

1.1. Pronounce the following words properly and state the part of speech:

To specialize, to revolutionize, formerly, proximity, physicist, largely, nonunion, aggressively, employee, survey, to reenergize, susceptible, valuation, congestion, immediate.

1.2. Find the Russian equivalents

1. Silicon Valley

1. полупроводник

2. semiconductor

2. Кремниевая долина

3. from the proximity to smth.

3. в интересах, в пользу чего-л.

4. business acumen

4. пример, образец мобильности в работе

5. to defect to smb.

5. игнорировать, избегать

6. a pattern of job mobility

6. деловые качества

7. to shun

7. перейти, перебежать на сторону кого-л.

8. corporate loyalty

8.корпоративная лояльность

9.in favor of smth.

9. из-за соседства,близости с чем-л.

10. personal fulfillment

10. материальная выгода

11. financial reward

11. умеренный климат

12. moderate climate

12. самореализация

13. nonunion workforce

13. не состоящие в профсоюзе сотрудники, работники

14. alike

14. появляться, возникать

15. to emerge

15. подобно, точно так же, одинаково

16. to urge bilateral agreements

16. превышать

17. ascent

17. вынуждать к заключению двусторонних соглашений

18. traffic congestion

18. недавно созданная, новая компания

19. startup company

19. скопление транспорта; транспортная пробка

20. to exceed

20. появление