- •Unit 1 computer users
- •Using Computers
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 1
- •Text 1a. Computer users
- •Table a Table b
- •The digital age
- •Text 1b. Computers make the world smaller and smarter
- •Grammar review present forms
- •Verbs usually not used in any of the progressive tenses
- •Grammar Exercises
- •The Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
- •Writing
- •Unit 2 computer architecture
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 2
- •Text 2a. Computer architecture
- •Text 2b. Cache memory
- •How a disk cache works
- •Grammar review. Past forms
- •The present perfect and past simple
- •The present perfect continuous and present perfect
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Speaking/writing
- •Unit 3 peripherals
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 3
- •Advantage
- •Text a. Peripherals
- •Post-reading activity
- •Specialist reading
- •Text b. Types of Printers
- •Grammar review future forms
- •It is interesting to know:
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Exercise 10. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Perfect or the Futures Simple.
- •Exercise 11. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Continuous or the Future Perfect.
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 4
- •Appliance
- •Relevance
- •Text 4a. Personal computers
- •Specialist reading
- •Text 4b.Data mining
- •Grammar review. The passive voice
- •Table of passive voice
- •Active and passive voice (compare) Active Voice
- •Passive Voice
- •Grammar Exercises
- •The Prepositions
- •Grammar Exercises prepositions
- •Prepositions of location:
- •In used to show location or destination in an area:
- •Intended goal/target
- •In is used for
- •Other common prepositions with multiple meaning
- •Writing/speaking Think about advantages and disadvantages of using a desktop computer, a laptop and a palm computer. Compare them.
- •Unit 5 operating system
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 5
- •Environment
- •Search engine
- •Text 5a. Operating systems
- •Operating Systems: Hidden Software
- •General Features of Operating Systems
- •Vms: help, directory, search, copy, rename, print, show users, show time, create/directory, phone, delete Unix: write, cp, lpr, Is, mkdir, date, rm, man, grep, rwho, mv
- •Text 5b. Linux
- •Grammar review reported speech The sequence of tenses in the subordinate clauses:
- •The sequence of tenses is:
- •Modal verbs changes
- •Indirect speech for exclamatory and imperative sentences.
- •Indirect speech of imperative sentence
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Speaking/writing
- •Unit 6 graphical user interface
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 6
- •To perform
- •Text 6a. The graphical user interface
- •Post-reading Exercises
- •Text b. Interface with menus
- •Grammar review nouns
- •Plural of countable nouns
- •Irregular plurals
- •Plural forms
- •The possessive case
- •Nouns determiners
- •Grammar exercises Nouns
- •Some, any, much, many, a lot, few, a few, little, a little
- •Articles Revision of the Use of the Articles (in tables) Classification of Nouns
- •Functions of the Indefinite Article
- •Don’t confuse the articles in the generic function
- •The use of articles with names of people
- •The use of articles with other proper names
- •Numerals
- •Fractional numerals Common Fractions
- •Decimal Fractions
- •Extra information
- •Exercises
- •Writing
- •Unit 7 applications programs
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 7
- •Spreadsheet
- •Word processor Text 7a. Applications programs
- •Post-reading Activity
- •Text 7b. Application service providers
- •Listening and speaking
- •Vocabulary Bank. Interview. Former student
- •Environment
- •To upload
- •Exercises
- •Grammar review
- •First conditional
- •Second conditional
- •If I were you…
- •Oral Activity
- •Third conditional
- •Making a wish
- •Grammar revision
- •Writing
- •Unit 8 multimedia
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 8
- •Animation
- •Text 8a. Multimedia
- •Post-reading activity
- •Text 8b. New applications of the computer
- •Videodisc
- •Digital Video
- •Multimedia Authoring Systems
- •Virtual Reality
- •Grammar review. Adjectives. Adverbs. Pronouns.
- •The Adverb
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Pronouns
- •Writing
- •Unit 9 data processing
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 9
- •Equipment
- •Text a. Data processing and data processing systems
- •Basic data processing operations
- •Data storage hierarchy
- •Text 9b. Word processing facilities start up
- •Advantages of computer data processing
- •Grammar review The Modal Verbs (mv) can/could
- •May/might
- •To have (got) to
- •Should/ought to
- •Will/would
- •Grammar exercises
- •In brackets.
- •May/might/be allowed to
- •Must/have to/need
- •Mustn’t - needn’t - don’t have to
- •Should/ought to
- •Revision exercises
- •Unit 10
- •Internet and lan technology
- •Text 10a. The internet
- •Text 10 b. The language of e-mail
- •Grammar review the verbals The forms of the Verbals or the non-finite forms of the verb
- •The Infinitive
- •Infinitive without to
- •Complex object
- •See someone do and see someone doing
- •Personal/impresonal construction (the complex subject)
- •The gerund
- •Have something done
- •Writing/speaking task
- •Unit 11 networks
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 11
- •Text 11 a. Computer networks
- •Text 11 b. Network Communications
- •Grammar review questions
- •1. General questions
- •2. Special questions
- •3. Alternative questions
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Yes/No Questions (General Questions)
- •Exercise 3. Quiz champion Claude Jennings is answering questions. Put in these words and phrases: How Far, How Long, How Often, How Many, What, What Colour, What Kind, When, Where, Who
- •Subject/Object Questions
- •Prepositions in Wh-questions
- •Exercise 5. Put in the question. Use What? and put the preposition in brackets at the end.
- •Negative Questions
- •Exercise 9. Complete the conversations using the words in brackets.
- •Question Tags (Disjunctive Questions)
- •Exercise 12. Complete the conversation. Put in tags.
- •Earthquakes
- •Grammar revision
- •Writing
- •Unit 12 the world wide web
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 12
- •Text 12 a. The world wide web
- •Viruses are something to worry about, but not a lot. A little common sense and the occasional virus-scan will keep you virus-free.
- •Speaking
- •Censorship on the Web
- •What do you think?
- •Grammar revision
- •Writing Projects. Perform the project given
- •Unit 13 programming languages
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 13
- •Text 13a. Types of programming languages
- •Machine Languages
- •Assembly Languages
- •Procedural Languages
- •Natural languages
- •Verb Prefix Meaning Example
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 14
- •Most Common Suffixes
- •Why Learn Suffixes?
- •Interviewer / trainer / employer / interviewee / trainee / employee
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 15
- •Introductory reading
- •In the following list, the two-word forms (shown first) are still more common, but the one-word forms are starting to take hold.
- •In the following list, the one-word forms (shown first) are more common, but the spaced or hyphenated forms are still being used.
- •In the following list, the hyphenated forms (shown first) are more common, but the solid or spaced forms (if given) are used in materials aimed at industry insiders.
- •Variables and the Declaration Statement
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 16
- •Isc2 cissp
- •Unit 17 web design
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 17
- •1. Bad Search
- •2. Pdf Files for Online Reading
- •3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
- •5. Fixed Font Size
- •6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
- •7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
- •8. Violating Design Conventions
- •9. Opening New Browser Windows
- •10. Not Answering Users' Questions
- •11. Discourse markers: softening and correcting
- •Interview: Website Designer
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 18
- •Store / hold / input / control / convert / process / provide (x2)/ speed up
- •5. Cache … (5) … extremely fast access for sections of a program and its data.
- •Imagine that you are to make a report on the following topics. While preparing it use the main information from the text.
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 19
- •Virus protection
- •Internet crime
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 20
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 21
- •Information systems analysis and design
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 22
- •If X, then y
- •Virtual reality
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 23
- •Appropriate
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 24
Grammar review reported speech The sequence of tenses in the subordinate clauses:
Main clause |
Action |
Subordinate clause |
Examples |
PAST |
Simultaneous |
The Past Indefinite or the Past Continuous (no matter which of the past tenses is used in the principle clause) |
Mark was watching her while she was reading. |
Preceding |
The Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous (no matter which of the past tenses is used in the principle clause) |
He didn’t know why she had left without leaving a note. |
|
Following |
Future-in-the-Past (no matter which of the past tenses is used in the principle clause) |
The note on the table said that she would not back. |
|
PRESENT |
Simultaneous |
The Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous (no matter which of the past tenses is used in the principle clause) |
James has told me that he is too busy now. |
Preceding |
The Present Perfect, the Past Indefinite, the Present Perfect Continuous or the Past Continuous (no matter which of the past tenses is used in the principle clause) |
I don’t think we have met before. From your looks it’s clear that it has been raining hard. |
|
Following |
Means of expressing future (no matter which of the past tenses is used in the principle clause) |
I hope he will help me. |
|
FUTURE |
Simultaneous |
The Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous |
They will find they have much to do there. |
Preceding |
The Present Perfect or the Past Indefinite |
He will find that Mary has left. |
|
Following |
Means of expressing future |
I’ll let you know what he will do. |
TENSE CHANGE - IN - INDIRECT SPEECH Present Simple tense into Past Simple Present Continuous tense into Past Continuous Present Perfect tense into Past Perfect Present Perfect Continuous into Past Perfect Continuous Past Simple into Past Perfect Past Continuous into Past Perfect Continuous Past Perfect into Past Perfect Future Simple, will into would Future Continuous, will be into would be Future Perfect, will have into would have
DIRECT SPEECH |
INDIRECT SPEECH |
PRESENT TENSE |
|
PRESENT SIMPLE changes into PAST SIMPLE |
|
He said, “I write a letter” She said, “He goes to school daily” They said, “We love our country” He said, “He does not like computer” |
He said that he wrote a letter. He said that she went to school daily. They said that they loved their country.
He said that he did not like computer. |
PRESENT CONTINUOUS changes into PAST CONTINUOUS |
|
He said, “He is listening to the music” She said, “I am washing my clothes” They said, “We are enjoying the weather” She said, “I am not laughing” |
He said that he was listening to the music. She said that she was washing her clothes. They said that they were enjoying the weather. She said that she was not laughing. |
PRESENT PERFECT changes into PAST PERFECT |
|
She said, “He has finished his work”
He said, “I have started a job”
I said, “She has eaten the meal”
They said, “We have not gone to New York. |
She said that he had finished his work. He said that he had started a job.
I said that she had eaten the meal.
They said that they had not gone to New York. |
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS changes into PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS |
|
He said, “I have been studying since 3 o’clock” She said, “It has been raining for three days.” I said, “She has been working in this office since 2007” |
He said that he had been studying since 3 o’clock. She said that it had been raining for three days. I said that she had been working in this office since 2007. |
PAST TENSE |
|
PAST SIMPLE changes into PAST PERFECT |
|
He said to me, “You answered correctly” John said, “They went to cinema” He said, “I made a table” She said, “I didn’t buy a car” |
He said to me that I had answered correctly. John said that they had gone to cinema. He said that he had made a table.
She said that she had not bought a car. |
PAST CONTINUOUS changes into PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS |
|
They said, “We were enjoying the weather” He said to me, “ I was waiting for you”
I said, “It was raining” She said, “I was not laughing” |
They said that they had been enjoying the weather. He said to me that he had been waiting for me. I said that it had been raining. She said that she had not been laughing. |
PAST PERFECT changes into PAST PERFECT (tense does not change) |
|
She said, “She had visited a doctor” He said, “I had started a business” I said, “She had eaten the meal” They said, “We had not gone to New York. |
She said that she had visited a doctor. He said that he had started a business. I said that she had eaten the meal. They said they had not gone to New York. |
FUTURE TENSE |
|
FUTURE SIMPLE TENSE WILL changes into WOULD |
|
He said, “I will study the book” She said, “I will buy a computer” They said to me, “We will send you gifts” I said, “I will not take the exam” |
He said that he would study the book. She said that she would buy a computer. They said to me that they would send me gifts.
I said that I would not take the exam. |
FUTURE CONTINUOUS TENSE WILL BE changes into WOULD BE |
|
I said to him, “ I will be waiting for him” She said,” I will be shifting to a new home” He said, “I will be working hard” He said, “He will not be flying kite” |
I said to him that I would be waiting for him. She said that she would be shifting to a new home. He said that he would be working hard. He said that he would not be flying kite. |
FUTURE PERFECT TENSE WILL HAVE changes into WOULD HAVE |
|
He said, “I will have finished the work”
She said, “They will have passed the examination” He said, “I will have gone” |
He said that he would have finished the work.
She said that they would have passed the examination. He said that he would have gone. |