- •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
- •I have done I did
- •The present perfect continuous and present perfect
- •I have been doing I have done
- •Grammar Exercises
- •Speaking/writing
- •Even if minis and mainframes were inexpensive, why it is unlikely that you would buy one for your home.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
- •4. Speak about os as hidden software.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
- •Much, many, little, few, a lot, plenty
- •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
- •Functions of the Definite Article
- •Don’t confuse the articles in the generic function
- •The use of articles with names of people
- •The use of articles with geographical names
- •The use of articles with other proper names
- •Numerals
- •The four operations
- •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
- •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
- •Vocabulary Bank Unit 24
3. Alternative questions
They begin with an auxiliary verb and have or + an alternative
E.g.: Do you like classical or pop music?
Have you bought five or six cakes?
Did they stay in London or in Brighton?
4. Tag-questions
They are formed with the auxiliary verb used to form general questions in each grammar tense. If the sentence is positive, the tag question is negative and if it is negative, the tag-question is positive.
E.g.: He likes cats, doesn’t he?
They are not our students, are they?
She has been working here for five years, hasn’t she?
There are no armchairs here, are there?
But! I am right, aren’t I?
We put the tag-question “will you” at the end of a request to make it more polite.
E.g.: Close the door, will you?
We put the tag-question “shall we” at the end of a question if it is a suggestion to do something together.
E.g.: Let’s go to the garden to have tea, shall we?
Questions to the subject of the sentence or its attribute
Questions to the subject of the sentence or its attribute begin with “who”, “what”, “which” “whose”. They don’t change the structure and word order of the sentence.
E.g. She was there with us.
Who was there with us? – She was.
E.g. Who has done this exercise? – We have.
E.g. Two of them liked our proposal.
Which of them liked our proposal? – Two of them did.
Remember: “Who” is always singular.
Questions to the subject and the object of the sentence
If the subject and the object of the sentence are personal nouns the question starts with “who”, but the word order is different.
Compare:
E.g. Mary saw Claire at the station.
Who saw Claire at the station? – Mary did.
Who did Mary see at the station? – Mary saw Claire.
Grammar Exercises
Question Phrases:
1. What time is your friend arriving? |
- Half past eight. |
2. What kind of/what sort of club is it? |
- A nightclub. |
3. How often do you go out? |
- About once a week. |
4. How long will the meeting last? |
- An hour or so, I expect. |
5. How much money did you spend? - About a hundred pounds. |
- About a hundred pounds. |
6. What colour is your toothbrush? |
- Yellow. |
7. How old is your sister? |
-She’s twenty. |
8. How far is the beach? |
- Only five minutes’ walk. |
9. How many televisions have you got? |
- Three. |
Exercise 1. Complete with the correct question word
1. _______ much are the potatoes? |
- One dollar. |
2. _______ can I do for you? |
- I want two white T-shirts. |
3. _______ can I get a newspaper? |
-In Park Street. |
4. _______ is your best friend? |
- It’s Paul. |
5. _______ does Lisa live? |
-In Boston. |
6. _______ colour is your new car? |
-It’s white. |
7. _______ do you collect? |
-Stickers. |
8. _______ can help me? |
I can. |
9. _______ about some grapes? |
No, thanks. |
10. _______ was your first word as a baby? |
Mama. |
11. _______ were you born? |
On March 9th. |
12. _______ were you born? |
In St. Maarten. |
13. _______ were you last Sunday? |
I was working. |
14. _______ can we have a picnic? |
I know a nice place near a pond. |
15. _______ are you going to take with you? |
Some sandwiches and a coke. |