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TIM BERNERS-LEE: FACT FILE

Full name

Personal details

Job

Family

Place of birth

Place(s) of study

Place(s) of work

Place of living

Tim Berners Lee is a British computer scientist who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web (WWW). Berners-Lee enabled a system to be able to view web pages (hypertext documents) through the Internet. He also serves as a director for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which overseas standards for the Internet and world wide web. Berners-Lee has also been concerned about issues relating to freedom of information on the Internet.

Tim Berners Lee was born on 8th of June 1955 in London, England. He went to school in London. After doing his A Levels at

Emanuel School, he went to Queen’s College, Oxford University, where he received his degree in physics. At Oxford, he became more and more interested in computers, and he made his first computer from an old television. Both his parents worked with computers so it isn’t surprising that he loved computers from an early age.

After graduation in 1976, he gained employment for a printing firm in Plessey Poole. From 1980, he was employed as an independent contractor at CERN in Switzerland. A key part of his job involved sharing information with researchers in different geographical locations. To help this process, he suggested a project based on the use of hypertext. The first prototype was a system known as ENQUIRE.

The Internet had been developed since the 1960s as a way to transfer information between different computers. However, Tim Berners Lee sought to make use of Internet nodes and combine it with hypertext and the idea of domains.

Tim Berners Lee later said that all the technology involved in the web had already been developed – ‘hypertext’, Internet; his contribution was to put them all together in one comprehensive package. As Tim

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Berners-Lee said: «I just had to take the hypertext idea and – ta-da! – the World Wide Web.

In 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau he produced the first version of the World Wide web, the first web browser and the first web server. It was put online in 1991. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

In 1994, he went to live in the United States where he now works. In 1995, he wrote an article in New York Times where he said, «The web is a universe of information and it is for everyone.»

In 2004 he was knighted for services to the global development of the Internet.

On 30 March 2011, he was one of the first three recipients of the Mikhail Gorbachev award for «The Man Who Changed the World», at the inaugural awards ceremony held in London.

Tim Berners Lee was recognised for his invention of the world wide web in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He tweeted «this is for everyone» at the 2012 London Olympics.

Now he lives in Massachusetts in the USA. He is married and has three children.

(from http://www.biographyonline.net/business/tim-berners-lee.html)

Ex. 8. Discuss the following.

1.Do you often surf the Internet?

2.Why do you surf the Internet?

3.Is the Internet necessary for your future job?

4.What way can you use the Internet for professional purposes?

5.What professional websites do you know / surf?

Ex. 9. Watch the video «Engineering and Information Technology» where you can see the best student projects during the 22nd Annual Engineering and Information Technology Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnktiKFRYcU. Which project do you find the most interesting and useful there?

Ex. 10. Discuss what positive changes can be done in your sphere of study with the help of information technologies. Can you offer any project to implement into practice?

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TAPESCRIPTS

UNIT I, PART 1

Ex. 4a

A:Okay, so I need a few details. First, what’s your full name?

B:It’s Shireen Rahman. Shireen’s S-H-I-R …

A:Yes?

B:-double E-N.

A:S-H-I-R double E-N … Shireen, and how do you spell your surname?

B:Rahman. That’s R-A-H-M-A-N.

A:Okay, great. And what’s your address?

B:14 Abbot’s Road, Colchester, CO2 7 CK.

A:Okay, and what’s your home phone number?

B:It’s 01206 879879.

A:Okay … 01206 879879, and your work number?

B:01206 765456.

A:Lovely. And what’s your e-mail address?

B:It’s s.rahman@firstserve.com.

A:And what’s your nationality? British?

B:Yes.

A:Are you married?

B:No, I’m not.

A:And what’s your occupation?

B:I’m a medical student.

A:Okay, great, and last question. How old are you

B:I’m twenty-three.

A:Fine, that’s everything …

UNIT I, PART 1

Ex. 3

1.A: … because, you see, I don’t usually have breakfast. I’m never hungry in the morning.

B:Really? I love breakfast. I have a really big breakfast every day! I love to start with…

2.A: … so anyway because I’m thirty this year I want to…

B:Are you thirty this year? Really? Me too! It’s horrible, isn’t it!

3.A: Are you married?

B:No how about you?

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A:No, me neither.

4.A: So do you eat meat?

B:No, I don’t. how about you?

A:Yes, I eat a little bit, but not much.

5.A: Yeah, and I’m really lucky. I’ve got a lovely flat in the city centre, just near the station … and I live with some friends …

B:How fantastic! I still live with my parents, in Kingston. Do you know where that is …?

6.A: So where are you from?

B:I’m from South Africa, Durban. You’re from Argentina,

aren’t you?

A:Well, Chile, actually, Santiago.

7.A: … because I haven’t got any brothers and sisters, you see, I’m an only child.

B:Yeah, me too. Do you like being on …?

UNIT II, PART 1 Ex. 6 Conversation 1

K = KATIE, PH = PHILLIP, P = PETRA

K: Phillip, can I introduce you to Petra, a friend of mine from Prague? PH: Hi, Petra. Nice to meet you.

P: Nice to meet you, too.

K: You were in Prague last year, weren’t you, Phillip?

PH: The year before last, yeah. It’s an absolutely beautiful city. The architecture is amazing! I loved it.

P: Oh, yes, I do, too. Were you there for a holiday?

PH: Yes and no. I actually went over to watch Scotland play football.

I’m a big football fan.

P:So am I! I was at that match too with my brother and father. They’re crazy about football. It was a good game; a shame there were no goals!

PH: Yeah. There are never any goals when I go to matches! Anyway, what are you doing here in Edinburgh?

P: I’m working as an au pair with a Scottish family for a few months to improve my English.

PH: So you look after the children and do the housework?

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P: Well, really I just look after the children. I’m terrible at housework, I don’t like it all!

PH: Oh, it’s the same with me. I hate it, I’m terrible.

P: Yeah, and they’ve got four children, so I’m pretty busy!

PH: Gosh! I can’t think of anything worse than spending my day with four children!

P: Oh, don’t you like children? I really enjoy it; they’re lovely children. PH: Oh, not for me, thank you! Anyway, so … erm … which part of

Edinburgh are staying in?

P: I’m near the university, Dalkeith Road. Do you know it?

PH: Yes, as a matter of fact I live very near there too, Clerk Street. It’s very nearby.

P: No, I don’t know it.

PH: Well, perhaps I could come round and see you some time, and we could go and watch some football together?

P: Yeah, that would be great. I really want to go and watch…

Conversation 2

A = ANDREW, C = CARRIE

A: Hi, Carrie, how are things with you?

C: Oh, hi, Andrew. Okay, I suppose, not too bad.

A: Hm-mm. how’s your job going?

C:Oh, don’t talk about it! I’ve moved to a new office and just hate it. The people are so unfriendly! Actually, I’m looking for a new job!

A:Oh, really? Me too! I’m just so bored with my job. I’ve been there far too long!

C: So what kind of thing are you looking for?

A:Mmm. I don’t know really. Maybe something in the travel industry.

I’d love to work somewhere nice and hot, somewhere like Spain.

C:Oh, I know! It would be lovely to go and live abroad, wouldn’t it?

Hey, we ought to go out there together, you and me, set up a travel business.

A:The only problem is, I don’t speak Spanish, so I don’t know if that would count against me.

C:No, I don’t speak Spanish either. Don’t speak any foreign languages for that matter. It’s terrible, isn’t it?

A:Mmm. Oh well, one day, maybe. Anyway, how are your family?

Are your Mum and Dad still…?

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UNIT III, PART 1 Ex. 8a

Who really invented the telephone and the radio?

Many schoolchildren learn that the Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell (1) ______ (invent) the telephone in 1876. But the real inventor (2)

_____ (be) Antonio Meucci, a poor Italian American. He (3) _____

(share) a workshop with Bell in the 1860s, and (4) _____ (make) a «talking telegraph» for his wife who was ill in bed, so that she (5) _____

(can) call him when she (6) ______ (want) something. But Meucci never

(7) _____ (take) his idea to the US Patent Office, because he was too poor to pay the $250 that he (8) _____ (need). So on February 14th 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (9) _____ (take) the invention to the Patent Office instead. Just two hours later another inventor, Elisha Gray (10)

_____ (arrive) with the same idea – too late!

At the time, nobody (11) _____ (believe) that the telephone was an important invention. Bell’s father-in-law, also a scientist, (12) _____

(describe) the invention as «a beautiful toy». And it was 2002 before the US Congress (13) _____ (decide) that Meucci was the true inventor of the telephone!

But everyone knows that the Italian Marconi (14) _____ (invent) the radio, right? Wrong. Actually, Guglielmo Marconi (15) _____ (steal) his great idea from Nikola Tesla, a Croatian scientist. Tesla (16) _____

(write) an article in 1893 and in it he (17) _____ (describe) his important new invention – the radio.

But just two years later, Marconi (18) _____ (take) the idea to the US Patent Office and soon (19) _____ (begin) to sell it. In 1909 he even (20) _____ (win) a Nobel Prize for his invention.

In 1943 Nikola Tesla (21) _____ (die) in New York, a poor man. That year, the US Congress (22) _____ (decide) that Nikola Tesla was «the true father of the radio».

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