Post-reading activity

Task 1. Answer the following questions.

1. What various output and input peripheral devices attached to the till do you know? 2. What electronic devices inside of digital cameras are there? 3. Can you name the merits of digital cameras? 4. What two important features are necessary to know when buying a digital camera? 5. What is the main function of storage devices? 6. What do storage devices consist of? 7. What are the types of storage devices? 8. What do read only media enable the user to do? 9. What is the difference between removable storage and fixed storage? 10. What are the functions of input devices such as a keyboard, a scanner, a mouse and a light pen? 11. What do you know about such output devices as monitors? 12. What kind of printers do you know?

Task 2. Find the English equivalents for the following word combinations.

1. точка; 2. запоминающее устройство; 3. электронные весы; 4. перифе­рийное устройство; 5. цифровая клавиатура; 6. штриховой код; 7. носи­тель данных; 8. жесткие диски; 9. световое перо; 10. струйный принтер; 11. память на полупроводниках; 12. хранение данных; 13. единицы измерения; 14. съемное запоминающее устройство; 15. матричное печатающее устройство.

Task 3. Match the terms in Table A with the statements in Table B.

Table A	Table B
1. barcode reader	a) a piece of equipment that is connected to the central processing unit of a computer system.
2. peripheral	b) a measure of the quality of a display screen in terms of the amount of graphical information that can be shown on the screen
3. swipe card	c) a material used for storing programs and data
4. resolution	d) a symbol on the monitor screen that indicates the point on the screen that is being used
5. cursor	e) a plastic card with a magnetic strip running across it containing confidential data
6. storage medium	f) an optical input device that uses the reflection of a light beam to read barcode labels
7. keyboard	g) a common cursor control input device used with a graphical user interface. It commonly has 2 or 3 button switches on top and a ball underneath that is rolled on a flat surface
8. mouse	h) the main electronic input device that has keys arranged in a similar layout to a typewriter

Task 4. Mark the following as True or False.

1. Digital cameras are gradually being developed that are as good as conventional cameras. 2. There is a delay in getting pictures from digital cameras because there is no film requiring chemical processing. 3. The higher the resolution of a digital camera the less memory is required to store the pictures. 4. Storage devices are used to process data and programs that are being used by the processor. 5. Read only media enable the user only to read data. 6. Fixed storage allows the media to be changed or transferred to another computer. 7. Keyboards have a series of special keys to control sending the information to the CPU. 8. A mouse is an output device that operates by controlling the position of the cursor.

Task 5. Complete the gaps.

1. The image displayed on the screen is composed of many rows of tiny dots, called … . 2. Printers create paper copies, called … , of information sent from the computer. 3. Monitors are often called CRTs (cathode ray tubes), DVTs (video display terminals), or simply … . 4. Peripheral devices can be classified generally as … . 5. Storage devices are used to … . 6. EPOS tills used in supermarkets form … . 7. Types of storage devices include … . 8. There is no delay in getting pictures from digital cameras because there is ...

Task 6. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.

printers, software, capacity, drive, pixels, scanner, peripherals, barcode, removable

1. Digital cameras can be attached to a computer to directly transfer pictures for editing using special … and unwanted pictures can be deleted. 2. The resolution of a camera is measured in … and given as two numbers. 3. Other factors that vary between storage devices include: the speed at which the … moves the media past the read/write head and reads or writes data to the storage media and the … of the media. 4. There are various types of … for out-putting text and graphics to paper. 5. Data can take many forms and there is a wide variety of input, output, storage and communication … . 6. … is an input device that acts like a miniature photocopy machine connected to a computer, copying graphic images into the computer and allowing type- written pages to be entered without retyping. 7. … reader is used for looking up prices. 8. … storage enables the user to change the media and transfer it to another computer.

Task 8. Problem solving. Study this list of needs. Which type of peripheral would you advise in each case? See the box for help.

a. barcode reader, b. digital videocamera, c. scanner, d. tape drive, e. joystick, f. robot, g. microphone, h. graphics digitiser, i. keyboard, j. hard disk, k. touchscreen, l. headphones, m. plotter, n. laser printer

1. inputting printed graphics

2. building cars

3. controlling the screen cursor in a fast action game

4. making choices on a screen in a public information terminal

5. recording moving images

6. recording a book loan in a library

7. printing very high quality text and graphics

8. creating drawings

9. printing building plan drawings

10. recording sound

11. listening to music without disturbing others

12. storing programs and data

13. inputting a lot of text

14. backing up large quantities of data

Task 9. These sentences contain typical mistakes. Correct them.

1. A mouse is a device which connected to the computer.

2. These are three main types of a peripherals.

3. Input devices refers to the computer components.

4. The data is processing by a CPU.

5. Printer is peripheral which produces a hard copy.

6. They make our interactions with computers easier.

7. These devices can describe as hard disks.

Task 10. Translate into English.

1. Часть компьютера, которая принимает информацию, называется устройством ввода. 2. Устройство ввода обеспечивает связь между компьютером и человеком, который интересуется его режимом работы. 3. Блок ввода или устройство ввода позволяет установить связь от другого оборудования по управлению данными и человеком с компьютером. 4. Устройство ввода – это функциональная часть компью­тера, которая принимает данные, с которыми будут работать, а также программы для работы. 5. Часть компьютера, которая выдает информацию, называется блоком вывода. 6. Известно, что устройства вывода варьируются в зависимости от емкости вспомогательного оборудования, получающего информацию. 7. Например, на магнитную ленту компьютер может записывать со скоростью 1 000 000 единиц в секунду.8. Устройства ввода и вывода обычно называют периферией или вспомогательным блоком. 9. Все периферийное оборудование работает медленнее по сравнению с самим компьютером. 10. Соответственно для эффективного использования невероятно высокой вычислительной скорости компьютера может использоваться устройство, называемое буфером..