4 Writing
a) Match the places in column A with the computer uses in column B:
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Banks Factories Homes Hospitals shops |
Control machines Calculate the bill Look after patient records and medicines Provide entertainment and information Control our money |
b) Now fill in the gaps in the paragraph about computer uses:
Computers are now part of our everyday life. In shops, they 1 ____. In factories, they 2____. In 3____, they look after patient records and medicines. When we have a bank account, a computer 4____. In our homes, computers 5____.
5 Listening
a) Listen to a lecturer describing to the new students the way in which computers may be useful to them. As you listen for the first time, look a Figure 1:
As you know, in computing a common way of showing how things are related is to use a connectivity matrix.
Figure 1.
History Business studies
Languages
Computer
Social Sciences Computer Science
Physics and Chemistry
b) Now listen again and try to fill in the table to show how different people need different software (e.g. computer science students will need to know something about databases):
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spreadsheet |
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DTP |
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statistics |
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financial software |
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6 Summing-up
Speaking
What do you use your computer for?
What features are the most important for you?
Unit C. Computer Uses (2): Word Processing
1 Vocabulary
superior
fashion
fashionable
old-fashioned
significant
significance
intellectual
intelligence
artificial intelligence (AI)
to forget (forgot, forgotten)
age
to spell
spelling
neat
to invite
invitation
hide (hid, hidden)
to prefer
preference
preferable
to split
amount
to correspond (with, to)
corresponding
to substitute
substitution
to retrieve
retrieval
to recover
recovery
shadow
to outline
to underline
to notify
notification
to define
definition
proof
to proof-read
to prove
pronunciation
to pronounce
obvious
typeface
plain
italics
bold
to strike
to strike through
a) chose the correct translation:
1) fashion
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a) произношение |
b) написание |
c) мода |
d) определение |
2) spelling
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a) произношение |
b) написание |
c) мода |
d) определение |
3) neat
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a) аккуратный |
b) предпочтительный |
c) очевидный |
d) обычный |
4) to define
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a) прятать |
b) заменять |
c) определять |
d) соответствовать |
5) to substitute
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a) прятать |
b) заменять |
c) определять |
d) соответствовать |
6) pronunciation
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a) произношение |
b) написание |
c) мода |
d) определение |
7) to hide
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a) прятать |
b) заменять |
c) определять |
d) соответствовать |
8) obvious
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a) аккуратный |
b) предпочтительный |
c) очевидный |
d) обычный |
9) to correspond
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a) прятать |
b) заменять |
c) определять |
d) соответствовать |
10) plain
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a) аккуратный |
b) предпочтительный |
c) очевидный |
d) обычный |
b) Match the words with their meanings:
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1) notification 2) age 3) prove 4) shadow 5) preference 6) underline 7) fashionable 8) invitation 9) amount 10) significant |
a) предпочтение b) подчеркивать c) уведомление d) важный e) доказывать f) приглашение g) количество h) возраст i) модный j) тень |
c) Match the words with their definitions:
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1) significance 2) recovery
3) bold 4) outline
5) spell 6) strike through 7) typeface 8) intelligence 9) invite 10) retrieval |
a) a regaining of something lost or stolen b) the process of searching for and obtaining data from a computer system c) put a line through (e.g. a word) d) the power of learning, understanding and knowing; mental ability e) darker than other text on the printed page f) show shapes or boundaries g) ask to come or to go somewhere h) importance i) the design of letters and characters j) name or write the letters of a word
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d) Find synonyms:
important –
to divide –
to report –
evidence –
to hit –