2. Make up a plan in the form of questions.
3. Give the summary of the text according to your plan in a written form.
IV Comprehensive skills
1. Read and remember
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university hut |
гуртожиток |
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engine |
машина, двигун, процесор |
2. Listen to the text “Yahoo! A guide to everything” and try to understand it.
3. True or false statements.
Yahoo is no more such a popular guide.
Information is no use unless you can find it
There were forty main categories in Yahoo!
Yahoo! is clever because it is so well organized.
Yahoo!’s professional surfers spend all day looking at Web sites to think the site is good, interesting or important, and to add it to Yahoo!’s guide.
4. Listen to the text once again and answer the following questions.
What is Yahoo!?
What information have you got from the text about Yahoo!’s authors?
V Communicative skills
Ex. 1 Complete the dialogue using the following words.
cell phones converge devices distribution e-commerce high-bandwidth modems network portable wireless communications
Tim: How's school going, Barbara? Are you taking any new classes?
Barbara: I'm taking another really interesting course called "Business and the Web." We are learning about ___ and how new technological developments will affect the way we buy, sell and market things in the future.
Tim: Wow, that sounds like something I should take.
Barbara: I think it's one of the most useful courses I've had so far. Right now, we are studying ___ . It's a fascinating field. We've had several lectures on how the increasing use of ___ has led to the development of a whole new generation of ___ computers and hand-held electronic ___ .
Tim: What other kinds of topics will you be covering?
Barbara: We are going to discuss ___ Internet connections, like cable ___, which will allow us to exchange information more quickly. And from there, we will focus on how Internet, TV, radio, and telephone technologies are all starting to come together.
Tim: I was just reading about that in the newspaper. But how does that relate to online business?
Barbara: As these technologies ___ in the near future, a new high-speed ___ will develop which will be perfect for the ___ of products and services online.
Ex. 2 Be ready to reproduce the dialogue in pairs.
Ex. 3 Read the following FAQs ( Frequently Asked Questions ) about the Internet.
1. What is the Internet?
The Internet is a network of computers linked together by telephone lines, fiber optic cables, satellite, and microwave connections. At the heart of the Internet is a high – speed network of supercomputers.
2. Who started the Internet?
The Internet was started by the United State Department of Defense in 1969. It allowed information to move freely around a military computer network.
3. What is the Word Wide Web?
The Word Wide Web, usually called “the Web,” is the part of the Internet where millions of Web pages containing text, images, and sound from people all over the word are connected. A typical Web page looks like a magazine page, but with your mouse you can click on “live” areas on the page to go to a new screen.
4. What can I use the Web for?
You can use the Web for research, business, entertainment, or personal interests. Some specific things people do on the Web are send E-mail, go shopping, find jobs, get the latest news, order a meal, and make travel plans. And the list gets longer every day!
Ex. 4 Make up and reproduce your own dialogue using such questions and phrases:
speed network of supercomputers, to be called, can use for. Ask how computers are linked together on the Internet; who started the Internet and when; what a typical Web page looks like; what some specific things you can do on the Web; how to use a Web search.
