VI. Oral Practice

Exercise 21. Discussion points:

1. Some people think that Internet is very harmful, especially for young people, because it carries a lot of information about sex, drugs, violence and terrorism. Do you think that some kind of censorship (цензура) is necessary on the WWW?

2. Has anyone in your group experience working on the Internet? Ask them about:

   1. the difficulties they had;

   2. useful information retrieved;

   3. fun they got.

3. Why do so many people have experience working on the Internet?

Play-time 

Find 10 terms in the lines

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VII. Listening

Exercise 22. Memorize the following words and word-combinations:

Design – проектувати

Packet switching – пакетна комутація

Nuclear – ядерний

Tremendous – величезний

Exercise 23. Listen to the text “Internet and modern life”. Give the main points of the text.

Exercise 24. Choose the correct answer:

1. The Internet was invented in….

a) the Netherlands;

b) the USA;

c) Great Britain

2. The scientists created the network…

a) to survive during a nuclear war;

b) to communicate with friends;

c) to ease the work of businessmen.

3. One of the advantages of the Internet is…

a) packet switching;

b) watching films free of charge;

c) saving money.

4. The main problems of the network are security and …

a) low speed;

b) control;

c) game addiction.

Exercise 25. Answer the questions:

1. Where did the history of the Internet begin?

2. What was it designed for?

3. What is packet switching?

4. What services does the network offer?

5. What problems do people face while using the Internet?

VIII. Oral Practice

Exercise 26. Speak about the purpose of creation, advantages and problems of the Internet using the questions from ex.25 as a plan.

Unit 2

Input and Output Units

Ι. Vocabulary

Exercise 1. Memorize the following words and word-combinations:

1. input	ввод, входное устройство, вход
2. device	устройство, прибор, механизм, элемент
3. to provide	обеспечивать, снабжать, давать
4. means	средство
5. communication	связь, сообщение
6. accept	принимать (информацию)
7. purpose	цель, намерение, назначение
8. vice versa	и наоборот
9. output	вывод, выходное устройство, выход
10. acceptable	приемлемый
11. message	сообщение, передаваемый блок информации
12. to vary	менять (ся)
13. according to	согласно
14. capacity	способность, емкость
15. auxiliary	вспомогательный, дополнительный
16. rate	скорость, степень, норма, коэффициент, частота
17. control	управлять, контролировать
18. speed	скорость, быстродействие
19. consequently	следовательно
20. tremendous	огромный
21. to release	освобождать
22. ratio	отношение, коэффициент, соотношение
23. advantage	преимущество
24. a punched card	перфокарта
25. punched holes and blanks	перфорированные отверстия и пробелы
26. a factor of advantage	коэффициент преимущества
27. a punched tape	перфолента
28. data-handling equipment	оборудование по управлению данными
29. a high-speed line-printer	высокоскоростное построчно-печатающее устройство
30. the peripheral devices	вспомогательные устройства
31. the proper speed	надлежащая скорость
32. sound blaster	аудиоадаптер, звуковая плата, саундбластер
33. device controller	контроллер внешнего устройства
34. a palmtop	карманный компьютер
35. a laptop	дорожный компьютер, ноутбук

Exercise 2. Guess the meaning of the following international words.

Active, passive, practical, problem, programming, experiment, form, regularly, to construct, to control, peripheral, buffer, impulse, interesting, minute, line, factor, process.

Exercise 3. Define the part of speech of the words below by their suffixes and translate them. Use the table of suffixes.

Noun	Adjective	Adverb	Verb
-er, -ant, -ent, -ist, -ness, -ment, -ion, -ship,-ance, -ence, -(i)ty, -ure	-al, -able, -ible, -ic, -ous, -ful, -less, -ive	-ly	-ate, -ize, -(i)fy, -en

Regularly, printer, presence, tremendous, classify, magnetic, easily, equipment, possible, directly, digital, energize, acceptable, communication, consequently.

Exercise 4. Translate the following words into Ukrainian/Russian:

To take in, advantage, acceptable, rate, data, to call, ratio, to consist of, to connect, a storage device, a paper tape reader, electric typewriter, auxiliary.

Exercise 5. Make pairs of synonyms:

speed; peripheral; to control; to write; auxiliary; to do; to receive; rate; to record; to get; to make; to handle; device; unit; instruction; part; to accept; command; section; information; data; to take in.

Exercise 6. Make pairs of antonyms:

to add; presence; hole; input; north; decimal; to multiply; to divide; binary; south; output; blank; absence; to subtract

Exercise 7. Translate the following word-combinations into English:

Освобождать, средство, менять, способность, обеспечивать, связь, накопитель на жестком диске, блок ввода, символ, выражать, блок вывода, цифра, накопитель на магнитной ленте.

ΙΙ. Reading

Exercise 8. Read and translate the text with a dictionary.