Exercise 6. Writing

Imagine that you are Barry Stephens, the sales manager of Sunrise Computers.

Write а standard letter to your clients about ‘New software products on the market’ and offer them а free demonstration disk.

Consult the help box.

Help box BUSINESS LETTER The conventions and the components of basic business letters Writer’s address Date Reference Recipient’s address Salutation Main body of letter Subscription Signature Designation

Unit 16 faces of the internet

Exercise 1. Try to answer these questions.

1. What is the Internet?

2. What can you do on the Internet?

Make a list of possible applications.

3. How has the Internet changed the way people study/work/live?

4. Do you think the Internet will have an important influence on your daily life in future?

A program like Microsoft Internet Explorer allows you to search view and manage information over the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/

Exercise 2. Maybe we can find it on the Internet.

Words	Meanings
online	using an Internet service
browse	go from place to place and look around
web browser	a service that helps you travel on the Internet
search engine	a service that helps you look for something specific on the Internet
World Wide Web	a part of the Internet where you find most of what you are looking for
web site	a location or destination on the Internet
web page	one screen, or “page”, of information on a web site
URL	an Internet address for finding a web site; for example, the URL for the Dominie Press web site is www.dominie.com
www.	an abbreviation for World Wide Web; appears at the beginning of most Internet addresses
.com	an abbreviation at the end of an Internet address, indicates that the web site is a commercial site; that is, it was put on the Internet by a company
password	a word or string of letters that only you know
log on	begin using an Internet service (type your password and so on)
go to	select an item on the screen; for example, “Go to Search on the toolbar.”

Exercise 3. Reading.

А Which Internet utility (1 to 7) would you use to do each of these tasks (а to g)? Read the text to check your answers.

1. е-mail а send а message tо another person via the Internet

2. Web browser b transfer files from the Internet to your hard disk

3. Newsreader с have а live conversation (usually typed) on the Internet

4. IRC/chat program d connect tо а remote computer by entering certain instructions and run programs on it

5. FTP software е take part in public discussion areas, called newsgroups

6. Videoconferencing f fetch and view Web pages on the Internet

7. Telnet g participate in live conversations, using text, audio and video