Voice input

Today you can also interact with your computer by voice with a voice-recognition system that converts voice into text, so you can dictate text directly onto your word processor or email program. You can also control your PC with voice commands; this means you can launch programs, open, save or print files. Some systems let you search the Web or chat using your voice instead of the keyboard.

3 Прочитайте текст, вставте пропущені слова (письмово). (три слова - зайві)

Active words: by; output; expensive; communication; hardware; available; computer hardware; common; textual information; to; necessary; peripheral; selection;

Input and output devices

An output device is any piece of (1) … equipment used to communicate the results of data processing carried out by a computer to the outside world. An input device is any (2) … used to provide data and control signals to a computer.

In computing, input/output, refers to the (3) … between a computer and the outside world. Inputs are the signals or data sent (4) … the system, and outputs are the signals or data sent (5) … the system to the outside.

The most (6) … input devices used by the computer are the keyboard and mouse. The keyboard allows the entry of (7) … while the mouse allows the (8) … of a point on the screen by moving a screen cursor to the point and pressing a mouse button. The most common outputs are monitors and speakers.

A printer is a very common (9) … device. It is used to print the computer output on paper. Colour printers are (10) … but most printing is done using a mono printer that prints only in black. There are three main kinds of printers: dot-matrix, inkjet, and laser.

4 Доповніть речення, використовуючи відповідні слова, що означають дії з мишкою (письмово)

1. To start a program or open a document you d _ _ _ _ _ - c _ _ _ _ on its icon - that is, you rapidly press and release the mouse button twice.

2. If you want to select a menu option, you just c _ _ _ _ on the left button.

3. If you want to find the commands for a particular text, image, etc., you have to r _ _ _ _ - c _ _ _ _ on it.

4. If you want to move an object, press the button and d _ _ _ the object to the desired location.

5 Знайдіть відповідності і напишіть назви комп’ютерних клавіш (письмово)

1. It produces upper-case letters, but it does not affect numbers and symbols. 2. It removes the character to the left of the cursor or any selected text. 3. It works in combination with other keys, e.g. you press this key and C to copy the selected text. 4. It is used to confirm commands; in a word processor, it creates a new paragraph. 5. It represents letters and numbers.

6 Прочитайте та вивчіть правила (усно)

COMPOUND NOUNS

Compound nouns consist of two or more words used together as a single word, e.g. hard drive. In a compound there is a headword and one or more modifiers: ink – jet (modifier) printer (head). Modifiers can refer to different things:

- material, e.g. silicon chip = a chip made of silicon;

- use or function, e.g. search engine = a program used to find information on the Web;

- activity or profession, e.g. software engineer = a person who designs software;

- place, e.g. web portal = a site on the Web that acts as a gateway to other sites;

Compound nouns are written in different ways:

- as two separate words, e.g. control panel = a utility that lets you configure and adjust a system;

- as two words joined with a hyphen, e.g. self-test = an automatic examination of a device;

- as one word, e.g. clipboard = a holding place for text or graphics you've just cut or copied;

Unfortunately there are no rules. For example, you may see clip art, clip-art and clipart. Some compounds change over time, for example two words - web site - become hyphenated after a time, and then eventually end up as one word - website.

The two parts of compound nouns may be:

- noun + noun: address bus = a set of wires that identifies locations, addresses, in the main memory; bandwidth = the rate at which data flows through a cable or network; mail merge = a tool that combines a standard letter with a mailing list to create personalized letters;

- adjective + noun: broadband = high-speed connection, e.g. cable or ADSL Internet access; shortcut = a small file, 1KB in size, that links to a real file stored elsewhere; smart card = a plastic card that contains a small chip;

- verb or verbal noun + noun: scrollbar = part of a window that lets you move through a document; recording head = a mechanism that transfers data to a disk;

- verb + particle: add-on = a hardware or software module that can be added to a computer; set-up / setup = the way in which a program or device is configured;

7 Знайдіть відповідь на запитання: Which compound do these definitions refer to? (письмово)

1. a small piece of silicon which is used in computers; 2. a site that offers email, news, forums, web searching, online shopping and links to other sites; 3. a utility used to adjust computer settings such as fonts, sound and networks; 4. the read/write head of a disk drive; 5. a computer bus used by the CPU to communicate memory locations;