Dialog box

This is a picture of a computer screen with one window open. The window contains a dialog box. This one is the Find dialog box. You can see name on the title bar at the top of the screen. You use this dialog box to find files or folders.

Near the top of the window there are three tabs. The first tab is for searching by name and location. There are two other tabs: one for searching by date and the other for advanced searching.

To search for a file by name and location, you type the name of the file in the drop- down list box called Named. In this example, the user wants to find all the document files. Than you choose the folder to search in using another drop-down list box labelled Look in. Here the user wants to look in the folder called Personal on the C drive. So the first drop-down list box is for the name, and the second drop-down list box is for the location.

Between the Named and Look in drop down boxes is a text box. In the text box you type any words which you want to look for. In this example, the user only wants documents with the word «sport».

You start the search by clicking on the Find Now command button. Other buttons stop the search, start a new search, or browse the drives.

Task 7. Study this screen display. Can you find these items?

1. a window 2. an icon 3. a pointer 4. a menu

Task 8. Read and translate the text.

WIMP

(Window, Icon, Menu, Pointer)

Most computers have a Graphical User Interface. c

The interface is the connection between the user and the computer. The most common type of GUI uses a WIMP system. WIMP stands for Window, Icon, Menu (or Mouse), Pointer (or Pull-down/Pop-up menu).

Windows A window is an area of the computer screen where you can see the contents of a folder, a file, or a program. Some systems allow several windows on the screen at the same time and windows can overlap each other. The window on the top is the one which is «active», the one in use.

Icons are small pictures on the screen. They represent programs, folders, or files. For example, the Recycle Bin icon represents a program for deleting and restoring files. Most systems have a special area of the screen on which icons appear.

Menus give the user a list of choices. You operate the menu by pressing and releasing one or more buttons on the mouse.

The Pointer is the arrow you use to select icons or to choose potions from a menu. You move the pointer across the screen with the mouse to use the object selected by the pointer.

Task 9. Find the definitions of the following items.

1 menu

2 interface

3 window

4 active window

5 pointer

6 icon

Grammar: Imperative Sentences

В качестве сообщений компьютера используются английские словосочетания и предложения. Они оформлены в соответствии с грамматическими правилами английского языка, но имеют некоторые специфические особенности:

1. сообщения носят повелительный характер:

PRESS THE KEY-Нажмите на клавишу

ENTER DATA-Введите данные

INSERT DISKETTE IN DRIVE-Вставьте дискету в дисковод

INSERT Вставьте	DISKETTE дискету	IN DRIVE в дисковод
Сказуемое Что сделайте?	Дополнение прямое Вставьте что?	Обстоятельство места Вставьте куда? во что?

The negative form is built with the help of the auxiliary verb “do”:

DO NOT (=DON’T) INSERT DISKETTE IN DRIVE

2. в сообщениях к пользователю традиционная форма вопроса: