Newsgroups

news group- an Internet discussion group made up of people with a common interest who use an area on a server computer to display messages about their interest

Task 9. You can exchange views on almost any subject by joining an Internet newsgroup. Which of these groups would interest the following people?

1. alt.algebra.help

2. alt.asian-movies

3. alt.comics.batman

4. alt.education.disabled

5. alt.fasion

6. alt.sport.soccer.european

7. alt.tasteless-jokes

8. rec.antiques.bottle

9. alt.food.wine

10. alt.music.world

1. a football fan

2. a student with maths problems

3. a bottle collector

4. a comic book collector

5. a fan of Indian cinema

6. some one interested in clothes

Task 10 Write a brief email to a friend describing your course. Your message should answer these questions.

1. What is your course called?

2. When do you have classes?

3. Which subjects do you study?

4. Which subjects do you enjoy most? Why?

5. Which subjects do you like least?

6. What do you do in your free time?

GRAMMAR: Indefinite Tenses (Passive Voice).

THE PASSIVE VOICE:

Data	is	lost
Данные	потерянны
Что?	Что с данными сделано?
Подлежащее	Сказуемое
Объект, над которым совершено действие	Действие, которое совершено

Note: in computer messages the auxiliary verbs are often omitted:

e.g. Data is lost = Data lost.

The basic form of the Passive Voice:

to be + Ved(VIII)

the Present Tense – am/is/are loaded, found

the Past Tense – was/were loaded, found

the Future Tense – shall/will be loaded, found

Task 12. Pay attention to the following sentences:

1. Historically, most programs have been written in "higher-level" languages such as COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, and C.

2. C is a structured, procedural programming language that has been widely used both for operating systems and applications.

3. C is being quickly replaced as the programming language by C++.

4. Java can be used to create complete applications that may run on a single computer or be distributed among servers and clients in a network.

5. Using a language that comes with a virtual machine for each platform, your source language statements need to be compiled only once and will then run on any platform.

Task 13. Change the sentences into the Passive Voice:

1. A programmer writes language statements.

2. The program processes the source code.

3. An assembler converts the assembler language statements into machine language.

4. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a computer executes elementary instructions.

5. Most languages share many functional features.

Task 14. Translate into English:

1. Последовательность нулей и единиц иногда называется машинным кодом.

2. PL/I был разработан в начале 1960-х (in the early 1960s) как альтернатива ассемблеру.

3. “Виртуальная машина” используется для обозначения либо операционной системы либо любой программы, которая запускает компьютер.

4. LISP был создан для работы над проблемами искусственного интеллекта (artificial intelligence).

5. Программы на языке Ассемблера выполняются быстрее, чем программы тех же задач, написанные на других языках.

PROBLEM- SOLVING

Task 11. Questions for group discussion:

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 is necessary on the WWW?

2. World famous authors and publishers say that the Internet violates their copyright because Web-program­mers put all kinds of books, pictures, music, films and programs free on the Internet and this reduces their sales and profits.

3. Has anyone in your group experience working on the Internet? Ask them 1) about the difficulties they had;

2) useful information retrieved;

3) fun they got?

4. Why so few people have experience working on the Internet?