- •Read and Learn the words:
- •2. Find Russian equivalents to every English word:
- •3. Read and translate the text: what is a computer?
- •Looking at hardware
- •Procesor and memory
- •Unit II
- •2. Read and translate texts: monitor
- •Keyboard
- •Arrow Keys
- •Function Keys
- •Additional keys
- •3. Translate the words and word-combinations into Russian:
- •4. Name all basic keys on the keyboard.
- •Look at the pictures and explain functions of the keys in English:
- •Put the key names in the table according to their form:
- •7. Translate the names of the keys on the extended keyboard and determine their functions:
- •Find the answers in the text:
- •9. Make up the story about the keyboards and their using. Unit III
- •1. Read the text, write down the new words. Learn the words.
- •Additional hardware
- •Give Russian equivalents to the word-combinations:
- •Read and translate the text: using disks and disk drives
- •Read and translate texts: Labeling and Caring for a Floppy Disk
- •Protecting Information on a Floppy Disk
- •Inserting and Removing a Floppy Disk
- •Personal Computer (pc)
- •Read and translate the text: what is a computer?
- •4. General understanding. Answer the questions to the text:
- •5. Which of the listed below terms have Russian equivalents:
- •6. Which of the listed above statements are true/false. Specify your answer using the text:
- •7. Match the following:
- •8. Questions for group discussion:
- •Read and translate the text: hardware
- •3. General understanding. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the listed below statements are true/false? Specify your answer using the text:
- •5. Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary
- •6. Which of the following is Hardware and which is Software?
- •7. Match the following, learn the definitions:
- •8. Questions for group discussion:
- •Find in the text and translate the following words with the dictionary. Learn the words:
- •Read and translate the texts: looking at operating system What is ms-dos?
- •Find the appropriate English forms for the following
- •Unit XI
- •1. Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: using files and directories
- •3. Find in the text sentences with the subordinate clause. Read and explain the rule. Translate these sentences.
- •4. Find in the text sentences written in different tenses.
- •5. Translate the following computer messages:
- •Unit XII
- •Organizing Files into Directories
- •2. Speak how to organize your files and directories.
- •3. Translate the following computer messages:
- •4. Look through all the texts and find the synonyms:
- •5. Read, translate and match the following, learn the definitions:
- •Unit XIII
- •Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: types of software
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the following is Software:
- •5. Which of the listed below statements are true or false?
- •6. Give definitions to the following using the vocabulary:
- •7. Speak about Software.
- •8. Say: What is it?
- •9. Translate the following computer messages:
- •Unit XIV
- •Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: operating systems
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Speak about operating systems.
- •5. Discuss what operating system is the most popular and useful and why? unit XV
- •1. Read and learn the words:
- •2. Read and translate the text: windows 95
- •3. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the listed above statements are true or false? Specify your answer using the text:
- •5. Say: What is:
- •6. Discuss the following problems:
- •7. Speak about the operating system Windows you use on your computer. Unit XVI
- •1. Read and translate the text:
- •How much shold an educated man know about computers?
- •Find the meaning of the words. Learn the words:
- •3. Speak on the problem that is discussed in the text. Are you agree? If not, why? What do you think about educated man?
- •4. Read the text: programming languages
- •5. Ask the questions on the text. Make up the dialogue to the text. Unit XVII
- •1. Translate the following words, pronounce them correctly:
- •2. Memorize the following word-combinations:
- •High level programming languages fortran
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Speak on arithmetic and logical assignment statements in fortran.
- •Read and speak about the elements of programming. The elements of programming
- •8. Read and translate the text:
- •1. Read and learn the new words:
- •Read and translate the text:
- •Introduction to the www and the internet
- •General understanding. Answer the questions to the text:
- •4. Which of the listed below statements are true/false. Specify your answer using the text.
- •5. Define the following using the vocabulary:
- •6. Say in English:
- •7. Match the following:
- •8. Read the text and ask questions to it: The Internet
- •9. Questions for group discussion:
- •10. Read the text and render in English: Bill Gates
- •Read and learn the new words:
- •Read and translate the text: my future profession
- •Translate into English:
- •4. Add to your vocabulary:
- •5. How do you see your future profession? Please answer the following questions:
- •2. Put the following sentences in plural and write them down.
- •3. Use the Possessive Case of the Nouns:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Open the brackets using the right form of adjectives:
- •6. Translate the sentences:
- •12. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form. Use Past Tenses:
- •13. Put the verbs in brackets in the right form:
Unit XIII
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Read and learn the words:
aid – помощь
to attach — присоединять
general-purpose — общего назначения
main board — материнская плата
memory capacity — вместимость памяти
regard — отношение
regardless — не смотря на
to boot — загружать
to secure [si'kjuə] — обеспечивать безопасность
to transfer — переводить, переносить
2. Read and translate the text: types of software
A computer to complete a job requires more than just the actual equipment or hardware we see and touch. It requires Software — programs for directing the operation of a computer or electronic data.
Software is the final computer system component. These computer programs instruct the hardware how to conduct processing. The computer is merely a general-purpose machine which requires specific software to perform a given task. Computers can input, calculate, compare, and output data as information. Software determines the order in which these operations are performed.
Programs usually fall in one of two categories: system software and applications software.
System software controls standard internal computer activities. An operating system, for example, is a collection of system programs that aid in the operation of a computer regardless of the application software being used. When a computer is first turned on, one of the systems programs is booted or loaded into the computers memory. This software contains information about memory capacity, the model of the processor, the disk drives to be used, and more. Once the system software is loaded, the applications software can be brought in.
System programs are designed for the specific pieces of hardware. These programs are called drivers and coordinate peripheral hardware and computer activities. User needs to install a specific driver in order to activate a peripheral device. For example, if you intend to buy a printer or a scanner you need to worry in advance about the driver program which, though, commonly goes along with your device. By installing the driver you «teach» your main board to «understand» the newly attached part.
Applications software satisfies your specific need. The developers of application software rely mostly on marketing research strategies trying to do their best to attract more users (buyers) to their software. As the productivity of the hardware has increased greatly in recent years, the programmers nowadays tend to include as much as possible in one program to make software interface look more attractive to the user. These class of programs is the most numerous and perspective from the marketing point of view.
Data communication within and between computers systems is handled by system software. Communications software transfers data from one computer system to another. These programs usually provide users with data security and error checking along with physically transferring data between the two computer's memories. During the past five years the developing electronic network communication has stimulated more and more companies to produce different communication software such as Web-Browsers for Internet.