- •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:
Looking at hardware
The personal computer is the universal technical system. Its configuration (structure of the equipment) can be changed as required. Your computer is made up of many parts called hardware. Your hardware runs software – programs that translate the instructions you send to your computer into a language it can understand. If you are not familiar with the terms hardware, floppy disk, and operating system, you should read this text before setting up or using the operating system.
The base configuration of a hardware that makes up the most basic computer system includes three devices: a monitor, a keyboard, and a system unit. In a system unit are placed the most important components which are called internal. The system unit holds your computer’s processor, memory, disk drives, ports, and video card. To a system unit also are connected external and peripheral units. On appearance system units differ with the form of tank. Tanks can be horizontal (desktop) and vertical (tower).
Procesor and memory
The central processing unit (CPU) and memory are located on chips inside the system unit. The processor is a main chip of the PC in which all calculations are made. The processor consists of cells in which the data can vary. Internal cells of the processor are named as registers.
Key parameters of the processor: an operating voltage, a digit capacity, working clock rate, coefficient of an internal clock multiplying, a size of the cache memory.
The processor is connected to other devices of a computer groups of the explorers called as buses. Main 3 buses are the address bus, the data bus, the bus of commands.
The address bus is connected to it the processor for copying data from a cell in one of registers. On the data bus there is a copying data from the RAM in registers of the processor and back. The bus of commands is commands act from the RAM, from areas where programs are stored.
The CPU is the brain of your computer. This is the place where your computer interprets and processes information. You may have heard computer memory referred to as RAM. The term RAM stands for random access memory. The instructions that your computer gets and the information your computer processes are kept in RAM during your work session.
Your computer’s RAM is not a permanent storage place for information; it is active only when your computer is on. When you turn off your computer, information is deleted from memory. To avoid losing your work, remember to save it on a disk, a permanent storage device, before turning off your computer.
Computer memory is measured in kilobytes or megabytes of information. (A byte is the amount of storage needed to hold one character). One kilobyte equals 1024 bytes, and one megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes. Software requires a minimum amount of random access memory to work properly. You can usually find memory requirements on software packaging, or you can ask your software dealer.
4. Translate the following word-combinations:
central processing unit disk drive
random access memory basic computer system
permanent storage place software packaging
computer processor operating system
permanent storage device software dealer
memory requirements to work properly
5. Find sentences with the following words in the text.
Тranslate the sentences:
is made up make up are located
may have heard are kept is deleted
is measured
6. Speak about processor and memory and other parts your computer consist of.