- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни
- •Методичні рекомендації до практичних занять
- •Unit 1 The history of computers
- •Language
- •History and information about computers
- •V. Oral Practice
- •VI. Reading and comprehension.
- •Who invented the computer?
- •Some first computer models
- •Unit 2 Modern computers
- •Vocabulary
- •Reading
- •Range of Computer Ability
- •Language
- •1)Lcd , 2) pdAs, 3) cpu, 4) pc, 5) ram, 6) rom
- •Comprehension
- •The Five Generations of Computers
- •Information, machine words and instructions
- •Language
- •II. Reading
- •Information, machine words and instructions
- •Language
- •Comprehension.
- •V. Oral practice
- •Reading and comprehension.
- •Computers in our life
- •Unit 4 The main parts of the computer’s system
- •Language
- •Personal computer. The main parts of the system
- •IV Comprehension.
- •Oral Practice.
- •VI Reading and comprehension.
- •Personal computers
- •Vocabulary:
- •What is hardware?
- •Unit 5 An operating system
- •I. Language.
- •II. Reading
- •Operating Systems
- •III. Language
- •IV. Comprehension
- •V.Oral practice
- •Meeting a friend
- •Operating Systems
- •Unit 6 The processing of information
- •II. Reading.
- •The processing of information
- •V. Oral practice.
- •Information
- •Instructions
- •Unit 7 Storage Units
- •I. Language
- •Reading.
- •A memory or storage unit
- •Language.
- •Comprehension.
- •Hierarchy of storage
- •Unit 8 Central processing unit
- •I. Language
- •Reading.
- •Central processing unit
- •III. Language
- •IV.Comprehension
- •V. Oral Practice.
- •VI. Reading and comprehension
- •Introduction to the www and the Internet
- •VII Oral Practice:
- •Unit 9 Microcomputer and microprocessor design
- •I. Language
- •II. Reading
- •Microcomputer and microprocessor design
- •IV.Language
- •V. Comprehension
- •VI. Oral Practice
- •2) Single-chip microcomputers
- •VII. Reading and comprehension
- •Microprocessor (mp)
- •Unit 10
- •Input output units
- •I. Language
- •II. Reading
- •Input and output units
- •Language
- •Comprehension
- •V. Oral practice
- •Reading and comprehension.
- •Disk Buffers
- •Unit 11 Computer networks
- •I. Language.
- •II.Reading
- •Computer networks
- •Language
- •Comprehension
- •Surfing the Net
- •Unit 12 My future specialty
- •Language
- •My future specialty
- •Language.
- •IV.Comprehension.
- •Oral Practice
- •VI. Reading and comprehension.
- •How much should an educated man know about computer?
- •Word-building
- •Suffixes that form adjectives
IV Comprehension.
Ex. 10 Find in the text a passage describing:
The main parts of the system.
The functions of the keyboard.
The definition of the personal computer.
The display and the adapter card.
The functions of drives.
Ex. 11 Agree or disagree with the following statements.
Personal computer is used by many people at the same time.
The case and its contents are called the system unit.
The mouse works if you hold it in the air.
The optical drive can play DVDs, CDs and cassettes.
The monitor displays text characters and graphics.
The hard disk drive is outside the computer.
A display adapter card builds the video images.
Ex. 12 Answer the following questions.
What is personal computer?
What are the main parts of the system?
What is called the case?
What functions has the case?
Haw does the mouse work?
What do the floppy drives provide?
What is the difference between floppy drives and hard drives?
What can the optical drive play?
Oral Practice.
Ex. 13 speak on the following problems
The functions of mouse.
The main functions of the case.
A display adapter card.
Ex 14. Fill in the chart. Speak on the topic “Computer system”
VI Reading and comprehension.
Ex. 15 Read the text B without a dictionary for 5 minutes and say what problems are mentioned in the text.
Personal computers
Personal computers also called microcomputers or home computer. The most compact are called laptops. They are portable and work on build-in batteries.
Personal computers are designed for use at homes, schools,and offices. At home they can be used for home management (balancing the family finances, for example) and for playing computer games, watching films or listening to music. Schoolchildren can use computers for doing their homework and many schools now have computers for independent learning and computer-literacy studies. In the office personal computers may be used for word processing, bookkeeping, storage and handling of necessary information.
Personal computers were made possible by two technical innovations in the field of microelectronics: the integrated circuit, or IC, which was developed in 1959 and the microprocessor that first appeared in 1971. the IC permitted the miniaturization of computer-memory circuits, and the microprocessor reduced the size of a computer’s CPU to the size of a single silicon chip. Because a CPU calculates, performs logical operations, contains operating instructions, and manages data
flows, a complete microcomputer as a separate system was designed and
developed in 1974.
In 1981, IBM Company offered its own microcomputer model, the IBM PC that became a necessary tool for almost every business. The PC’s use of a 16-bit microprocessor initiated the development of faster and more powerful personal computers, and its use of an operating system that was available to all other computer makers led to a standardization of the industry.
In the mid – 1980s, a number of other developments were especially important for the growth of personal computers. 0ne of these was the introduction of a powerful 32-bit CPU capable of running advanced operating systems at high speeds.
Another innovation was the use of conventional operating systems, such as UNIX, OS/2 an Windows. The Apple Macintosh computers were the first to allow the user to select icons – graphic symbols of computer functions – from a display screen instead of typing commands. New voice-controlled systems are now available, and users are able to use the words and syntax of spoken language to operate their personal computers.