11. Discuss with your partner. What have you tried or would like to try on the Internet:

Example:

-I’d like to send e-mail to niece in the USA;

-practice your English;

-chat online;

-Send e-mail;

-find different information;

-download something;

-buy something in the Internet shop.

12. Read the conversation between a young girl and a person on the computer helpline, remember the similar situation with your computer and say how you solved it:

-Hello. IT helpline. I am John. Can I help you?

-Oh, hello! Yes, yes. There is a problem with my computer.

-Can I take your name and phone number, please?

-Yes, I’m Nataliya my phone number is 0674032443

-Thank you. Which system do you have?

-It’s a notebook or laptop. I always mix them up. It is a portable computer that is smaller than a laptop, isn’t it?

-You are right, I am sorry, which system do you have? You know it Apple, Windows, Linux?

-It is Windows 2003.

-Right, what’s the problem?

-The screen has gone blank just now and all my work disappeared.

-Well, you are sitting in front of the computer now?

--Yes, I am.

-Is computer on?

-Yes, It is.

-What’s on the screen?

-Nothing.

-What happens when you move the mouse?

-Nothing.

-Can you press Alt and Delete on the Keyboard?

-At the same time?

-Yes.

Oh, nothing it’s blank.

-Well, I must take a monitor to the office and check it up.

13. Imagine that you work on a computer helpline. Give some advice to keep the computer in order.

14. Work in groups. Read the names of people’s communication and say how you prefer to communicate with friends and relatives. Make a dialogue with your partner:

1. By e-mail;

2. On phone;

3. Face to face;

4. On cell phone;

5. On SMS;

6. On Skype.

15. Read some basic rules for cell phone, discuss them with your partner:

1. Turn you sell phone off or set the ring to ‘silent’ or ‘vibration’ when in these locations: restaurant, airplane, theater, library, museum, church, classroom, business meeting, hospital.

2. When in public, always keep the conversation very brief and to the point. Long conversations should take place in private.

3. Keep your voice low when talking in public so as not to distract others around you.

4. When in small enclosed spaces such as a doctor’s waiting room, leave the room and go out in the hall to converse.

5. When you are with someone you need to answer the cell phone, excuse yourself. If the conversation will be more than a minute, move a slight distance away to carry on the discussion.

6. Driving and talking are not about manners or etiquette, but about safety.

7. Ear-buds: hands-free works well, especially when driving, shopping or gardening.

16. Use the prompts and your own ideas to discuss the statement below:

-The more people use technology, the less they communicate.

-Technology helps you to keep up-to-date.

-Too much information, no time to think.

-technology gives you the opportunity to use language in new ways.

17. Read and translate the story of the ‘First tv advert’. Fill in the articles where it is necessary:

On _______ evening of 1 July 1941, _____ lot of New Yorkers were at home to watch ______ baseball game on TV between ______ New York Dodgers and _______ Philadelphia Phillies. But that evening they watched more than just _______ baseball game; they also watched _______ small piece of business history.

Because at one point in ______ evening, the TV station interrupted _______ program and Bulova watch appeared on _______ screen. It stayed there for 60 seconds and then disappeared. ‘What was that?’ people asked. In fact, it was _________- world’s first TV advert.