3. Sharpening reading skills. Making Inferences

Mark each statement true (T) or false (F).

____ 1. The word glitches means everything is working perfectly.

____ 2. Revolutionized means "caused major changes."

____ 3. Cell phones are noisy.

____ 4. You can talk to a caller on your pager.

____ 5. Voice mail is more complicated than an answering machine.

____ 6. Turn of the century means "the end of one century and the beginning of another."

____ 7. The U.S. Postal Service is called snail mail because it's much faster than e-mail.

____ 8. You need a credit card to make Internet purchases.

4. Understanding idioms and expressions

‘Computerese’ has given English a lot of new words and phrases. Match each one in column 1 with its definition or description in column 2 by writing the correct numbers on the lines.

1. CD-ROM

2. computer literacy

3. e-commerce

4. log on

5. hard drive

6. surf

7. voice mail

8. Web site

9. word processing

10. World Wide Web

__ a plastic disk, similar to a compact disk, that can store a great deal of information and loads programs onto the computer's hard drive

__ a device inside the computer for permanently storing data

__ automatic recorded phone messages that help callers leave a message for the right person or department

__ the ability to use a computer

__ used to type text, such as letters or essays, on the computer

__ connect with an ISP

__ part of the Internet, often used for doing research

__ not a spider's home - an exact Internet location, for example, of a particular, business, person, or publication

__ search the Web to find information

__ the buying and selling of products and services via the Internet

5. Taking words apart

A. Use the correct word part listed below to make the opposite of each word.

de- dis- down- un-

Example

wired unwired

Add the Prefixes Change the Prefixes

1. civilized _________ 3. increase ___________

2. connect _________ 4. upload ____________

B. Discuss the difference between the Internet and an intranet.

6. Practising sentence patterns

A. Time expressions with when Phrases or clauses with when can begin or end a sentence. When the time clause begins the sentence, a comma is used to separate it from the main idea.

Examples

When I got home, I sent an e-mail.

I sent an e-mail when I got home.

Write your own sentences with time clauses that tell when something happened:

1. When _________________________________________________ .

2. ___________________ when ______________________________ .

B. The Pronoun one In formal writing, the author may not want to address the reader directly with an informal you or an imperative form. Instead, one is often used to refer to a nonspecific person (meaning people in general).

Change these sentences from second person to third person. Use one and a singular verb.