3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the Internet and what is it for?

2. How many people are connected to the Internet at present?

3. What are the advantages of the Internet?

4. How does it function?

5. What other services does the Internet offer?

6. What is an Internet-enabled TV set and how it can be used in the nearest future?

7. What is WAN?

8. How are the networks connected with each other?

4. Make all types of questions to the following sentence:

The next generation of Internet-enabled televisions will incorporate a smart-card for home shopping, banking and other interactive services.

5. Give English equivalents:

параболическая антенна, громадное количество информации, получать доступ, свежая информация, быть связанным, язык гипертекстовой ссылки, глобальная сеть, соединяться посредством (через).

6. Give Russian equivalents:

magnificent global network reference works, exchange textual and graphical information, smart-card, single integrated network.

7. Match up:

dish	access
to be connected	information
electromagnetic	through
worldwide	markup language
wide area	information
to get	via
hypertext	communications
to navigate	interference
up-to-date	network
to get	aerial

8. Fill in the blanks:

exchange textual and graphical information, worldwide communications, be connected via, dish aerial, single integrated network, get access, up-to-date information, smart-card

1. Computers are connected by means of a modem to ordinary telephone lines or fibre-optic cables, which are linked to a … .

2. The next generation of Internet-enabled televisions will incorporate a … for home shopping, banking and other interactive services.

3. Internet Video conferencing programs enable users to talk to and see each other, …, and collaborate.

4. Networks on different continents can also … satellites.

5. For long-distance or, … computers are usually connected into a wide area network to form a … .

6. The Web is one of the best resources for … .

7. With a few touches at a keyboard a person can … to materials in almost everywhere.

9. Translate:

1. Сеть является одним из лучших источников информации.

2. Сеть основана на системе гипертекстов, при помощи которой можно перемещаться по сети.

3. Интернет представляет собой отличный пример глобальной сети.

4. Компьютеры соединены при помощи модема с телефонными проводами или оптико-волоконными кабелями, которые в свою очередь подключены к параболическим антеннам.

TEXT 9

1. Study the words.

interpret	преобразовывать
sophisticated	сложный
circuits	цепи, схемы
three-dimensional graphics	трехмерная графика
rotation	вращение
rendering	изображение