- •Prereading Discussion…………………………………………………..5
- •Prereading Discussion…………………………………………………74
- •Computer Literacy for Everyone? Topics for Essays, Oral or Written Reports
- •Text 5a Read the article & ask each other questions. Worry About Computers? Me?
- •5.1 Find the English equivalents to the following in Text 5a.
- •Feed in English, Print out in French
- •5.7 Choose the best idea for the text above.
- •Read the text & make a back translation.
- •5.12 Choose the best idea for the text above.
- •5.13 A) Give synonyms to:
- •5.15 Ask your groupmates:
- •Read the text below & make a back translation.
- •5.16 Choose the best idea for the text above.
- •5.17 A) Give synonyms to:
- •5.18 Put in the missing prepositions/conjunctions from the box.
- •5.19 A) The information of the reading passage helps you to see the structure of the main computer part.
- •A) Read the text, make a back translation.
- •5.22 Choose the best idea for the text above.
- •5.24 True or false? Add some more statements for your interlocutor.
- •5.27 Find the equivalents to the following in the dialogues above.
- •5.29 A) Translate the sentences. B) Give the Past, Future & Passive or Active forms of the modal verbs. Mind the equivalents:
- •5.30 Complete the sentences (if-, when- clauses).
- •Find the Modal Verbs & the sentences containing Conditional Mood in the dialogue above & translate them.
- •5.34 List ten modern inventions into the table given underneath, choose from the following.
- •A) Read & translate the text.
- •5.37 A) Translate the following.
- •5.39 Match the following to know more meanings of point.
- •5.40 Render the text below in English. Speak about your own experience, if any, of using computers.
- •5.42 A) Add to every Job Title the corresponding character qualities from the list & give some opposite meaning words using prefixes /suffixes, etc.
- •5.43 Imagine this box is the central part of a computer. Draw and label all the things that you can imagine might be plugged into the computer.
- •Personal Computers
- •Word power
- •Text 6a Read the article below & ask questions to each other.
- •A) Work in pairs: say if the given statements are true or false finding the necessary details in Text 6a above.
- •6.4 Give a synonym for each word/phrase (in the parentheses).
- •Supply the given answers with the proper questions.
- •6.7 Mind the meanings of the words in the boxes. Match the following with the hints underneath or translate it.
- •6.8 A) Read the following to know better mathematical expressions.
- •In Terms of Figures
- •A) Read the article and decide why the author chose the title
- •Can you suggest a better title? b) Render the article.
- •6.10 Find the English equivalents to the following Russian phrases.
- •6.14 Choose the correct word to complete each sentence. You may have to change some words slightly.
- •6.15 Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.
- •6.16 Cross out the one word that does not have the same meaning as the other three words.
- •6.17 Translate the sentences paying attention to Participle I and Participial Constructions.
- •6.18 Translate the sentences, mind the Gerund.
- •Read the text and make up a dialogue.
- •Read the text and make up a dialogue. The Storage Unit
- •6.20 А) Give Russian equivalents to the following.
- •6.21 Translate the following attributive groups.
- •Read the story & retell it in brief.
- •It is never too late to learn
- •6.32 Read & add your items. Advantages of Computers
- •Aaaa framework
- •What are the disadvantages of slow modems?
- •6.36 A) Complete the sentences to revise the Reported Speech.
- •6.37 Translate the sentences.
- •6.39 Answer the questions & ask some more on the topic.
- •Totally electronically
- •Interdependent?
- •Read the text below & make up a dialogue.
- •7.2 Find the equivalents to the following.
- •Read the next part of the text & ask each other questions on it.
- •7.6 Let’s revise comparatives.
- •7.7 A) Study the phrases containing good – better – the best.
- •7.8 Match the following sentences with the hints underneath.
- •Read the following text & make a list of the key words.
- •7.9 Find the following words and phrases in the texts above.
- •Read & make up a dialogue.
- •7.13 Ask your groupmates
- •7.14 Translate into English.
- •7.15 Find equivalents to the following
- •Get ready to speak on the topic. Choose the part according to your specialty.
- •Role-play the dialogue checking the meaning of any unfamiliar term.
- •7.20 A) Study the direction below & make up your instruction.
- •7.21 Self-checking questions.
- •7.22 Read the piece of information given below & supply your opinion.
- •8.2 Match the following.
- •Read & get ready to give advice.
- •8.4 Find the equivalents to the following in the text above.
- •Is Computing Healthy?
- •Read & get ready to give advice.
- •8.9 Render the following into English in brief.
- •A) Read & get ready to answer all the questions from the text.
- •8.11 Join the split sentences.
- •8.12 Put the proper prepositions, conjunctions & adverbs in each sentence.
- •A) Read & make a back translation.
- •Viruses
- •Read to know more on the topic.
- •8.14 Join the split sentences.
- •8.15 Answer the questions.
- •8.16 Identify the –ing & -ed (or equivalent) forms. Choose the right Russian word(s) in the brackets. Translate the sentences.
- •8.17 Identify the Infinitive functions. Choose the proper Russian word(s) in the brackets. Translate the sentences.
- •Read & discuss the problem.
- •It Is Vital for the Professionals
- •8.20 Give the main features of a) a Modern Computer Specialist;
- •Read it & make a back translation.
- •Appendix
- •The author of the article is ( автор статьи) …
- •The article is written by (статья написана) …
- •***Комментирование
- •****Выражение своего отношения к содержанию прочитанного
6.17 Translate the sentences paying attention to Participle I and Participial Constructions.
1. A computer is a machine performing reasonable operations on the information. 2.In a digital system numbers or digits are used, the operations being performed directly on digits. 3. There are many types of calculating devices, the abacus being one of the simplest. 4. Performing complex calculations a computer does the work of a great number of people. 5. A computer is the "heart" of an electronic control system, other parts of the equipment being auxiliary. 6.Computers are divided into two classes, analogue and digital, the basic distinction being the way in which numbers are represented inside the machine 7.Being highly accurate electronic computers are of great help to the designers. 8.Modern general-purpose-computers operating at super-high speeds provide solutions of a great number of complex problems.
6.18 Translate the sentences, mind the Gerund.
1.A computer must be capable of storing data to be used in later calculations. 2.Before starting calculations the machine must have the necessary data. 3.The arithmetic unit solves different problems by performing the sequence of Instructions. 4.The computer can make translations from one language into another by transforming words into arithmetic symbols and vice versa. 5.Before starting one’s higher education one should search for one’s calling. 6.His misleading does not satisfy me.
Text 6C1
Read the text and make up a dialogue.
the binary and decimal systems
Modern electronic digital computers perform their calculations in the binary system. The binary system is called so in contrast to the decimal system and it consists only of two digits 0 and 1. In the decimal system the place of a digit in a number tells the value of the digit. When we write 275 we mean 275=2x100 + 7x10 + 5x1. In the binary system the decimal digits are expressed by the combinations of 0 and 1.
Some typical binary numbers and their decimal equivalents are respectively:
a) binary - 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 10100; b) decimal - 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 20. The binary system was chosen as a code for digital computers because its two digits can easily be represented in a machine. They can be represented by a switch which is open for expressing one, or closed for zero, or by a pulse which is present or absent (pulse - for one, no-pulse - for zero) or by polarization of magnetic cores etc.
The representation of decimal digits is naturally more complicated. The word "bit" comes from the combination "binary digit", for which tile scientists have taken the first two letters from, the word "binary" and the last letter from the word "digit". This word means the smallest piece of information.
Make up Dialogue 6.19 as follows
AAAA Framework:
Answer the first question Add something
Ask a similar question Appraise the answer.
Binary System
Answer the first question:
what can you say about the binary system?
The binary system is called so … Add something: Modern electronic digital computers perform…
Ask a similar question:
What is the dependence between a digit and the place of the digit in a number in the decimal system?
In the decimal system the place of a digit… When we write 3458 we mean…
Appraise the answer: Oh, as I see you understand pretty well the …
Why was the binary system chosen as a code for digital computers?
Your Turn to Continue, Please!
What is a bit?
where does its name come from?
Text 6C2