- •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
8.20 Give the main features of a) a Modern Computer Specialist;
b) an Up-to-date Computing Product.
Begin with:
a)A Modern Computer Specialist should (do)…; He or she shouldn’t…; As for me, I’d like to be (such) a specialist…
b)An Up-to-date Computing Product should be (developed)…; It shouldn’t be…
8.21 Ask questions on the topic Computer Security.
a) 1. If all this computing can be good for a person.
2. By whom health questions have been raised.
3. If computer users are getting bad radiation.
4. If they have some more health problems connected to their computing.
5. What kind of protection many manufacturers now offer screens with.
6. If there are some things workers can do to take care of themselves.
7. If an ergonomically designed workstation can help.
8. What kind of study ergonomics is.
9. Which factors should be taken into account for a properly designed workstation.
11. What experts recommend as coping mechanisms.
b) Ask some more questions.
1. What points should be considered as essential in the checklist for your own personal computer hardware.
2. If one shouldn’t place the computer near windows or doors.
3. About subjecting the computer to extreme temperatures.
4. About cleaning of the equipment.
5. About other hardware safeguards.
6. About storing diskettes and the files.
c) Add more questions.
1. What computer-based systems engender our rapidly growing total dependence.
2. If threats to dependable operations are growing in scope and severity.
3. What causes system crashes resulting in service disruptions and financial losses.
4. What hackers and criminally minded individuals do.
5. What that result in.
6. What the scope of their criminal activity could be.
7. What requirements the high confidence systems will meet.
8. How the professionals can apply their knowledge.
9. What kind of product they should develop.
10. Why all this is so important today.
An Additional Text
Read it & make a back translation.
Brain Drain Утечка мозгов
The U.S. computer industry is reaping benefits from the influx of Russians, In- Berkeley, Calif., Chris Doner, president of Access Softek, recently hired three Soviet émigrés for full-time jobs and took on five part-timers, including one in Moscow, to help develop software to work with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows. Doner would also like to hire more Russians in Moscow, where "good, talented people cost you a couple hundred per month," but he hasn't pulled that off yet, because electronic communications with Moscow are lagging. When it comes to software development for video games, it's hard to rival 36-year-old Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris. A video game in which geometric shapes must be aligned into solid rows, Tetris is packaged with each of the 9 million handheld Nintendo Game Boys sold in the U.S. He is now working at Bullet-Proof Software in Redmond, Wash. More comfortable working on an old IBM 286 computer, Pajitnov has developed a sequel to Tetris, called Hatris - and has other games in the works. Bullet-Proof founder and Director Hank Rogers says he likes using Soviet brainpower in developing software for entertainment and for medical systems. He's hired 66 Soviets in Moscow at bargain prices and says he profits from their more cerebral concept of entertainment. Rdgers' Soviet employees steer clear of the repetitious stock of shoot-'em-up video games and prefer "IQ improvers," as he puts it. |
Компьютерная промышленность США получает выгоду от притока русских. В Беркли, Калифорния, Крис Доунер, президент фирмы Аксес Софтек, недавно нанял трех советских эмигрантов для работы в штате и пятерых на полставки, включая одного в Москве, для помощи в разработке программного обеспечения под Windows фирмы Microsoft. Также, Доунер хотел бы еще нанять русских в Москве, "где хорошие, талантливые люди стоят вам пару сотен в месяц", но он пока не смог это сделать, потому что электронная связь с Москвой неустойчива. Что касается разработки программного обеспечения для видеоигр, то в этом трудно соперничать с 36-летним Алексеем Пажитновым, создателем Тетриса. Видеоигра Тетрис, в которой геометрические формы должны быть выстроены в непрерывные ряды, входит в комплект каждой из 9 миллионов проданных в США ручных компьютеров фирмы Nintendo. Сейчас он работает в фирме Builet-Proof ("Пуле-Непробиваемая") Software в Редмонде, штат Вашингтон. Пажитнов, более уверенно чувствующий себя на старом 286-м компьютере, разработал продолжение Тетриса, названное Хатрис, и кроме того, он создает другие игры. Основатель и директор фирмы Bullet-Proof Хэнк Роджерс говорит, что ему нравится использовать советский интеллектуальный потенциал при разработке программного обеспечения для развлечений и медицинских систем. Он нанял 66 советских граждан в Москве по бросовым ценам и говорит, что имеет выгоду от их концепции развлечений, ориентированной на умственную деятельность. Советские работники Роджера избегают повторявшегося потока видеоигр типа "убей-их" и предпочитают, по его собственному выражению, "развивать интеллектуальный коэффициент". |
(Business Week, November 17, 1991)
8.22 Prepare reports on the topics of UNIT 8 or retell any text.