"Playing computer games teaches us about life"

Use specific reasons & examples to support your answer

A) Why do you think for adult people computer is difficult thing to get . Their children know much more about computer

B) RENDER the opinion of the web designer Станислава Мерзлякова

Чем старше человек, тем ему Помню, была реклама одной из

труднее преодолеть себя, тем компьютерных фирм, там, где

труднее научиться работать на котенок превращался в монитор,

компьютере. Наши родители И голос за кадром произносил:

считают: компьютер осваивают компьютер - это просто,

только гении. А ведь котенок был прав - это

действительно очень просто.

Щ IN YOUR OWN WORDS Create a small poem defining a computer. Useful

notes -

Fugue is a poem which define in different ways one and the same word that is

the theme and is used many times.

Example: White is a soft breeze , or a snowflake on my nose.

White is a wedding, a shower of love.

White is soft, not too rough

White is a beautiful colour. You can start like this: Computer is just a machine that stores some information....

Or: Computer is my life and joy...

Lesson 4

[lOJ A) Discuss

> Many people think computers are too expensive and just a waste of money.

> Do you know why they are so expensive?

> Make up a list of your ideas.

B) Read the passage and find the answer to the given above question.

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1 Work for icm, a computer company in California.

As you probably know, the chip is the brain of the computer, the most important

part. Why does it have to be small? Well, there are two reasons.

Number one is convenience: we want nice, small, portable machines.

Number two is speed: in a small circuit the electronic signals arrive faster,

simply because they travel a shorter distance.

Today's chips are very small indeed. But we design the electronic circuit on big

pieces of paper. Then we make a big photographic negative - as big as a table.

Finally we print this picture on a piece of silicon 250 times smaller than the

negative. That's the secret of making chips!

We cut the pieces of silicon under a microscope. Then we test the chips. Only 30%

work correctly, so we throw away about 70%. That's why they are expensive.

A modern chip can store more than 8 million characters - that's 4,000 pages of a

book!

C) Read the text again and draw a flow-chat to show how chips are made. Use these word combinations:

a) sell the good one / b) cut the silicon / c) test the chips /d) design on paper /e) photographic negative f) throw away the bad ones / g) print on silicon

D) Give the definition to the following:

Chip / Silicon / Photographic negative

E) Your parents are against buying a computer as it is very expensive. Use at least 5 arguments to persuade them. Explain them that a good computer can't be cheap.

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