Exercises

1. 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?

2. 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.

3. Give English equivalents:

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

4. Give Russian equivalents:

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

5. 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

6. Put the verbs into the correct tense form:

1. In the last decade the Internet (to grow) at a surprising rate.

2. With the help of the Web you (to be able) to get access to different information resources.

3. Getting access to different sites (to be) done with the help of a special programme known as “browser”.

4. In a few years Internet-enabled TV sets (to be) used extensively.

5. What type of cables (to be) telecommunication systems connected with?

7. 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.

8. Translate into Russian:

1. The Internet is a magnificent global network with millions and millions of computers and people connected to one another where each day people worldwide exchange an immeasurable amount of information, electronic mail, news, resources and, more important, ideas.

2. Hypertext is the text that contains links to other documents.

3. Internet Video conferencing programs enable users to talk to and see each other, exchange textual and graphical information, and collaborate.

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

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

Основная литература

1. Агабекян, И. П. Английский язык для бакалавров = A Course of English for Bachelor’s Degree Students. Intermediate level / И. П. Агабекян. – Изд. 2-е, стер. – Ростов н/Д:
Феникс, 2012. – 379, [3] с.: ил. – (Высшее образование).

2. Гольцова, Е. В. Английский язык для пользователей ПК и программистов: Самоучитель. – СПб.: КОРОНА-Век, 2012. – 512 с.

3.Кудрявцева, Л. В. Тексты и контрольно-тренровочные упражнения по английскому языку для студентов отделения «Математика и информатика». – Славянск-на-Кубани, 2012. – 96 с.