Exercise 1. Imagine your British pen-friend is coming to visit you. Take him round your technical school and show where everything is.

Topic 12. APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS.

Computers are getting deeper and deeper into our life. They are indispensable in space research, communication, medicine, metallurgy, light industry, information technology and many other branches of industry.

Many countries have introduced computers into agriculture, education, transport and many other spheres.

Computers provide security and safety of various processes, diagnose numerous eases and do a lot in monitoring different developments. In short they help to carry out increasingly complex tasks and their application sometimes helps lo preventdisasters, tragedies and accidents.

Many people have a high degree of computer literacy. Computer games are also now very popular with children, young men and grown-ups.

Here is a short curious newspaper item about rather unexpected application of computers:

Telltale computers

The managements of some American schools have found an original application for computers. Now teachers simply feed into the memory of the machine names of the absentees and it begins to phone their parents and warn that their children have missed lessons.

The teachers and parents like the new system and only pupils fаll out of favors with it.

Vocabulary:

Indispensable -необхідний, обов'язковий

space -космос

to provide -забезпечувати

monitoring- відстежування

to carry out -виконувати

task -завдання

to prevent -запобігати

literacy -грамотність

accident –нещасний випадок

disasters -катастрофа

curious -цікавий

unexpected- несподіваний

telltale –ябеда, базіка

to feed into the memory -заносити в пам'ять

to warn -попереджати

absentees -відсутні

to fаll out of favors with –розлюбити, не любити

Exercise1. Answer the following questions:

1. Did you find the information of the newspaper rather curious?

2. Whose idea was it to use computers in this way?

3. Who liked and disliked this idea?

4. And what is your attitude to this idea?

5. Could you offer a better idea?

Exercise 2 Questions for group discussion:

1. Why so many people are still “computer illiterate”?

2. What are the most important applications of computer? (Are computer games just a “waste of time” or it is a nice hobby and a lot of fun?)

3. Who has a computer in your group? Ask them what do they use it for?

Exercise 3 Work in groups of four. Two groups are for the correctness of the following statement “ Invention of the electronic computers is one of the greatest achievements of mankind”. And other two groups are against it. When arguing give some examples and at least 10 arguments., write them down. Exchange your lists of arguments and disagree with them. Be polite at all times

Topic 13. INTERNET.

The Internet is a network of networks. A com­puter network is a group of computers that have been connected so they can communicate with each other. They can send messages to each other and can share information in the form of computer files. The Internet connects more than 18,000 of these networks, and more are being added all the time. On those networks are millions of computers, computer terminals and users — about two million computers and as many as 30 million users, according to some estimates. And it's growing by around 1,000 computers a day. It's no wonder that the president of ISOC (the Internet Society) re­cently suggested that the Internet could reach 1 billion people in the not-too-distant future.

There's nothing astounding about computer networks. Many small companies have networks that connect anywhere from two or three comput­ers to thousands of them.

But the Internet isn't just a network. It's a net­work of networks. Lots of different networks have been joined to produce the world's largest group of connected computers. Some of the networks are run by government bodies, some by universities, some by businesses, some by local community li­brary systems, and some are even run by schools. Most are in the United States, but many are over­seas, in countries ranging from Australia to Zim­babwe. The Internet might make it possible for you to communicate with all these people on all these computer networks through electronic "mail".

When you connect to the Internet, you have, the opportunity to connect to thousands of different systems. Those computers contain government archives, university databases, local-community computing resources, library catalogs, messages about any subject you can imagine, and millions of com­puter files (over two million at last count) containing photographs, documents, sound clips, video, and whatever else you can put into digital form.

Vocabulary:

network| – мережа|сіть|

to| share| – ділити

file| – файл, тека|папка|

terminal| – кінцевий|скінченний| пристрій|устрій|

according| to| some| estimates| – по деяких оцінках

estimates| – оцінка, приблизна цифра

it’s| no| wonder| that| … - не дивно що …

to suggest -припускати|передбачати|

astounding –вражаючий

archives -архів

digital -цифровий

databases –база даних

Exercise1. Listen to the tape and decide who:

1. thinks that the Internet will become less important;

2. thinks computers will change the way we shop;

3. thinks we will be able to speak to computer;

4. hasn’t got a computer at home;

5. thinks that Internet is very slow;

6. thinks we do not really need computers;

7. believes computers will improve women’s lives;

8. shops on the Internet;

9. thinks the Internet will improve their life.

Answer the following questions:

1. According to Jack, what role will computer play in our homes?

2. How does Jack think shopping will change in the future?

3. What arguments does Liam give against computers?

4. What does Caroline hope to do with her computer?

5. What does Caroline think we will use TVs for in the future?

Topic 14. UKRAINE AND ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES.

Now Ukraine is a sovereign state. Ukraine is one of the members of the United Nations Organization and partici pates in the work of many international organizations. We have wide relations with Canada, the USA and Great Britain. Foreign Embassies of these countries work in Kyiv. Scientific cooperation is also very important. Cooperations in culture, education and sport are very important too. We exchange students and teachers with Canada and the USA. The Ukrainian orchestras, pop and opera singers, ballet dancers are warmly received. A lot of tourists from English-speaking countries visit Ukraine every year.

We have some joint political projects with the United States of America and Canada. Such big plants of ours as Cherkasy joint-stock company "Azot", Gorlovka chemical plant "Stirol" sell their products at international market. I'd like to say that many people who are Ukrainian by origin live in Canada. Many of the Ukrainians living now in Canada and other English­speaking countries don't lose connections with Ukraine. A lot of public organizations, educational establishments, religious organizations make considerable contribution to the development of our culture, literature and art. By the by, Canada was the first among the western states that recognized the state independence of Ukraine.