This wonderful computerland
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This wonderful computer land (2 lessons)

The First lesson

Aim:

By the end of this lesson the students will have extracted the detailed information from the give text (Appendix 1) and expressed their point of view on the given problem

I.        Warning - up (10 min)
Activity objective:

The students will revise the words on the topic reading the key-words from the blackboard

and answer the questions about the role of computer in their life.

Instruction:

Make up the word map on the topic "Computer" using the key-words on the blackboard and

give their definitions. Answer the questions (Appendix 2 №1)

Procedure:

The students comment the words and make up the word map on the given topic, then they

answer the questions.

II.        Use of English (15 min)
Activity objective:

The students will complete the information about the computer are the Internet using words

in given topic and passive Voice.

Instruction:

Divide into 3 groups fill in the blanks in the exercises completing the sentences with words.

(Appendix 3 №1,2,3) and using Passive Voice where it is necessary.

Procedure

The students divide into 3 groups and sentences with words and using passive Voice (each

group makes are exercise)

III.        Intensive Reading (15 min)
Activity Objective:

The students will reveal the problem and the main idea of the text (Appendix 1) answering

the questions and finding particular information

Instruction:

Look at the text, read it and find some particular information revealing the problem and

using your own experience and background knowledge. Answer the questions to the text

(Appendix 2 №2,3)

Procedure:

The students read the text and answer the questions revealing the problem of the text and its

main idea.

The second lesson

The students are divided into two groups and play the game "Are you good at computer?"

(Appendix 4) Time: 30 min.

Then they work at the computer using the program in English "passive voice" (15 min)

Theme: "This wonderful computer land".

Aim: By the end of these lessons the students will have expressed their point of view on the given problem, repeated the words on the given topic and extracted the detailed information from the given text (Appendix 1).

I.      Warming-up (time: 10 min). Activity objective:

The students will revise the words on the topic reading the key words from the blackboard, find a suitable definition for them and answer the questions about the role of computer in their life.

Instruction:

1. Look at the words, give their definitions and make up the wordmap on the topic "Computer".
2. Answer the questions (Appendix 2, №1).

Procedure:

The students comment the words and make up the wordmap on the given topic, then they answer the questions.

II.     Use of English (15 min). Activity objective:

The students will complete the information about the computer and the Internet using words on given topic and Passive Voice.

Instruction:

Fill in the blanks in the exercise completing the sentences with the words (Appendix 3, №1, 2, 3). (Students are derided into 3 groups; each group makes one exercise).

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You are going to read a newspaper article about a schoolboy who set up a successful Internet business. Eight sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-l the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).

My son's a computer genius

Tom Hadfield created a f 15m Internet business

by the age of 16.

His father describes life

with a child prodigy.

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om was always advanced for his age. He learned to walk and talk early, and was fascinated by words and numbers. He was only two when he

5 got his first computer. In fact, it was bought for his older sister. Even before his aptitude for mathematics became apparent, Tom was teaching himself to play chess on it. |0T M

10 Although Tom's sister attended the local primary school, Tom never quite settled in at the neighbourhood playgroup. Г 1 | J Early pastimes included shuffling and memorising the

is order of two packs of playing cards, or working out how many seconds there are in a day, a week, a year.

We hoped that school would keep him occupied, but although he enjoyed the

го many friends he made, he soon grew bored with lessons. It wasn't the teachers' fault. 1 2 | | What about his friends? What would happen when he was in the top year? The proposed solution raised

и more problems than it tried to solve.

By the time he was seven or eight, Tom was playing football regularly for

his school and for a team organised by supporters of the local football club. His

30 skills as a businessman had begun to show through as well. He washed our car, and those of the neighbours, for 50p each. | 3 \ J He preferred to invest it in a bucket, sponge and bottle of car shampoo.

и Secondary school began and Tom soon discovered the World Wide Web. For his twelfth birthday, we got him 'wired up', largely because this was the only way to get him home from the house of a

40 friend who already had Internet access.P4 | ]] We learned later that Tom was already planning then to postpone serious studying until the year he took his final exams at 16.

45 Tom says that he drew up the business plan for Soccernet, now the world's most popular football website, while he was

daydreaming in a lesson. Since then, its success has provided his father with

so full-time employment, generated millions of pounds in advertising, and now attracts more than seven million readers a year. The site is now valued at Ј15m. |  5 |     ]  He has also had the chance of

55 leaving school to pursue a football career as a goalkeeper with Brighton EC. or stay at school and follow a business career.

|  6  Г   J One is, 'Aren't you worried about  Tom   spending   so   long   at   a

60 computer?' And the other: 'Isn't it a problem that he misses so much school because of his business commitments?' The answer to both is no. Tom spends

65 anything up to twelve hours a day at the keyboard, but he still manages to go around town with his friends and play football two or three times a week. He rarely watches television.

7o As for missing school, the teachers who understand Tom recognise the benefits he enjoys from being active in the 'real' world. [ 7 | J If anything, the past four years have been like an

75 extended business studies project, an experiment in personal and social education. After sixth-form college, Tom hopes to go to Oxford University to study Politics,   Philosophy   and   Economics.

so Throughout, he intends to enjoy himself doing all the things normal adolescents do, while building up his own business.

So it may not be long before he is sitting at his computer in his room at

85 university, running a global business in his spare time.

A   His other interests haven't harmed his education; they have added to it, made it more meaningful.

В   They suggested the possibility of moving him up a year but that was no answer.

С   There are two questions friends most frequently ask.

D   From that day, school began to recede further and further into the background.

E   We all hoped secondary school might prove more challenging.

F    As a result, Tom has been offered employment around the globe, frequently by corporations that did not realise that he is still a schoolboy.

G   Instead he preferred to play by himself at home.

H   But he didn't want to spend the money on sweets.

I     By the age of three, he had learned how to break into the program and change sides every time the computer was about to declare checkmate.

Electronics in the home

Tuning-in

Task 1        Make a list of things in your house which use electronics. Compare your list

with that of another group.

Task 2        Find out the meaning of these abbreviations. You can use Appendix 1 on page

] 88 to help you.

1     1С        2    CD        3    hi-fi

Reading   Reading for a purpose

In your study and work, it is important to have a clear purpose when you read. At the start of most units in this book, you will find tasks to give you that purpose.

Task 3        Read quickly through the text on the next page. Tick [ У ] any items mentioned

in the list you made in Task 1.

Electronics in the home

Electronics began at the start of the twentieth century with the invention of the vacuum tube. The first devices for everyday use were radios, followed by televisions, record players, and tape recorders. These devices were large and used a lot of power.

   The invention of the transistor in 1947 meant that much smaller, low-powered devices could be developed. A wide variety of electronic devices such as hi-fi units and portable radios became common in the home.

It was not until 1958 that microelectronics began with the Ю   development of ICs (integrated circuits) on silicon chips. This led to a great increase in the use of electronics in everyday items. The introduction of the microprocessor allowed electronics to be used for the control of many common processes.

Microprocessors are now used to control many household items such 15   as automatic washing-machines, dishwashers, central heating

systems, sewing machines, and food processors. Electronic timers are found in digital alarm clocks, water heaters, electric cookers, and microwave ovens. Telephones use electronics to provide automatic dialling and answerphone facilities. New entertainment devices have 20   been developed, such as video recorders and CD (compact disc) players.

In the future, electronics are likely to become even more common in the home as multimedia entertainment systems and computer-controlled robots are developed.

Fill in the gaps in this table with the help of the text.

Date        Invention        Applications in the home

early 20th century        

                transistor                

19 58                      automatic washing-machines,

future        —                

Use the space below to make a list of ways in which you think electronics may be used in the home in the future.

Internet

The net has been with us for longer than you think. To trace its origins we have to return to prehistoric computing times (the late 1960s). It was started then by the us Army as a computer network without a centre. The Idea was that an enemy attack couldn't destroy a loosely - linked network of computers with no centralised control. The Internet has its good side - that of rapid communication. If you want to contact someone in another part of the world fast, the Internet could be for you. In the 1970s many of us universities joined the us army Network. The e-mail began. What's more, when universities in Europe joined the system it went global.

In 1983 there were 1000 computers on mis system. By 1986 there were 60000. Amazing! It was around this worldwide computer network at the end pf the 1980s - perhaps because if the end of the Cold War between American and Russia, or may because PCs and modems became cheaper to buy, or a combination of both factors - the Internet became more popular and more commercialized. In the 1990s cybersites - places where you could pay to surf the webs white having a snack and a drink - appeared all over the place.

The net is important all the time. People can already use the Internet for ban king and
shopping. In a few years many people will work from home and use Internet to meet and
talk to other in an office in eyberspace. And most people will probably have at least one
close friendship with someone that they've never met in the real world but only know
through the Internet. It con ;        awing. The net will soon be the most important way of

communication in the world when are "you" going on-line?

COMPUTER REVOLUTION

50

years ago people didn't even heard of computers, and today we cannot

imagine life without them.

Computer technology is the fastest-growing industry in the world. The first computer was the size of a minibus and weighed a ton. Today, its job can be done by a chip the size of a pin head. And the revolution is still going on.

Very soon we'll have computers that we'll wear on our wrists or even in our glasses and earrings.

The next generation of computers will be able to talk and even think for themselves. They will contain electronic "neural networks". Of course, they'll be still a lot simpler than human brains, but it will be a great step forward. Such computers will help to diagnose illnesses, find minerals, identify criminals and control space travel.

Some people say that computers are dangerous, but I don't agree with them.

They save a lot of time. They seldom make mistakes. It's much faster and easier to surf the Internet than to go to the library.

On-line shopping makes it possible to find exactly what you want at the best price, saving both time and money.

E-mail is a great invention, too. It's faster than sending a letter and cheaper than sending a telegram.

All in all, I strongly believe that computers are a useful tool. They have changed our life for the better. So why shouldn't we make them work to our advantage?

Vocabulary

computer technology [tek'nolad3i] компютерные

технологии industry [indastri] отрасль промышленности,

индустрия minibus [minibAs] микроавтобус to weigh [wei] весить ton [t/vn]' тонна chip [tjip] чип, микросхема pin head ['pin hed] булавочная головка wrist [rist] запястье

generation [,djen3'reijn] поколение

to contain [kantein] содержать

neural network [.njuaral пеглз:к] нейронная c№

human [hju:man] человеческий

brain [brein] мозг

step [step] шаг

to diagnose [daiagnauz] ставить диагноз

to identify [aidenfflai] опознавать

criminal [kriminl] преступник

dangerous [deinjaras] опасный

I.      Shops.

On-line shopping makes it possible to find exactly what you want at the best price, saving both time and money.

II.     Telephones:

Japan's biggest mobile-phone company released its cleverest product a mobile phone, the allows you to surf the Internet as well as make calls.

People are already using the phone to check the news head line, follow the stockmarket and download the latest jokes.

III.        Musical instruments:

Many performers use computer - controlled machines such as electronic drum kits to create special sounds.

IV.        Sports:

Computers are used to record times and scores at games and help the sportsmen with their training. For example, computers can measure how well an athlete's lungs are working.

V.        Television:

Computers are used to control much in television. Using date produced by computers, networks can make their decision about what shows stay on the air.

VI.        Video recording:

Computers change magnetic pulses on the tape into electronic signals that then turn into pictures you see on your TV.

VII. Banks:

Computers in banks can transfer money from one account to another. That's why it's very important for us to know everything about this clever machine