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Роздатковий матеріал до заняття №1
Computer applications
1 Match the pictures
Computers have many applications in a great variety of fields. Look at these photographs of different situations and match them with texts 1 to 4 below.
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Text 1 (not prime)
Computers can help students perform mathematical operations and solve difficult questions. They can be used to teach courses such as computer-aided design, language learning, programming, mathematics, etc.
PCs (personal computers) are also used for administrative purposes: for example, schools use databases and word processors to keep records of students, teachers and materials. Race organizers and journalists rely on computers to provide them with the current positions of riders and teams in both the particular stages of the race and in the overall competition.
Workstations in the race buses provide the timing system and give up-to-the- minute timing information to TV stations. In the press room several PCs give realtime information on the state of the race. Computer databases are also used in the drug-detecting tests for competitors.
Computers store information about the amount of money held by each client and enable staff to access large databases and to carry out financial transactions at high speed. They also control the automatic cash dispensers which, by the use of a personal coded card, dispense money to clients.
Airline pilots use computers to help them control the plane. For example, monitors display data about fuel consumption and weather conditions.
In airport control towers, computers are used to manage radar systems and regulate air traffic.
On the ground, airlines are connected to travel agencies by computer. Travel agents use computers to find out about the availability of flights, prices, times, stopovers and many other details.
2 Match these with the pictures.
Using an automatic cash dispenser
In education, computers can make all the difference
Organizing the Tour de France demands the use of computer technology Controlling air traffic
3When you read texts like these, you don't always need to understand every word. But there are words which you can guess from the context. Look at these words. Are they nouns (n), verbs (v) or adjectives (adj)?
1 workstation.... 2 data... 3 perform.. 4 automatic. 5 monitor..
6 financial..... 7 store... 8 connected. 9 word processor................ 10 large
4 ook at text 1 again and discuss these questions.
How are/were computers used in your school?
What other areas of study would benefit from the introduction of computers?
5 Learn basic words.
1) to perform mathematical operations – виконувати математичні операції;
2) 2)to solve difficult questions – вирішувати складні питання;
3) to rely on – покладатися на;
4) language learning – вивчення мови;
5) for administrative purposes – для адміністративних цілей;
6) to keep records of students – вести записи студентів;
7) timing system – система фіксування часу на перегонах;
8) to give real-time information – надавати негайну інформацію;
9) drug detection test – тести на виявлення наркотиків;
10) to store information – зберігати інформацію;
11) the amount of money – кількість грошей;
12) enable – сприяти, давати можливість;
13) aссess – доступ;
14) to carry out financial transactions – здійснювати фінансові угоди;
15) at high speed – на високій швидкості;
16) control the automatic cash dispenser – контролювати банкомати;
17) dispense – поширювати, видавати;
18) to control plane – контролювати літаки;
19) fuel consumption – споживання пального;
20) to manage radar systems – керувати радарною системою;
21) to regulate air traffic – регулювати повітряний рух;
22) control tower – контрольна вежа;
23) to find out above the availability of flights, prices, times, stopovers – взнати інформацію про наявність рейсів, про ціну, час, можливі пересадки.
6. Language work: The present simple passive
Translate from English. Example: Houses (design) … with the help of computer. Houses are designed with the help of computer.
Various terminals (connect) … to the workstation
Microcomputers (know) … as “PCs”
Magazines (typeset) … by computers
When a particular program is run the data (process) … by the computer very rapidly.
Hard disks (use) … for the permanent storage of information
The drug-detecting test in the Tour de France (support) … by computers.
All the activities of the computer system (coordinate) … by the central processing unit.
In some modern systems information (hold) … in optical disks.