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B) Now fill in the gaps in this paragraph about computer uses.

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Unit 1

Computer applications

READING MATERIAL

T E X T A

Task

A) Tick the computer uses mentioned in the following article.

home hospital engineering shopping television advertising art banking libraries film-making schools

B) Read the text, translate it and get ready to do the exercises after the text.

Computers in everyday life

Computers are part of our everyday lives. They have an effect on almost everything you do. When you buy groceries at a supermarket, a computer is used with laser and barcode technology to scan the price of each item and present a total. Barcoding items (clothes, food, and books) requires a computer to generate the barcode labels and maintain the graphics produced by a computer. In hospitals, bedside terminals connected to the hospital’s main computer allow doctors to type in orders for blood tests and to schedule operations. Banks use computers to look after their customers’ money. In libraries and bookshops, computers can help you to find the book you want as quickly as possible.

Computers can help students perform mathematical operations and solve difficult questions. They can be used to ac

 

 

cess the Internet, 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.

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, and many other details.

Ex. 1. a) Match the places in column A with the computer uses in column B.

A banks factories homes hospitals shops B control machines calculate the bill look after patient records and medicines provide entertainment and information control our money

 

b) Now fill in the gaps in this paragraph about computer uses.

Computers are now part of our everyday life. In shops, they …. In factories, they …. In …, they look after patient records and medicines. When we have a bank account, a computer …. In our homes, computers ….

 

Language work: Articles

Ex. 1. a) Study these nouns: a supermarket, technology, a computer, money.

Supermarket and computer are countable nouns. We say supermarket and supermarkets.

Technology and money are uncountable nouns. They have no plural and you cannot use them with a or an.


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