Language development. 4. Fill in the gaps with the proper item from the text:

4. Fill in the gaps with the proper item from the text:

1. Technical experts say that _______ help children to learn much more quickly.

a) toys b) computers c) animals d) books

2. _______ of electronic computers is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.

a) purchase b) advertisement c) invention d) maintenance

3. The word computer comes from a Latin word which means to _______.

a) count b) make c) play d) enjoy

4. Computer technology is a rapidly growing _______.

a) enterprise b) industry c) economy d) factory

5. The _______ is no doubt the most amazing achievement of mankind.

a) airplane b) telephone c) automobile d) computer

6. Nearly one _______ and fifty years ago there were no such things as computers.

a) hundred b) year c) week d) month

7. A human tells the _______ what to do, when to do it and how it should be done.

a) relative b) book c) machine d) animal

5. Match the English phrases with their Ukrainian equivalents:

1. educated man a) система зберігання

2. significant knowledge b) технічні експерти

3. storage system c) ядерна енергія

4. electronic computer d) освічена людина

5. technical experts e) сучасне суспільство

6. modern society f) суттєві знання

7. nuclear energy g) електронний комп’ютер

6. Group the following words into three columns: nouns, adjective and verbs. Some of them fit into more than one column.

Man, year, know, science, computer, today, need, have, significant, knowledge, amazing, achievement, mankind, data, storage, system, human, tell, machine, do, word, come, mean, count, thing, rope, mark, clay, abacus, method, keep, track, inventor, mathematician, professor, university, design, build, money, analytical, engine, big, locomotive, death, scientist, improve, original, idea, physicist, forerunner, electrical, switch, click, slow, late, use, electronic, component, country, construct, academician, invention.

NOUNS	ADJECTIVES	VERBS

7. Find mistakes in the following statements and correct them:

1. The educated man of 25 - 30 years ago did not need to know anything about science.

2. In 1939, Harvard University physicist Howard Aiken built the forerunner of today's airplane.

3. In 1833 an English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage, professor of Oxford University designed the first computer.

4. The educated man of 200 years ago did not need to know anything about nature.

5. Knotted ropes, marks in clay, the abacus are all methods of keeping track of letters.

6. In our country the first electronic digital computer was constructed in 1950 by Russian Academician S.O. Lebedev.

7. If Babbage had been able to get enough time to build the computer, the analytical engine would have been as big as a locomotive.

8. Read the clues and complete the crossword:

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Across:
	An Electronic postal system.
	The object that is pressed to start a machine.
	A list of planned activities; a plan for future action.
	A secret word which must be spoken by a person before he is allowed to enter a computer.
	A set of computers that are connected to each other.
	Means or right of entering or using.

Down:
	The state of being wrong or mistaken.
	A small box connected to a computer by a wire which causes a cursor to move around on a screen so that choices can be made within the program.
	The machinery which makes up a computer, as opposed to the systems that make it perform particular jobs.
	The set of systems in the form of programs which is stored on the magnetic tape or disk and controls the operation of a computer.
	A record for playing, round and flat.

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