Topics for discussion

Exercise 1. Read the passage below and answer the question.

Before an image can be displayed on a computer screen or monitor, it must be created by a computer program in a special part of the computer’s memory, called a frame buffer. The frame buffer is usually located on the computer’s graphics card.

One method of producing an image in the frame buffer is to use a Nock of memory called a bitmap to store small, detailed figures such as a text character or an icon (small image). Frame buffer memory can also store other information, such as the color of each pixel.

Notes

frame buffer – буфер изображения, буфер кадра

bitmap – битовый массив

What kind of memory is used to display an image on a monitor?

Exercise 2. Read the passage below and give us more information about using computer graphics.

As recently as the 1980s, all the things that people built and used were originally designed with the use of rulers and other mechanical tools of the graphic artist. Today things are designed and built electronically with computers. The cars that people drive are designed on a computer screen and tested in computer graphics simulations. Before doctors perform surgery, they use computer graphics in looking at X-ray images of the patient. Photographs are used to be stored on film. Now photos can be taken with digital cameras and sent as attachments to e-mail messages.

You are most likely reading this text on a computer monitor. Today, almost all the things built and used in the world were originally designed with computer graphics.

TEXT 5

WORD-STUDY

Exercise 1. Check the transcription in the dictionary and read the words listed

below:

a) Nouns physician, unemployment, inventory, abundance, poverty, guidance, opportunity

Verbs outlaw, deny

Adjectives sensitive, intrinsic, unscrupulous

b) Pay special attention to the pronunciation of such words as:

robotization, realization, memorize, utilize, specialize, computerize, minimize, maximize.

Exercise 2. Read and translate the collocations below.

Unscrupulous charlatan, to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms, to be faced with decisions, to give a guidance, intrinsic power, to outlaw the interconnection computers.

Exercise 3.

a) Match the synonyms.

Verbs

1. reduce

2. deny

3. protect

4. store

5. expect

6. prevent

a) refuse

b) keep

c) carry

d) respond

e) stop

f) defend

g) decrease

h) hope

C) Match the antonyms.

Adjectives

1. obsolete

2. potential

3. beneficial

4. abundant

5. private

a) real

b) harmful

c) individual

d) public

e) sensitive

f) poor

g) contemporary

Scan-reading

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