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B. Look at the text again and discuss these questions.

Work in groups. One person chooses a type of computer, the other ask | Read the text and label the diagram with the correct terms. | Compare your answers with other students. | Look at the statements (1-7) and correct the ones which are wrong. | Quality costs level | Technical details | Optical disks and drives | Read the text again and summarize in the table the most relevant information. | Read the text and find definitions of these items. | About your daily routine. |


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1. How are/were computers used in your school?

2. What other areas of study would benefit from the introduction of computers?

 

 

Language work: Articles

Study these nouns.

a supermarket technology a computer money

Supermarket and computer are countable nouns.

We say a supermarket and supermarkets.

Technology and money are uncountable nouns.

They have no plural and you cannot use them with a or an.

Study this paragraph.

Computers have many uses. In shops a computer scans the price of each item.

Then the computer calculates the total cost of all the items.

We use a plural noun with no article, or an uncountable noun, when we talk

about things in general.

Computers have many uses.

Information technology is popular.

We use a/an when we mention a countable noun for the first time.

In shops a computer scans the price of each item.

When we mention the same noun again, we use the.

The computer calculates the total cost.

We use the with countable and uncountable nouns to refer to specific things.

The price of each item.

The total cost of all the items.

The speed of this computer.

 

Here are some common nouns in computing. With the help of the dictionary

Divide them into countable and uncountable nouns. In most dictionaries nouns are

Marked C for countable and U for uncountable.


1. capacity

4. data

7. device

10. disk


2. memory

5. monitor

8. mouse

11. software


3. drive

6. speed

9. port

12. modem



 

6. Complete these texts with a/an, the (or nothing at all) as necessary.

 

The Walsh family have (1) ______ computer at home. Their son uses (2)

______ computer to help with (3) ______ homework and to play (4) ______

computer games. Their student daughter uses (5) ______ computer for (6) ______

projects and for (7) ______ email. All (8) ______ family use it to get (9) ______

information from (10) ______ Internet.

 

I use (1)______ computers to find information for (2)______ people. Readers

come in with a lot of queries and I use either our own database or (3)______ national

database that we’re connected to to find what they want. They might want to know

(4) ______ name and address of (5) ______ particular society, or last year’s accounts

of a company and we can find that out for them. Or they might want to find

(6)______ particular newspaper article but they don’t know (7) ______exact date it

was published so we can find it for them by checking on our online database for

anything they can remember: (8) ______ name or the general topic. And we use (9)

______ computers to catalogue (10) ______ books in (11) ______ library and to

record (12) ______ books that (13) ______ readers borrow.

 

7. Write a list of as many uses of the computer, or computer applications, as you

Can think of.

 


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