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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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| Possible uses. | | | Read the text and match these names to the different types of computer. |