Focus on language

1. Fill in the sentences with the prepositions if necessary. The text you have read may be of help.

a) The main idea behind the WWW is to make as much information as possible available … anyone.

b) Nowadays more people have easy access … the Internet resources.

c) The abbreviation HTML stands … HyperText Markup Language.

d) You can use this form to look … the pages of Popular Science magazine.

e) News Web pages provide their visitors … the most up-to-date information.

f) The 5-week WWW search course ended … a project work.

g) This small interest group will be very difficult to influence … public opinion.

h) Anyone can put anything … the Web for pennies in just a few minutes.

2. Look back in the text and find words and phrases that have similar meaning. Example: point and press - click

a) connect

b) assess

c) to invest time

d) to create a web page

e) check twice

f) to support some points of view or an idea

g) to read and correct

h) trustworthy

i) point to

3. Within 1 minute complete the word web below with as many adjectives as possible.

Project work

“The World Wide Web: the battle for your mind at your fingertips”

To achieve good results in studies it is important to have the ability to search and find relevant information and evaluate its quality.

You are members of team which is formed to work out the guidelines for

evaluating Web pages. The aim of the team is to help your fellow students to use the Internet resources for information retrieval.

1. Work in teams of 5-6. Within your teams divide into pairs and do research on the types of Web pages and their purposes; criteria for evaluation; search strategies/techniques and recommendations.

Study help When you present your oral reports, follow this procedure: a) one student introduces the group and gives an introduction to the work conducted by the group; b) the next few students present one or two of the points and some interesting comments; c) the last student concludes the presentation by summarizing and interpreting the information, e.g.: It surprised us to learn that …).

2. When your team meets again, share and summarize the information you have collected. Write the guidelines for effective information hunting. Use simple and complex instructions.

3. Prepare an oral presentation of your work. Be sure to include an introduction to the problem and a conclusion. Make use of the Study Help box.

In the Realm of Science

1. In the Internet and the WWW as well as in many other spheres of our life

there are a great number of symbols. Read and remember this

+ plus

- minus

~ tilde

% per cent

“” quotation marks

‘ apostrophe

: colon

* asterisk

() brackets

# lattice

@ at

& and

/ slash

. dot

2. Work with a partner. Look at the country codes in A. Discuss which countries the codes in A stand for. Match them with the names of countries in B and with the names of nationalities in C.

A	B	C
.sz	the Ukraine	Italian
.jp	Switzerland	German
.cz	France	Russian
.gr	Japan	British
.it	Czech Republic	Greek
.fr	Italy	Dutch
.ru	Sweden	French
.de	Russia	Japanese
.uk	The Netherlands	Swiss
.ua	the United Kingdom	American
.nl	Soviet Union (USSR former)	Ukrainian
.se	Denmark	Czech
.su	the United States of America	Swedish
.dk	Greece	Russian
. us	Germany	Den

Unit 1. Progress Monitoring In this unit you have worked on the vocabulary related to the topic “Information search”

to look for/hunt for information		search engine
to access/extract/retrieve information		search strategy/technique/tips
to evaluate/double-check a source of information		to establish validity/authority/ accuracy/objectivity
to put forward/advocate an idea		information literacy
copyright		to browse/a browser
available/relevant/up-to-date information		to search/conduct search
to proofread the material		to stand for

Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise.

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