Agree or disagree with the statements

From the history of computer

Read and memorize the words

- significant

- amazing

- achievement

- to count

- to create

- to design

- to construct

- inventor

- capability

- to penetrate

- society

- to increase

Read and translate the text

The educated man of 200 years ago did not need to know anything about science. The educated man of 25 — 30 years ago did not need to know anything about computers. But the educated man of today needs to have some significant knowledge of science and a little significant knowledge about computers.

The computer is no doubt the most amazing achieve­ment of mankind. It is a date storage system created by man. A human tells the machine what to do, when to do it and how it should be done.

The word computer comes from a Latin word which means to count.

In 1833 an English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage, professor of Cambridge University designed the first computer. The mathematical programme for his ma­chine had been composed by Lord Byron's daughter.

The first programmer computer which operated success­fully was built in 1939 by H. H. Aiken, professor of Harward University.

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

Such computers as BESM, Minsk, Ural, Razdan-3, M-20, M-220, Nairi-3, Strela, Dniepr were created in our country.

Nowadays computers greatly increase man's thinking capabilities of planning, analyzing, computing and con trolling. Hundreds of computers are already in daily use. They penetrate almost into all spheres of our modern so­ciety.

Answer the questions

- What does the educated man of today needs to know?

- Is computer the most amazing achievements of mankind?

- What does the word “computer” mean?

- Who designed the first computer?

- When was the first electronic digital computer constructed in Ukraine?

Read and translate the international words

System, machine, computer, mathematician, professor, programme, electronic, academician, planning, analyzing, controlling, sphere.

1.5 Find in the text English equivalents for:

- цифровий комп’ютер

- англійський винахідник

- успішно діяти

- освічена людина

- дивовижне досягнення

- інформаційна система запам’ятовування

- сучасне суспільство

Agree or disagree with the statements

- Our life is impossible without modern inventions

- Computers have changed the way of our life

- Computer makes our life easier and more comfortable

- We can get all the information we need only through the computers

- Computers can do many things we do, but slower and worse. Everything should be in measure

Conversation

- Do you have a computer at home?(or Does your friend have)

- What company is you computer produced by?

- Who taught you to use a computer?

- Do you use computer when you do your homework?

- Have you ever studied English using your computer?

1.8 Fill in the gasps using the necessary words:

tubes	to create	tonnes
minute	university	electronics
event	machines	difficult
transistor	use	power

Early computers were very big and (1)________ to use and only a few people understood them. It weighed about 3 (2)______ and it was nearly 2 meters tall and 3 meters wide. Those (3)______ costed millions of dollars and only few big companies had them. It is still in the Seience Museum today.

The rapidly advancing field of (4)_______ led to construction of the first general - purpose electronic computer in 1946 at the (5)_______ of Pennsylvania. It was ENIAC, computers contained 18000 vacuum (6)______ and had a speed of several hundred multiplications per (7)______.

Later (8)_______ appeared. The (9)______ of the transistor in computers began In the late 1950s. It marked the (10)______ of smaller, faster elements than it was possible to (11)_______ with the use of vacuum - tube machines.

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