Task 6.Match the appropriate definition for each word from the list below

Task 1 Read the text “Intranets and Extranets” and answer the following questions

1) What is an intranet? Which standards and infrastructure does it use?

2) What is the main intranet’s virtue?

3) What does an intranet provide employees with?

4) What is an extranet? For example, what can an extranet be used for?

5) What is a virtual private network? How does it work?

Task 2. Define whether the following sentences are True or False

1)An intranet is expensive but powerful alternative to other forms of internal communication.

2)An extranet is an ideal solution to providing information to a mobile sales force that needs access to rapidly changing information/

3)Performance must be good to provide quick response to customers and suppliers who use an extranet.

4)A rapidly growing number of companies offer limited network access to all customers and suppliers.

5)An extranet is built around Web technologies.

Task 3. Fill in the gaps.

Employee, slash, response, firewall, transfer, communicate, privacy, outsourced, access, streamline

1)User authentication and … are critical on an extranet so that information is protected.

2) Because Web browsers run on any type of computer, the same electronic information can be viewed by any ….

3)In using a VPN, a user sends data from his or her personal computer to the company’s …

4)Employees use an intranet to gain … to corporate information.

5)Magazine distributors use an extranet to … daily sales to retail outlets.

6) VPNs … information by encapsulating traffic in IP packets.

7) One of an intranet’s most obvious virtues is its ability to … the need for paper.

8)Corporations are seizing the Web as a swift way to … their organizations.

9)Obviously, performance must be good to provide quick … to customers and suppliers.

10)Companies that use a VPN from an Internet service provider have essentially … their networks to save money on network equipment and personnel.

Task 4. Find the words in the text according to their definitions

1) To experience something for the first time (par 1).

2) To send out (work, for example) to an outside provider or manufacturer in order to cut costs (par.5)

3) A set of related programs, located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks (par.5)

4) Synonym of important (par. 3)

5) The ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance (par.1,2,3,5)

Task 5.Discuss the following points

1)Nowadays more and more employees use an intranet for their benefit

2)What would become if privacy on an extranet becomes not critical?

3) Intranets and extranets are something new, which older people are not familiar with

4)If there are some problems with Internet and Web, intranets and extranets become useless

5)Intranets and extranets are the sure way to total computerization.

Task 6.Match the appropriate definition for each word from the list below

1)infrastructure	a. something handed down from from the past
2)virtue	b. the basic structure of an organization, system, etc.
3)legacy	c.advantage
4) outlet	d. a market for a product or service
5)meaningful	e.important
6)authentication	f. to change from one thing into another
7)to convert	g.the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be.

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