2. Make up a dialogue using the following questions:

1. Who in your opinion made the greatest contribution to the mathematics of the 20^th century?

2. What modern mathematicians do you know?

3. How has our life changed since you went to school?

4. Who invented the computer?

5. How did it change our life?

6. Are you connected with the Internet?

7. What do you use your computer for?

3. Working in groups discuss the questions:

1. Why is it necessary for children to study Algebra and Geometry at school?

2. How can parents encourage their children to take up Maths?

3. Are you a computer user?

4. What subject did you like most of all at school? Why?

5. Tell your classmates about your favourite mathematician.

4. Make a project on one of the following themes:

1. I wish I were a world-famous mathematician.

2. My favourite mathematician.

3. Maths in Russia. Its past and present.

4. Computers.

5. I want to become a good teacher of maths.

6. My favourite teacher of mathematics.

I want to be a programmer.

I want to become a computer programmer. Many people continue careers of their parents or grandparents but it is not the case with me. My mother is a teacher and my father is a doctor. But I want to be neither a teacher nor a doctor.

My favourite subjects in school were mathematics, physics, and, of course, computer science.

My hobby is computer programming and computer games. I have a computer at home and can spend hours working on it. It is much easier to do things on computer, for example to write a composition or to find information you need on the Internet.

I think that the profession of a programmer can give many opportunities. Information science with the ideas and message of processing and storing information is of great importance today. Computers are the most rapidly changing spheres of modern technology. We are living in the age of information. That’s why computer technology must be taught in secondary school. At present programming in our country is paid a lot of attention to by the government and much is being done to set up all necessary facilities for its development. The new subject “basic information science and computing machine” was introduced at schools. The pupils teach computers to investigate school problems. Contact with the machine increases the interest in learning, makes them more serious about studying new subject. In schools pupils can explore the Great Pyramid or study molecules from the inside. School computers are used not only for studying information science, but also examination purposes. Young people who finish school must be trained to operate computers.

I think that the future is just filled with computers. Today, in England or in the USA people can work, go shopping or even go on dates sitting at their computers. Today they form part of our everyday life. The latest thing today is Virtual Reality. A Virtual Reality system can transport the user to exotic locations such as beach in Hawaii or the inside of the human body. Already today Virtual Reality is used in medicine. In hospitals surgeons could plan operations by first “ travelling” through the brain, heart or lungs without damaging the body. It is also used in police training schools.

I think that the profession of a programmer can give many opportunities. We are living in the age of information. That’s why I decided to enter the university and study computer science.