The Internet: is it always safe?

At present we cannot imagine our life without the Internet. The Internet is necessary for each person. It is an integral part of our life. All people use the Internet on different purposes: for dialogue, for searching the information, for work, for studying, for fun and entertainment. We search something with the help of the searching engine. I think that the most important problem of the Internet is the addiction of people to it. Some people surf the Internet for many days and forget about their relatives and real life.

Nevertheless the Internet has many pluses. By means of the Internet it is possible to meet new friends, to communicate with them.You can find any information, learn main news.

Meanwhile the Internet has minuses. These are viruses. And as I have already mentioned, it`s The Internet addiction, which breaks people`s life. Also sometimes the speed of the Internet is very low, so it`s impossible to use it in an effective way.

As for me, the Internet is a dialogue, searching for various information. The Internet is very important and also it is a necessary thing.

U N I T 3

TOPIC: WHAT IS ECONOMICS? TEXT A TEXT B TEXT C TEXT D GRAMMAR: The Past Indefinite Tense. The Functions of the Verb to do The Future Indefinite Tense. The Imperative Mood

Reading drills

1. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:

a) stress the first syllable:

necessary, possible, business, labour, spending, politics, science, careful, satisfy, effort, taxes, government, relatively, scarce, living, utilizing;

b) stress the second syllable:

unfortunately, define, mankind, produce, production, exchange, activity, consumption, description, psychology, effect, competing, determine, unlimited, inflation, concern, resources, pretend, attempt;

c) stress the third syllable:

economics, economic, distribution, international, interaction, sociology, unemployment.

Text A

Studying economics for the first time, it is necessary to know what economics is all about¹. Unfortunately, it is not possible to define the subject by a single word. Economics was defined as the study of mankind in the everyday business life. This means that economics deals with production, distribution, exchange and consumption. It answers such questions as: How do we produce all the things we need? How are prices determined? Economics is also concerned with² unemployment, inflation, international trade, the interaction of business and labour, and the effects of government spending³ and taxes.

Economics does not stop with the description of economic activity because description alone leaves unanswered many important why and how questions.

Economics is a social science like history, geography, politics, psychology and sociology. It is the study of human efforts to satisfy what seems like unlimited and competing wants⁴ through the careful use of relatively scarce resources. Economists study what is or tends to be and how it came to be. They do not in any way pretend to tell what ought to be. People must make up their own minds⁵ about that.

Economics is therefore concerned with activities relating to wealth, i.e. production, consumption, exchange and distribution.

For our own purpose, we shall define economics as the study of man in his attempts to gain a living⁶ by utilizing his limited resources.