- •English for computer science
- •6.050101 «Комп’ютерні науки»
- •Unit I what is a computer?
- •Read and translate the text.
- •Match these words from the text (1-9) with the correct meanings (a-I).
- •Unit II
- •Inside the system: technical specifications
- •Read the advertisement and translate the technical specifications into your own language.
- •Read the text and then answer these questions.
- •What is inside a pc system?
- •In pairs, answer these questions.
- •Look at these extracts from the text. What do the words in bold refer to?
- •Unit III what is an information system?
- •1. Discuss the following questions.
- •2. Read and translate the following text.
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Are the statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- •5. Complete the following sentences from the words in the box.
- •6. Insert the necessary prepositions.
- •Transaction Processing System
- •Management Information System
- •Decision Support System
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Match the term with its definition.
- •3. Decide whether the sentences are true or false. Correct the false ones.
- •4. Here are the answers. Make up the questions.
- •Present the text as a diagrammatic display and speak about different types of information systems looking at your diagram.
- •Translate into English.
- •Unit V data and information
- •Try to explain how you understand the difference between data and information.
- •Read and translate the text.
- •The Quality of Data and Information
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Arrange the words in the correct order to make sentences.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.
- •Find the examples of different tense and voice forms of the verbs in the above text. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
- •Translate into English.
- •Source data automation
- •Vocabulary
- •Answer the following questions.
- •Open the brackets and put the verb into the necessary tense form (Active or Passive).
- •Expert systems. Office information systems. Executive support system
- •Expert Systems
- •Office Information Systems
- •Executive Support System
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Match the words with their definitions.
- •4. Insert the necessary prepositions.
- •5. Open the brackets using the present or past participles.
- •6. Answer the questions.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •Unit VIII
- •Information systems and databases. File storage
- •1. Think over
- •2. Read and translate the text.
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Here are the answers. Work out questions.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •Database models
- •Database Models Hierarchical Model
- •Network Model
- •Relational Model
- •Object-Oriented Model
- •Vocabulary
- •Can you define the following terms?
- •Choose one correct variant.
- •5. Fill in the gaps. Use the words given in the box.
- •6. Identify and describe the four database models presented.
- •7. Translate into English. Система керування базами даних.
- •Unit X ukrainian banner network
- •Read the word-combinations in the box below and put them in the gaps.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Read the text and make the list of "banner display" advantages.
- •Vocabulary
- •Correct the statements using the above text information.
- •Mobile internet
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit XII marketing on the world wide web
- •Have you ever heard of buying the product through the Web? Do you know anybody buying things though their computer? What are the people's impressions of this kind of purchasing?
- •Read the text and do the exercises below. Marketing on the World Wide Web
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit XIII
- •Internet
- •Read and translate the text.
- •Internet Facts
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Complete the sentences using the text.
- •4. Use the text to restore the situation for each verb form.
- •5. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •Unit XIV
- •Is technology making us ultimate strangers?
- •2. Read and translate the text.
- •Is Technology Making Us Ultimate Strangers?
- •4. Complete the sentences.
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Read the text again and correct the following sentences:
- •Vocabulary
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English.
- •Oral practice: careers in data processing (system analysts, programmers and operators)
- •If you are in data processing, what are the careers in this field? Can you describe your future responsibilities?
- •2. Read the text and make up a list of duties and responsibilities for each of the profession. System analysis, programming, and operations
- •The data processing manager
- •The system analyst
- •The computer programmer
- •The computer operator
- •3. Answer the following questions:
- •Oral practice: technical careers
- •1. Give the adequate translation of the following professions:
- •2. Match the above names of professions with the appropriate descriptions.
- •3. Make a written outline of your professional field duties. Use the prompts:
- •1. State whether the nouns in bold type are proper or common.
- •2. Explain the origin and the meaning of the following common nouns. Use them in sentences of your own.
- •2. Give the plural of the following nouns.
- •3. Consult the table and give the plural of the following foreign words.
- •1. Give the nouns of the opposite sex.
- •2. Explain whether the nouns below denote male or female people.
- •3. Read and translate the sentences. Explain how gender of the nouns is expressed in them.
- •1. Replace the of-phrase by the noun in the possessive case.
- •2. Add s/ 's/ s ' where necessary.
- •3. Paraphrase the sentences using the possessive case where possible.
- •4. Use the words in brackets in the possessive case
- •5. Translate from Ukrainian into English.
- •6. Translate from Ukrainian into English.
- •8. Insert more or less.
- •Adverbs of frequency
- •Adjective or adverbs
- •1. Put in the right word (adjective or adverb).
- •2. Work in pairs. Correct the order of words in these sentences.
- •1. Work in pairs. Use the pronouns in brackets in the proper form in the sentences below. There is an example at the beginning.
- •2. Work in pairs. Use pronouns instead of nouns in the sentences below. There is an example at the beginning.
- •3. Fill in the gap with the correct object pronoun.
- •4. Translate from Ukrainian into English paying attention to pronouns.
- •5. Circle the correct word.
- •6. Write in this or these.
- •7. Fill in the gaps with this, that, these, those.
- •8. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •9. Translate from Ukrainian into English paying attention to pronouns.
- •10. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •12. Work in pairs. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with the words from the box. Give several variants if possible.
- •1. Put the verbs in the Present Simple form.
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form. Yan is at a summer camp in Poland. Write what he usually does in the camp.
- •3. Put the verbs in the present form.
- •4. Complete the poem with ’m, end, go, have, is, is, start, starts, starts, watch.
- •5 . Translate from Ukrainian into English.
- •6. Translate from Ukrainian into English.
- •Underline the verbs in Past Simple.
- •Translate questions in Past Simple into Ukrainian.
- •4. Translate from Ukrainian into English.
- •1. Write in l’ll, we'll, he'll, she'll, they'll, it’ll.
- •2. Insert ‘ll or won’t.
- •5. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •6. Traslate the sentences.
- •1. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences. (since and for)
- •3. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •4. Work in pairs. Most of the sentences below have mistakes. Find and correct them.
- •5. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •6. Read and translate the following sentences Explain the use of the Present Perfect.
- •2. Read and translate the sentences Pay special attention to use of the Past Perfect in the subordinate clauses of time
- •3. Use the right form of the verbs in brackets
- •4. Read and translate the sentences Pay special attention to use of the Past Perfect in the subordinate clauses of time
- •5. Read and translate the sentences Comment on the use of tenses in past-time contexts
- •6. Use the right form of the verbs in brackets.
- •7. A. Which of the following things have you done by your sixteenth birthday? Use the Past Perfect tense to answer.
- •1. Read and translate the sentences. Comment on the use of the Future Perfect.
- •2. Work in pairs. Decide if the statements after each sentence below are true or false. There is an example at the beginning (0).
- •3. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •4. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. All sentences refer to the future. There is an example at the beginning (0).
- •5. Answer the questions using Future Perfect Tense and words in brackets
- •6. Make up sentences in Future Perfect.
- •7. Translate into English.
- •1. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
- •2. Read and translate the sentences Comment on the tenses in them
- •3. Read the text and retell it Find the cases of the Present Perfect Progressive and comment on them.
- •4. Use the right form of the verbs in brackets
- •5. Work in pairs. Decide which of the options (a) or (b) best describes the information in the sentences (1–8). There is an example at the beginning.
- •7. Translate into English using Present Perfect Continuous
- •1. Read and translate the sentences. Comment on the use of the Past Perfect Progressive
- •2. Use the right form of the verbs in brackets
- •3. Explain the difference between the following pairs of sentences.
- •4. Open the brackets using a verb in Past Perfect Continuous.
- •6. Translate into English.
- •1. Read and translate the sentences. Comment on the use of the Future Perfect Progressive.
- •2. Read the sentences and comment on the ways future actions can be expressed.
- •3. Open the brackets using Future Perfect Continuous.
- •5. Translate using Future Perfect Continuous.
- •Appendix 1: the most widely used computer terminology dictionary
- •Appendix 2: e-mail abbreviations
- •Література
5. Translate from Ukrainian into English.
1. У дворі багато піску, чи не так? – Ні, у дворі зовсім немає піску. 2. Підійдіть до дошки, візьміть губку і витріть дошку. 3. У будинку батьків нас очікував теплий прийом. 4. Його серце було сповнено любов’ю. 5. У парку ростуть старі дерева, чи не так? – Так, але там ще ростуть квіти, кущі, трава. 6. Це була чудова ідея – повечеряти у ресторані. 7. Тобі сподобався суп, який приготувала бабуся? 8. У нього на руці є годинник? – Ніякого годинника у нього немає. 9. Кава недостатньо солодка. 10. Джон любить на сніданок хліб з вершковим маслом і міцний чай. 11. Німці полюбляють сосиски з капустою, принаймні мені так казали. 12. Він часто надсилає нам листівки. 13. Давай покажемо йому сліди. 14. Він спробує подивитися фільм разом з нами. 15. Я хотіла б познайомити вас з батьками. 16. Ми б хотіли показати будинок друзям. 17. Вчителька любить загадувати загадки? 18. М’ясо віддамо собаці. 19. Тобі баранини чи яловичини? 20. Дайте йому ввійти до кабінету директора. 21. Познайомте мене з вашим приятелем. 22. Не треба прибирати квартиру. Вона її вчора прибрала. 23. Давайте прочитаємо текст на п’ятій сторінці. 24. У день, коли вони одружилися,
6. Translate from Ukrainian into English.
1. Які предмети діти вивчають у школі? 2. Попросіть перекладача містера Гакслі пояснити вам значення цього слова. 3. Де похований письменник Чарльз Дікенс? 4. Картерів не було на зборах? 5. Звідкіля родом моряк Джонсон? 6. Прем’єр-міністр Браун не піде у відставку. 7. Дядько Дональд вважає, що вони нас не підведуть. 8. У приймальні очікує якийсь містер Волтер. 9. Сьогодні Річардси вирушають у подорож. 10. Зателефонуйте Кемпбелу і запросіть його на вечерю. 11. Брат Алекс досяг значних успіхів останнім часом. 12. Джон прийняв запрошення від якогось містера Гакслі. 13. Сестра Керрі працювала зі знаменитою Джоан Бейз. 14. Джон записував самого Пола Маккартні. 15. Ви бачили Моніку Селеш на корті? 16. Це вже не та наївна й добра Гелен, яку він кохав багато років тому. 17. Де мама? – Вони із сестрою прибирають квартиру. 18. Тітка написала нам листа. 19. Генерал Роджер наказав відступати. 20. Дядько Джеймс був дуже здивований, побачивши Джека в автобусі. 21. Джона називають «татом Карло», бо він дуже працьовитий! 22. Це вже не та легковірна Джейн, над якою ми часто потішалися в дитинстві. 23. Поговори з сином. 24. Пілот Льюїс здійснив вимушену посадку – щось трапилося з двигуном. 25. Я чув, що ви збираєтеся купити авто. Поза сумнівом, це буде «Мерседес»
ADJECTIVE
1. Write comparative and superlative adjectives
1. clean _____________________________
2. easy _____________________________
3. good _____________________________
4. dirty _____________________________
5. fat _____________________________
6. beautiful _____________________________
7. sad _____________________________
8. flat _____________________________
9. active _____________________________
10. comfortable _____________________________
11. hot _____________________________
12. happy _____________________________
13. wet _____________________________
14. narrow _____________________________
15. big _____________________________
16. busy _____________________________
17. noisy _____________________________
18. dirty _____________________________
19. thin _____________________________
20. little _____________________________
21. bad _____________________________
22. few _____________________________
23. much _____________________________
24. many _____________________________
25. rich _____________________________
2. Complete the sentences
A.
1. I am ___________ (tall) my sister.
2. My mum thinks that cats are ___________ (good) pets than dogs.
3. Cycling is one of ___________ (dangerous) sports.
4. I want to have ___________ (big) car.
5. A blue whale is ___________ (heavy) twenty-five elephants.
6. You look ___________ (thin) last month. Have you lost weight?
7. Bicycles are ___________ (slow) cars.
8. She is ___________ (nice) person I know.
9. What is ___________ (good) film you´ve seen?
10. Computers are ___________ (cheap) mobile phones.
11. Is your brother ___________ (tall) you?
12. I think Spanish is ___________ (easy) Japanese.
13. Our dog is ___________ (nice) your dog.
14. Glass bottles are ___________ (good) plastic bottles.
15. I think Rafael Nadal is ___________(good) tennis player in Spain.
16. Sharks are ___________ (dangerous) other fish.
17. This situation is ___________ (serious) the last one.
18. He is ___________ (smart) his brother.
B.
1. A Mercedes is ________ (expensive) a Fiat.
2. Maradona is ________ (good) football player ever.
3. A swordfish is ________ (fast) a jellyfish.
4. Julio is ________ (friendly) Carlos.
5. Irene is ________ (clever) Silvia.
6. Comedies are ________ (funny) police dramas.
7. Pablo is ________ (big) Juanma.
8. Max is ________ (old) John.
9. Adriano is ________ (fast) Ronaldo.
10. My hair is ________ (long) yours.
11. A dolphin is ________ (intelligent) a shark.
12. Elaine is ________ (wise) her sister.
13. Tony is ________ (happy) Max.
14. Sandra is ________ (busy) Sam.
15. Skiing is ________ (dangerous) football.
16. This is ________ (narrow) of all roads in Málaga.
17. Health is ________ (important) money.
18. Those cakes are ________ (bad) I´ve ever tasted.
3. Fill in the sentences with comparative or superlative forms of an adjective.
1. Jeremy is 10 years old. Julie is 8 years old. Jeremy is (old) ____________ Julie
2. The Alps are very high. They are (high) ____________________ mountains in Europe.
3. An ocean is (large) _________________ a sea.
4. A Rolls Royce costs a lot of money. A Twingo costs less money. A Rolls Royce is (expensive) ______________ a Twingo.
5. William's results were bad. Fred's results were very poor. Fred's results were (bad) __________William's.
6. This exercise is not difficult. It’s (easy) ___________________ I expected.
7. The weather is not good today - it's raining. I hope the weather will be (good) ___________ next week.
8. People are not friendly in big cities. They are usually (friendly) __________________ in small towns.
9. In the government of a country, the President is (important) _____________________ person.
10. People say that Chinese is (difficult) ___________________ to learn than English.
4. Translate into English.
Старий, старіший, найстаріший, найстарший, мій старший брат, мій старий друг, далі, найдальший, найдовший, коротше, щасливий, щасливіший, найщасливіший, найкращій, найчорніший, довше, гірше, краще, тепліше, її найкращій друг, її молодший син, його старший син.
5. Open the brackets using necessary adjective form.
1. Which is (large): the United States or Canada? 2. What is the name of the (big) port in the United States? 3. Moscow is the (large) city in Russia. 4. The London underground is the (old) in the world. 5. There is a (great) number of cars and buses in the streets of Moscow than in any other city of Russia. 6. St. Petersburg is one of the (beautiful) cities in the world. 7. The rivers in America are much (big) than those in England. 8. The island of Great Britain is (small) than Greenland. 9. What is the name of the (high) mountain in Asia? 10. The English Channel is (wide) than the straits of Gibraltar. 11. Russia is a very (large) country.
6. Underline the correct variant of adjectives old, near, far, late.
Let’s take a later/latest train.
Computers are one of the latest/last discoveries of the 20th century.
Sorry I’m late — am I the last/latest?
That’s a further/farther reason to do it.
This poem belongs to his latter /later works. Jane is 2 years older/elder than Jack.
Jane is older/elder than Jack by two years.
My older/elder brother is 5 years older/elder than me.
Where is the nearest/next post office?
The teacher told us about the latest/last elections in this country.
The nearest/next house to ours is 2 miles away.
7. Open the brackets using necessary adjective form
Jill’s a far________ (intelligent) person than my brother.
Kate was the_________ (practical) of the family.
Greg felt __________ (bad) yesterday than the day before.
This wine is the ____________ (good) I’ve ever tasted.
Jack was the________ (tall) of the two.
James is the__________ (clever) of the three brothers.
If you need any ___________ (far) information, please contact our head office.
The sinking of Titanic is one of _____________ (famous) shipwreck stories of all time.
Please, send the books back without_________ (far) delay.
The deposits of oil in Russia are by far the __________ (rich) in the world.
Could you come a bit _______ (early) tomorrow?
I like this song _________ (well) than the previous one.
Which of these two performances did you enjoy ________ (much)?
The fire was put out _________ (quickly) than we expected.