- •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
8. Insert more or less.
1. People are______ intelligent than monkeys. 2. Summer holidays are ____ splendid than winter holidays. 3. Maths is _____ important than English. 4. Books are ______ interesting than films. 5. Writing in English is_____ difficult than speaking. 6. Parents are_____ helpful than teachers. 7. Reading is_______ useful than watching TV. 8. Food is _____ expensive than clothes. 9. Read the sentences. Choose the correct answer
1. Mike found himself а _______ job somewhere out of town.
a) safer b) more safe c) more safer d) safest
2. We prefer the Palm Beach though it is _______ from the center.
a) the farther b) farthest c) the farthest d) furthest
3. This detailed map is ________ the atlas.
a) more useful as b) more useful like c) more useful than d) usefuller as
4. Safari parks are ________ places of all to keep animals.
a) better b) the best c) most better d) more better
5. This computer is ________ advanced than the old model.
a) farther b) far most c) far d) far more
6. They talked about ____________ developments in agriculture.
a) the least b) the latter c) the latest d) the late
7. The situation is_____________ now and there isn't an easy solution.
a) less more complicated b) many more complicate c) much more complicated d) farther more complicated
8. People stay indoors during the _________ part of the day.
a) most hottest b) more hotter c) most hotter d) hottest
10. Translate into English.
1. Це яблуко краще, візьми його. 2. Текст 15 складніший за текст 14. 3. Цей відеофільм – найцікавіший за всі, які в мене є. 4. Гелен – моя старша сестра, а Тім – мій молодший брат. 5. Ця вправа простіша, ніж попередня вправа. 6. Яка твоя найулюбленіша книга? 7. Моя кімната менша за кімнати моїх батьків, вона – найменша у нашій квартирі. 8. Сіті – найдавніша частина Лондона, чи не так? 9. Книга довша і цікавіша за фільм. 10. Цей район гірший за наш. 11. Восени дні коротші, ніж влітку, а ночі – довші. 12. У нових районах вулиці ширші, ніж у старих. 13. Суп сьогодні смачніший, ніж зазвичай. 14. Твій брат найвищий у класі? – Ні, Джек вищий. 15. Січень і лютий – найхолодніші місяці, а липень і серпень – найспекотніші. 16. Цей переклад найгірший у вашій групі. 17. Це завдання, здається, простіше. 18. Центральна частина міста чистіша і більш приваблива, ніж околиці. 19. Ця кімната світліша, ніж моя. 20. Друга частина книги є менш цікавою. 21. Вітальня – найбільша і найзатишніша кімната у вашій квартирі. 22. Темза – найбільша річка Великобританії. 23. Чий комп’ютер дорожчий, твій чи Емми? 24. Це – найвіддаленіший район міста. 25. Книги у паперових обкладинках є найдешевшими.
Adverbs of frequency
1. Put the adverb of frequency on the right place
A.
1. He listens to the radio. (often)
2. They read a book. (sometimes)
3. Pete gets angry. (never)
4. Tom is very friendly. (usually)
5. I take sugar in my coffee. (sometimes)
6. Ramon is hungry. (often)
7. My grandmother goes for a walk in the evening. (always)
8. Walter helps his father in the kitchen. (usually)
9. They watch TV in the afternoon. (never)
10. Christine smokes after dinner. (seldom)
B.
1. He plays golf on Sundays. (sometimes)
2. The weather is bad in November. (always)
3. It rains in California. (never)
4. We have fish for dinner. (seldom)
5. She will see him. (rarely)
6. Peter doesn´t get up before seven. (usually)
7. They do not play tennis on Sundays. (always)
8. Mary watches TV. (hardly / ever)
9. I go to school by bus. (always)
10. I get up at seven. (usually)
C.
1. Charlotte goes to the pool. (sometimes)
2. It rains in Florida. (often)
3. I have a shower in the morning. (always)
4. I go to bed late. (always)
5. Rita goes swimming. (every week)
6. Michael travels by air. (often)
7. Frank does exercises. (every day)
8. Marta and Maite have lunch. (often)
9. Tony doesn´t get up before seven. (usually)
10. The weather is bad in July. (never)
D.
1. We go shopping on Saturday. (usually)
2. Marta has ice-cream for dessert. (usually)
3. I drive my car to work. (never)
4. My sister eats vegetables. (always)
5. He listens to the radio. (often)
6. Eli reads a book. (sometimes)
7. Rafa is very friendly. (usually)
8. Johann takes sugar in his coffee. (sometimes)
9. Marcelo and Giorgio are hungry. (often)
10. My grandfather goes for a walk in the afternoon. (always)
E.
1. Katy practices the piano. (regularly)
2. The children go to school on the bus. (always)
3. I´ll make that mistake again. (never)
4. Have you been to Japan? (ever)
5. We´ve been to Disneyland. (twice)
6. The shops are very busy. (often)
7. The newspaper is delivered. (daily)
8. We walk home from school. (every day)
9. I clean my bedroom. (every week)
10. Have you forgotten my name? I´ve told you already. (three times)
