- •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
3. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
1. She already recovered/has already recovered from her cold.
2. I haven’t been/was not to the new exhibit yet, but I hope to this weekend.
3. “Can I speak to Tony please?’’ – “Sorry, you have just missed/just missed him.” 4. The show has already started/has already been starting.
5. I have just got/just got off the phone with professor Brown.
6. Did/has Steve call/called you yet?
7. He’s only three and he has already been reading/is already reading.
8. I have just heard/just heard the news! Congratulations!
9. The potatoes aren’t/haven’t been quite ready yet.
10. Was/has the apartment already furnished/already been finished when you moved in?
11. Would you like a cup of coffee?” –”I have already been having/ have already had one.
4. Work in pairs. Most of the sentences below have mistakes. Find and correct them.
0 knows «Should I tell Kay?» – «She already has known.»
00 – Is it already 5 o’clock?
1. Has yet the new washing machine arrived?
2. Hurry up, we’re already been late.
3. It’s noon, and she’s only just got up.
4. You haven’t seen her yet, have you?
5. I did my homework before dinner already!
6. Have they say anything about the money yet?
7. I’ve noticed your new haircut just.
8. Have you been leaving already?
9. I’ve only just been passed my English test, so I’m still a little nervous.
10. I can’t believe I already forget his phone number!
5. Work in pairs. Choose the correct verb form in the following sentences.
1. Have you ever been / Did you ever go to England?
2. I don’t think I have never been / never was here before.
3. Were you ever / Have you ever been to a concert like this?
4. That’s the biggest fish I have seen / saw up till now.
5. I don’t remember I have ever heard / ever heard such a thing.
6. This year the standard of living has been / was higher than ever before.
7. This is the most difficult problem that many young people have ever had / ever had to deal with.
8. It is the best thing that has ever happened / ever happened in my life.
9. Scarcely anyone has gone / went there up till now.
10. There is no evidence that the accident has ever occurred / ever occurred.
11. When ever have you told / did you tell a lie?
6. Read and translate the following sentences Explain the use of the Present Perfect.
1. We live in the life that we have created. 2. Miss Lazy has hardly done any work this week. 3. I've said all I wanted to say on the matter. 4. Alan and Chloe are both down with the flu. Thank God I haven't caught it from them. 5. I think you've made a good choice. 6. Rick, I've just told you that we don't have a future together. 7. The country has made enormous progress this year. The Prime Minister has done so much good. 8. I've studied the last two faxes from Geneva and I've come to a decision. 9. You are my mother. I love you very much, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have done for me. 10. Wait, you haven't read the details. 11. You have become very dear to me, and in such a short time. I've fallen in love with you, Mary. 12. So the vendetta has finally ended. You have united the two families at last. 13. You've been generous beyond belief. Thank you. 14. Have you ever seen a ghost? 15. We've run out of sugar. Ask Mrs. Helpful to lend us some. 16. We have had some successes in tennis lately.
7. Translate into English
1. Фільм вже закінчився, і люди виходять із кінотеатру. 2. Він вже приїхав? 3. Вона його знає багато років. 4. Вона читала про них і давно хотіла з ними зустрітися. 5. Де ви купили цей чудовий сервіз? – Він у мене з дня весілля. 6. Ви вже розмовляли з ним? – Він приїхав учора і відразу ж зателефонував мені. 7. Вони коли-небудь були у цьому музеї? – Так, вони ходили туди, але дуже давно. З того часу вони його не відвідували. 8. Останнім часом я не бачу Джейн. Коли ти бачив її востаннє? – Я зустрічав її кілька днів тому. 9. Ви вже поснідали? – Ще ні, чекаємо на Боба. 10. Зазвичай на сніданок вона п’є тільки каву, але цього разу замовила бутерброд із шинкою. 11. Він працює тут з 2005 р. 12. Минуло вже два роки, як він повернувся із США. 13. Цього року ми надрукували багато цікавих книг. 14. Пройшло вже три роки, як вона закін- чила університет, і з того часу вона не пише, і ніхто її не бачив. 15. Виповнилося чотири роки з того часу, як вони виїхали. 16. Вона каже, що щойно телефонував її брат. 17. Вони перебили його, і тепер він не пам’ятає, на чому зупинився. 18. Вона дуже рада, що вони погодилися. 19. Вона сподівається, що він її не забув. 20. Він не був удома більше року. – Хіба він не був на дні народження у суботу? 21. Вона вже замовила таксі. 22. Він ніколи не телефонував так пізно. – Що трапилося? 23. Вони домовилися піти до кінотеатру. 24. Він дивиться телевізор уже дві години. 25. Годинник зупинився, заведи його.
Past Perfect
1. Comment on the use of the Past Perfect in the following sentences
1. The programmer had done the work by four o'clock. 2. The policeman asked if there had been any witnesses. 3. By the time we got to the shopping centre it had closed. 4. The students had written the test and were now checking them up. 5. Mike phoned Rosie, but she hadn'1 returned home yet. 6. We had discussed the news arid were now thinking about it. 7. She complained that she was penniless as she had spent all her money. 8. When I came back home, my family had already had dinner and were now watching the film. 9. It turned out that Dick was ill and he had been ill for a fortnight. 10. We learnt that they had been close friends for many years. 11. Hardly had I turned on the television, when I heard shocking news. 12. No sooner had he opened the door than the children rushed to meet him. 13. Scarcely had the inspector opened the envelope when he understood everything. 14. By next morning, the snow that had begun in the night had turned into a blizzard so thick that the last class of the term was cancelled. 15. She had a stock of excuses, as usual, when in fact she had overslept as usual.