- •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
6. Translate into English.
1. До шостої години вечора вони вже переклали третю частину книги. 2. На той момент вони вже дві години писали переклад. 3. До першого червня Рік уже повторив англійську граматику. 4. Учора до восьмої ранку Гай уже поїхав до Лондона. 5. Він дивився матч, доки не задзвонив телефон. 6. Майк вчився у цій школі, доки його батько не одержав роботу в іншому місті. 7. На той час, як він прийшов, вона розмовляла по телефону вже годину. 8. До дванадцяти він закінчив роботу. 9. На той час, як приїхала поліція, зібралася юрба. 10. Вони грали в шахи цілу годину, коли мати покликала їх. 11. На перше січня він займався боксом уже чотири роки. 12. Поки не приїхала дружина, він був невдалим підприємцем. 13. Перш ніж їхати до Пекіна, С’ю вивчала китайську мову й культуру. 14. Вони зайшли до кінотеатру, перш ніж почався фільм. 15. Вони обговорювали це вже години дві, коли у Тома з’явилася ідея. 16. Він дістався дому, перш ніж почався дощ. 17. Вона зробила усі вправи, перш ніж включила телевізор. 18. Вони вже обговорювали останні події, коли з’явилися діти. 19. Вона спала вже дві години, коли у двері хтось постукав. 20. Наша родина жила тут, поки не переїхала. 21. Перш ніж виїхати, він послав нам листа. 22. Коли нарешті з’явився батько, дитина спала вже дві години. 23. Він уже зібрався, коли довідався, що поїзд запізнюється. 24. Дощ ішов цілий тиждень, коли вона приїхала. 25. Неллі пропрацювала цілий ранок.
Future Perfect Continuous
1. Read and translate the sentences. Comment on the use of the Future Perfect Progressive.
1. Next year I will have been living in Moscow for thirty years. 2. Next month we shall have owned this house for ten years. 3. When he is forty, he will have been learning English for twenty five years. 4. By the time the manager turns up, the customers will have been waiting for him for several hours. 5. He complains that by May he will have been reading "War and Peace" for five months. 6.1 shall have been staying here just a year this July.
2. Read the sentences and comment on the ways future actions can be expressed.
1. Their plane arrives at two o'clock in the morning. 2. I'm away on holiday next week. 3. The sun rises at 5.30 tomorrow. 4. She's making a speech at the conference next week. 5. I'm going to town next week. 6.1 think it's going to rain. 7. Alison is going to enter the university this year. 8. This Saturday Nora will be celebrating her birthday. 9. We are to meet after lunch. 10. He is to be in court tomorrow morning. 11. Who is going to be the next to take the floor? 12. The new tax is to be introduced next week.
3. Open the brackets using Future Perfect Continuous.
By next week the group _________ (shoot) their clip for twenty days. By Easter Sandy and Malory __________ (work) together for 7 years. In some minutes, Fred _______ (wait) for 2 hours already. We’ll be halfway through our swim in an hour so we ________ (swim) non-stop for 48 hours. If Melissa is still on the phone at 5pm, Fred ________ (to talk) to her for over six hours. By the time Mike arrives, Megan _______ (read) the funny book for 4 hours. By July the Stevensons __________ (build) their cottage for a year. If nobody stops Fred, he _________ (grumble) till night.
4. Make up sentences in Future Perfect Continuous.
been / will / the New Year / a teacher / for / working / by / Andrew / have / as / 15 years.
for / Mark / before / will / been / at the conference / Moscow / leaves / working / he / have / for 2 days.
for / at Christmas / writing / will / she / have / her / new / been / novel / seven years?
go / the competition / for / their / before / training / have / they / to / coach / will / been / them / three months.