Ex. 2. Give the English equivalents to the following Ukrainian words and word combinations in the box.
| Обмін інформацією; негайний (майже миттєвий); складати письмову угоду; надсилати скарги; багатосторінкові документи; дані та програми; за останні роки; доставка триває … (днів); доступ у всесвітню комп’ютерну мережу; термінові поштові відправлення; створити надшвидку мережу (“трубопровід”); як додаток; технічні характеристики різноманітних товарів; забезпечувати електронними послугами зв’язку; на це потрібно … (годин); порівняно дешевий;через (за допомогою) модема; ділитися інформацією; друкований лист (документ); ціна однієї телефонної розмови; повідомлення пересилаються через e-mail; додаткові п’ять доларів за терміновість; поширювати інформацію; звичайна плата за пересилання поштою; судові комісії; доставку здійснює приватна фірма; надсилати запити (замовлення) та пропозиції. |
Ex. 3. Complete the sentences below using the words from the box. The number of the words is bigger than the number of the sentences.
| Transmit, access, complaints, data, exchange, run, communication, mainland, expanding, sole, resorting, crisscrosses, agencies, computers. |
1) That’s not difficult of ____ to the program.
2) ____ are electronic devices which store information on.
3) She asked to _____ the message by e-mail because it was urgent.
4) The corporation has _____ in all parts of Europe.
5) These networks create a superfast pipeline that ____ the world.
6) Traditional means of _____ are letters and telegrams.
7) Customers often send their ____ to the Arbitration Commission.
8) Recently a good deal of not only business persons, but ordinary people have been able to afford ___ to the Internet.
9) Companies and ___ traders make contracts and transmit money and for these purposes different kinds of communication are used.
10) To-day people cannot imagine life without daily ____ of information.
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Ex. 4. Talking point:
How are developments in communications changing the way we live, work, relax?
Ex.5. Think and say:
What is the oldest and most traditional means of communication&
How often do you send (receive) correspondence?
Ex. 6.Read text A again and explain the meaning of the expressions: surface mail; airmail; express mail, courier mail; e-mail.
Ex.7. Reading text A find the English equivalents for Ukrainian words: дешевий, коштовний, швидкий, терміновий. Make their comparative and superlative forms.
Ex.8. Try to guess the meanings of the words: a charge, comparatively, via.
Ex. 9. Match the words from the passage in list A with their meanings in passage B.
A. Parcel, mail, address, receipt, stick, valuable, signature, trace, recipient, postage.
B. – a person’s name written by himself;
- government system of delivering letters, parcels, etc.;
- details of where a person can be found;
- paying for the carrying of letters, etc.;
- of great worth or use;
- a written statement that something (money or goods) has been received;
- follow or discover something;
- thing(-s) wrapped and tied up for sending by post;
- a person who receives something;
- be or become joined or fastened with paste or glue.
Postal Services
We can’t imagine our life without postal services. The post-office delivers and collects our mail, and delivers newspapers and magazines every day.
If we want to post a letter and have no envelope we should go to the post-office to buy one. We should come up to the window marked “Stamps and envelopes”, buy an envelope and stamp, stick the stamp on the envelope, write the recipient’s and the sender’s addresses and drop the letter into the mail-box.
The postage of the letter depends on the type of the letter. Letters can be inland, foreign, local, registered and ordinary.
If we want to send something valuable we should post it by a registered letter. Then we should come up to the window marked “ Registered letters” and hand the letter to the clerk. The clerk will register the letter and write out a receipt. With the receipt you can trace the letter in case it is not delivered to the addressee.
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At the general post office there are also windows marked “Post Restante”,”Parcels and Book-Parcels”, “Telegrams” and “Money Orders”.
If the postman can’t find the addressee and there is no sender’s address on the letter then the letter goes to the “Dead Letters” box.
To send a parcel we should go to the ”Parcels” window, take a special form, fill it in and give the parcel and the form to the clerk. The clerk will weigh the parcel on the scales and write out a receipt. The postage of the parcel depends on its weight, distance and insurance.
If some money order is sent to us then the postman drops the notification card into the letter-box. We go to the post-office, fill in the notification card (our passport or some other ID data, the sum of money we receive, the date) and give it together with the ID to the clerk. Of course we should put our signature on the notification card.
NOTES:
| (to) hand (v) | передавати |
| Post Restante (letter) | (лист) до запитання |
| registered letter | Рекомендований лист |
| surface(n), (adj) | Поверхня; наземний |
| (to) trace (v) | Відслідковувати, відстежити |
| (to) weigh (v) | Зміряти вагу, зважувати |
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