Exercise 14. Are you good at maths?
a) Do the following exercise. Fill in the gaps with correct words and numerals.
| .......................... | an hour | ||
| .......................... | a minute | ||
| There are | .......................... | in | a day |
| .......................... | a week | ||
| .......................... | a month | ||
| .......................... | a year |
b) Do the following sums.
| 3+4 = | 12+13= | 19-4= | 195- 70= |
| 5+6= | 14+15= | 18- 5= | 280-52= |
| 7+2= | 16+17= | 17 – 6= | 467 – 13= |
| 8+9= | 18+19= | 16 – 8= | 748 – 23= |
| 2x9= | 9x3= | 54: 6 = | 72:8 = |
| 3x8= | 8x4= | 18: 2= | 45: 9= |
| 4x7= | 7x5 | 21: 7= | 90: 6= |
| 5x6= | 6x6= | 15: 5= | 24:3= |
| ¼+1/4= | 1/3+2/3= | 69: 3= | 3/8 + 1/8 = |
| 1/5 + 1/5= | 1/8+3/4= |
Exercise 15. Read the following years aloud.
1066 1778 1804 1918 2005 63BC 1132 1559 55BC 1874 1246 925 718 1963 1799 1666 2000
Exercise 16. Practise reading the following dates aloud.
18.4.94 4.9.77 24.8.63 7.7.43 22.03.55 31.05.87 (GB)
4/18/94 9/4/77 8/24/63 7/7/43 3/22/55 5/31/87 (US)
Exercise 17. Speak about days and months.
Model: Sunday is the first day of the week.
March is the third month of the year. It’s the first spring month. It has 31 days.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Exercise 18. Speak about days and months.
1. В моїй групі дванадцять студентів.
2. Десять студентів брали участь у конкурсі. Троє з них отримали нагороди.
3. Скільки футів в одній милі? - В одній милі 5280 футів.
4. П'ятдесят шість робочих були звільнені вчора.
5. Він написав сто тридцять нарисів п'ятдесят два оповідання і сім романів.
6. Перше оповідання було цікавим. Друге було нудним.
7. Ця коробка важить дві третіх кілограма.
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8. Він вже написав три чверті свого нового роману.
9. Мені довелося чекати півтори години.
10. Паркан був заввишки в два з половиною метри.
11. П'ятнадцять годин очікування - це занадто багато.
WRITING
Imagine that you are to make a report on the topic «Advantages of graphical user interface». While preparing it use the main information from the text and write 15 sentences.
UNIT 7
APPLICATIONS PROGRAMS
Vocabulary Bank Unit 7
Read, write the translation and learn the basic vocabulary terms:
1) accounts
2) adventure game
3) animated image
4) ASP (application service provider)
5) beneficial
6) best-established area
7) broadband
8) bursting point
9) button icons
10) complexity
11) criteria boxes
12) data centers
13) default button
14) developer tools
15) Dot-matrix printer
16) DTP (desktop publishing program)
17) facility
18) flexibility
19) games consoles
20) high-end
21) image editor
22) leased line
23) mail merging
24) outsourcing
25) package
26) payrolls
27) PIM (personal information manager)
28) pitfall
29) prohibitively expensive
30) referred to
31) remote access
32) search criteria
33) simulation program
34) small business tools
35) spreadsheet
36) suite
37) to ensure
38) to fix
39) to handle
40) to manage the system
41) to run the application
42) word processor
Text A. APPLICATIONS PROGRAMS
Software is the word used to refer to programs (sets of computer instructions written in a computer language) and data that is input, processed and output by a computer system.
Applications programs are programs that allow the user to do various types of work on a computer e.g. wordprocessors, databases. A set of related applications programs is referred to as a package (or a suite). Common applications programs include:
| wordprocessors | for creating and editing texts |
| spreadsheets | for performing calculations using formulas |
| databases | for storing data so that it can be easily searched and sorted |
| graphics | for drawing |
| games | for playing fast action games |
| accounts | for keeping business accounts |
| payroll | for calculating salaries |
| presentation program | for creating multimedia slide shows |
| for sending electronic mail messages | |
| PIM (personal information manager) | for keeping track of appointments, address book, task list, etc. |
| DTP (desktop publishing program) | for creating publications to be printed by a professional printer |
| small business tools | for performing various business tasks |
| website editor | for creating and editing webpages |
| image editor | for editing graphic images |
| developer tools | for writing programs to add features to existing applications and creating integrated program systems |
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Some applications programs, such as wordprocessors, spreadsheets and databases, are commonly referred to as office programs because they are commonly used in a typical office. Office packages (or suites) such as Microsoft Office are sets of interrelated office programs. Different versions of office suites are usually available containing different combinations of programs. Mailmerging is a useful feature found in most office suites that combines a database with a wordprocessor document to automatically produce a copy of a standard letter for each record in the database.
A variety of computer hardware is used in the doctors' practice in this unit including:
| PC | common name for an IBM compatible personal computer |
| network | computers connected together. |
| file server | a powerful computer that stores and allows users access to data files on a network. |
| laser printer | a very high quality text and graphics printer that has a photosensitive drum that deposits toner powder on the paper |
| dot-matrix printer | a low quality printer that prints by hammering pins on the paper to print an image made up of dots. The hammering action means that it can print on special multipart paper where a number of copies are produced at the same time. |
| CD-ROM | a compact disk read only memory storage device that is cheap to produce and suitable for storing large amounts of data. |
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For example, the Patient Browser program (GPASS) is a type of database for sorting and searching patient records. To search, you select different option screens by clicking on a tab with a mouse and inputting the search criteria (details of what you are looking for) in text boxes known as criteria boxes. Different button icons can be clicked to perform different operations e.g. the Find button. The default button is the option that is selected automatically.
Tomb Raider is a popular adventure game that has appeared in various versions. The main character is represented by a female animated image, known as Lara Croft. The user follows a storyline in which they have to solve puzzles and control the movements of the main character, sometimes having to react quickly to avoid dangerous obstacles. It is available on well-known games consoles (specialized games computers) called Play Station and Dreamcast manufactured by a company called Sega.
Sim City is a simulation program (a program that simulates real life) in which the user has to develop a city by building roads and 3D (three-dimensional) buildings, setting taxes, etc. They also have to control objects such as simulated cars and people. The user can download (copy from a server computer) additional objects and swap items with other users using a special website.
An ASP (application service provider) rents applications to users i.e. instead of buying software, the user pays for using applications as and when they need them.
The ASP provides the software, manages the hardware and provides storage space, security controls and the physical links to customers. The ASP normally leases storage space for programs and data from data centers (facilities for storing large amounts of information) owned by data storage specialists.
The user is provided with remote access (accesscommunications network) to a wide variety of programs including: generic applications such as e-mail (electronic mail) and office suites, high-end (advanced) packages including large, complex business applications such as enterprise resource planning tools (e.g. SAP), business services, such as payroll and accounting systems, expensive specialist tools and e-commerce resources (electronic commerce - buying and selling on the Internet).
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This gives the user more flexibility and saves them having to install and maintain programs, upgrade (install newer versions of programs), deal with viruses (programs that can reproduce themselves and are written with the purpose of causing damage or causing a computer to behave in an unusual way) and manage e-mail systems (electronic mail systems).
Disadvantages of this system include: the need for a broadband (high bandwidth i.e. a connection with a high signal capacity network connection or a leased line (a cable connection that is rented for use in a communications system) and dependence on the ASP to provide a secure, reliable, readily available service.
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