Task 2. Complete these sentences using the collocations studied during the lesson. 1. Thanks to Wi-Fi, it’s now easy to………………….from cafes, hotels, parks, and many other public places.
2. Online banking lets you……………………………between your accounts easily and securely.
3. Skype is a technology that enables users to…………………..…………over the Internet for free.
4. In many universities, students are encouraged to ………………..using PowerPoint in order to make their talks more visually attractive.
5. The Web has revolutionized the way people ………………-with sites such as Google and Wikipedia, you can find the information you need in seconds.
6. Cookies allow a website to………………on a user’s machine and later retrieve it; when you visit the website again, it remembers your preferences.
7. With the latest mobile phones, you can………………with multimedia attachments – pictures, audio, even video.
LESSON 15.
Read this scenario and discuss possible solutions for each problem. A company has these problems:
Information takes up too much space in the office.
It is difficult to find information on paper.
Admin staff spend a lot of time entering data. Surely computers can do this?
They enter the same data into different spreadsheers.
Copying and pasting data from spreadsheets into word processor documents is very slow and doesn’t look very good.
Possible solutions:
Scanning
Optical character recognition(OCR)
Set up a database
Run reports
Example: By scanning all your documents, you will use less paper.
LESSON 16. Write about database.
What is database? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Components of a database _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What is database management system? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Types of database _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LESSON 17.Answer the questions :
What is Data processing? __________________________________________________________________
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What data processing steps have you learnt? Describe each step ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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What software and hardware do you use in data processing? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What types of output is obtained in the result of data processing? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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