LESSON 4. Data bases Task 1. Use the appropriate form of the verbs. 1.
I admit my mistake. (admit)
2.
We learn a lot about it. (learn)
3.
The wind blew last night. (blow)
4.
We meet in Prague. (meet)
5.
When she heard it she cries. (cry)
6.
I put the book on the desk. (put)
7.
Sue draws a cat with a pencil.
8.
We got the postcard yesterday.
9.
Finally, we have found the address. (find)
10.
I sat down on a chair and relaxed. (sit)
11.
He hits the ball and ran away. (hit)
12.
I tell you the time. (tell)
13.
I known you were right. (know)
14.
He understood what I wanted. (understand)
15. The teacher loses her temper. (lose)
TASK 2. HOME TASK. Work in small groups. Read this scenario and discuss possible solutions for each problem. A company has these problems:
Information takes up too much space in the office. (Set up database) It is difficult to find information on paper. (Set up database) Admin staff spend a lot of time entering data. Surely computers can do this? (OCR) They enter the same data into different spreadsheers. (Run reports) Copying and pasting data from spreadsheets into word processor documents is very slow
and doesn’t look very good. (OCR) Possible solutions: Scanning
Optical character recognition(OCR)
Set up a database
Run reports
Example: By scanning all your documents, you will use less paper.
