COMPUTER COLLOCATIONS 11. Match the verbs with the words or phrases. How many collocations can you get? 1.torun a. program oe b, the hard drive 3. tosave | 4: tocorupt ae | 5.tosurf d. scandisk | 6.tosend e.an e-mail 1 7.toattach ' f.the Net 8. to reformat a. A virus can Sea of your computer, making all your data not available. b, My brother is an Internet freak. He spends hours ___ To register as a member of the forum you have to__ d.| need to e. Can you help me f. From time to time you should 2. Now use the collocations to complete these sentences: with your personal detail. ______to keep your computer healthy. COMPUTER BUZZWORDS 1. Here are some new words related to computer hardware and software. Can you match them with their definitions? combining text, images and links related to a particular topic. Postings appear in chronological order with the most recent ones coming first. 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T.have a screen shield a. to prevent leg swelling 2.use a paper stand b. to prevent backache i 3. keep your head straight to reduce muscular tension in your wrists} 4.use a footrest d.to prevent eye fatigue , 5. sit on an ergonomic chair e.toprevent neck ache 6. use an ergonomic keyboard f. to protect your eyes from screen radiation 7. sit straight on the chair g. tobe more comfortable Now write the recommendations starting with “You should/shouldn't a(22(9 6 (s ely al€. eesDeat Diaty: teal extracts ftom a teenaget’s expetiences in London, Read the diary entry and answer the questions below. Deat Diaty, Last night we wete watehing felly and, all of a sudden, the image and sound went off. My flat mate Greg was fuming and said it was time to change the TV. So, off we went this morning to the shop for what I thought would be a fairly simple buy. T was wtong} it took us 3 outs to get something Greg is happy with. Gteg kept tanting about wanting to get an HD Ready ‘one, which makes sense, as the counity is going fully digital by 2012, However, until today T did not know whet this meant. I leatnt a lot, and want to write it down as I'm sute itll be useful at some point. The whole thing isn't as simple as I thought: first, I needed fo understand the difference between traditional TV and DTV (Digital Television), In the first case, it is transmitted using ah analogue signal, while DTV uses digital signals, One of the oldest means of receiving DTV Cand TV in general) is using an aetial, This way is known as DIT Qigital Terrestrial Television), with DTT, viewers ate limited to whatever channels the aetial picks up and signal qualify will also vaty. Since pay-TV is becoming mote and mote populat, othet ways to receive digital television have been devised! the most common ate digital cable and digital satellite, But there are many more! I thought the torrent of information would stop there, but the shop assistant (BTW, he was as cute as it gets) went on and on.. He said that regardless of how viewets receive DTV, most will pick up digifal television through a set-top box, which is a box that decodes the digital signals info signals that analogue televisions can understand. These types of TVs ate known as DTV monitors GHD monitors in the case of HDTV). However, the one Greg got is called IDTV, since it has an integrated (built in) receiver. But that's not all. Greg's new scteen is iD and HD Ready, since the two ate hot exclusive, Standatd-Definifion television ot SDTV refers to television systems with a resolution that meets traditional standatds but not high definition’s ones, High-Definition felevision (HDTV) refers fo the broadcasting of television signals with a higher resolution than the traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow, Except for eatly analogue formats in Europe and Japan, HDTV is broadcast digifally, so its introduction usually coincides with the lqunch of digital television, This means that, once Hi- Definition TV is available in England, Greg will be able fo receive all the HDTV digitally, without having fo buy a new TV! HDTV was fitst introduced in the US some ten yeats ago, and it has seen developments all atound the globe. There wete talks fowatds an agreement on standards (formats) fo avoid yet another fragmentation of the global market (PAL, SECAM ahd NTSC, which curtently means that if you have a tape recorded in Ametica you can't watch it in England, for example). All efforts failed and thete ate nowadays three major standatds for HDTV: the Eutopean DVB system, the U.S. ATSC system, and the less populat Japanese system ISDB, Most countries in the world have adopted DVB, but sevetal have followed the U.S. in adopting ATSC instead (Canada, Mexico, South Korea). I spoke to my lechie friend and he fold me that there are Plans to bring HDTV to Atgentina but it's still uncertain when, Howevet, so fat, the ATSC is the most likely to be adopted. Our neighbour Brazil, affer long debate, officially adopied the Japanese system last June. China is developing yet another standatd, tentatively called DMB-T/H. All the techie data is vety intatesting, but, to the naked eye, the most obvious advantage of DTV is that it offen has a supetiot image, audio quality and better teception than the analogue one, which will only get better with the introduction of HD. Anothet hot topic telated is the launch of HDDVDs, which ate expected to have amazing picture quality. The downside of them, though, is that they have so mahy layets that one little sctafeh can tuin a whole movie! The lack of agreement between manufacturers (so fat;Tony’s Red Beam and Roshita’s HDDVD) brings the ptoblem of HDDVD butnets which can only suppott one brand. This means, if you buy a Tony HDDVD burner or playet you can only burn of play Red Beam's DVDs, Too much information for today, I think I'll go and have a hice cup of tea and a cheese toastie..ions will help you understand the text: n TV: alternative spelling for “High-Definition TV" DVB: short for Digital Video Broadcasting ISDB: Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB) is the digital television (DTV) and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) format that Japan has created to allow radio and television stations there to convert to digital. ATSC: Advanced Television Systems Committee, which, devised ATSC digital television HDDVDs: DVD with five times the capacity of a normal DVD. Where motion pictures are recorded, this is done in High-Definition Now it is your turn. What do the words in bold type mean? Choose the right meaning and provide a word for the wrong alternative. 1. Last night we were watching telly and, all of a sudden, the image and sound went off. Telly is: a) a piece of equipment that makes distant objects look closer. b) British informal word for television. 2. My flat mate Greg was fuming and said it was time to change the TV. To fume means: a) to be very annoyed or anary. b) to breathe in smoke from a cigarette. 3. Greg kept ranting about wanting to get an HD Ready one. To rant means: a) to talk or complain in a loud and rather confused way. 'b) to think for a long time about something 4, Pay-TV is becoming more and more popular. Pay-TV means: a)a system of paying for a TV set by a series of small regular payments. bb) a subscription-based television service 5. Other ways to receive digital television have been devised: the most common are digital cable and digital satellite. Digital cable means: a)a type of cable television distribution using digital video compression. b)a cable that is similar to another cable of the same type. ‘Byes 285049 (01 au) Fousna seb 3) bul Seb (6 “uepruIpa elueans (LS 6. BTW, he was as cute as it gets. BTW means: a) preposition that means in or into the space or time that separates two things b) by the way. 7. Greg's new screen is iD and HD Ready, since the two are not exclusive. Screen means: a) the flat glass part of a television or computer. bb) a loud high sound made with your voice. 8. | spoke to my techie friend and he told me that there are plans to bring HDTV to Argentina, Techie means: a) a person who displays a great, sometimes even obsessive, interest in technology. b)a skilled scientific or industrial worker. 9. Roshira's HDDVD brings the problem of HDDVD burners. Burner means: a) the part of an oven or heater that produces heat or a flame. b) the informal word for recorder. 10. | think I'l go!and have a nice cup of tea and a cheese toastie. Cheese toastie is: a) a cake made from a mixture containing soft cheese. bb) a slice of toasted white bread with cheddar cheese on top, put under the grill in the oven for a few minutes. usamiag (9 ‘snoBojeue (s (atuy) ued auewaersuytHe) asey>und any (p‘a1eUNUNs o1(g ‘a}oUS 04 (2 ‘adoDsej (1 ssaANeUsay]e BuOUN at 10} SPIOM 4(o1:9 (6218-81219 25 914" (Ee (2-91 oe souueO YoY OM OX FFDINTERNET JEOPARDY! Just lke in the famous TV programme, the students can compete to show their knowledge on computers. They will be divided into groups and each group will choose a contestant who will enter the competition. The teacher will have prepared a set of numbered envelopes in the form of an énswer. Each contestant wi { Adevice that allows computers to ! communicate with each other ovel i the phone It carries out all the functions needed to control the operations within it. It means a collection of graphics within a program. A ness that is returned to your e-mail address and does not reac the addressee. 3 It is what allows marking a page and then adding its URL to a list. 6 Hypertext Markup Language. 9 Itis the address that identifies a Web resource. Itis a communication tool that uses typed oid rather than Itisa device that stores information. Itis something used to connect peripheral devices to a computer. Itis called CPU. One of the systems that allows you tosend net from your computer to other computers. he software that lets a computer show Web pages and displays them on a screen. a It is the space your browser uses to store pages. is the text or graphic you click on tomake a fynestent jump to another page. 20 UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR. 3 Itis the legal protection for the author of a program forbidding thorised copies of software. Itisa small pe Tepresentation or symbol of a computer command or function. pick up an envelope and will give a response in the form of a question, (See suggested clues and model answers below). A cortect answer will win 10 points. The contestant whose score is the highest is the champion. The following are the suggested clues which will be placed in separate envelopes It is the brain of a computer. Itis used to store large aoe of information which will be used ! by a computer. Itis the starting point for browsing the Internet. Itis the eas in which the World Wide Web documents are written. Ithelps you find pages about specific topics. Itis a tool that allows you to hear and record sounds from the Internet. 24 Itenables you to manipulate, store, record, and retrieve data from a collection of related files. Itis an enormous network made } up of thousands of interconnected smaller networks throughout the entire world. 1. What is a MODEM? 2.What is a CABLE? 3. What isthe CPU? 44. What does the CPU do? 5. How is the Central Processing Unit called? 6.What isa CD-ROM? 7. What does CLIP ART mean? 8, What isan E-MAIL? 9. What is ELECTRONIC MAIL? 10, What s@ BOUNCE? 111, What fan INTERNET BROWSER? 12, What isa HOME PAGE? 13, What sa BOOKMARK? 114. What is CACHE? 15, What s HTML? 16, What does HTML mean? 17. What isa LINK? 18, What does a SEARCH ENGINE help you do? 19, What sURL? 20, What does URL mean? 21. Whatis REAL AUDIO? 1221 Whatis CHAT? 23. What does COPYRIGHT mean? 124, What does a DATABASE enable you to do? 25. Whats a DISK? 226, What is an ICON? 227. What does World Wide Web stand for?